GI Pleads Guilty to Spy Charges
Peri received a 30-year sentence, less 5 years for good behavior, for providing top secret U.S. military plans to East Germany.
Jonathan Pollard received a life sentence, without possibility for parole, for selling intelligence information to Israel, one of our closest allies.
Why the drastic discrepancy between the sentences? How can Pollard’s crime possibly be worse than Peri’s? The severity of Pollard’s sentence demands our insistence upon a public retrial.
MICHAEL S. CHERRY
Laguna Hills
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