Leaders of the US intelligence community have petitioned against easing the parole conditions of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, on the grounds that doing so would breach national security, while others have called for his sentence to be commuted.
Pollard will speak to members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in New York City, on the topic of his legal battle to ease the conditions of his parole.
After a brutal 30-year incarceration, Jonathan Pollard left his US Federal Correction facility in Butner, North Carolina with his wife Esther to begin his life anew in New York.
At this year’s White House menorah lighting, President Obama announced the release of Alan Gross from a Cuban prison, but he remains silent on Jonathan Pollard.
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