You obviously didn’t read what I wrote. The problem is that neither you, nor I, truly know what the extent of Pollard’s crime was. Neither of us (nor, I suspect does anyone on this board) know what truly passed to other parties, to what other parties that information ended up being passed to, or what the damage was to U.S. interests and the intelligence community. You can’t say that his sentence was too long (or too short, for that matter) because you don’t know what the consequences of his actions were. Neither do I.
It’s easy to say that other people who passed information to allies got shorter sentences. But that could also be because the damage they caused to the intelligence community was far less. It could also be that you’re right and that his sentence is disproportionate to the crime and the damage — but none of know that — and we’re not likely to find out anytime soon either.
The Wolf