We urge President Obama to use his Constitutional power to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard.The push for clemency follows the release of a recently declassified 1987 CIA damage assessment, which reveals that Pollard never sought to disclose information on the U.S. but rather only on Israel’s enemies.
In 1985, Pollard was indicted on the single count of passing classified information to Israel, a U.S. ally, without intent to harm the U.S. Based on a 1983 Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Israel, Israel was legally entitled to this intelligence.
Pollard never had a trial but received a life sentence with a recommendation that he never be paroled.
Pollard has served nearly 3 decades of his life sentence.