Former National Security Adviser Calls for Pollard Clemency
From JTA on 2/16/2012 at 2:52 PM
Categories: Israel, United States
Robert McFarlane, who served as National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan, has called on President Obama to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard. McFarlane wrote in a Feb. 9 letter to President Obama that an affidavit filled by then Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, which is often cited as the reason for Pollard's continued incarceration, was "surely inspired in large part by his deeply held animus toward the State of Israel." "His extreme bias against Israel was manifested in recurrent …More


