Malcolm: What About Jonathan Pollard?

Hoenlein: Franklin Sentence ‘Disturbing’

Excerpts;

“American Jewish leader Malcolm Hoenlein on Sunday blasted the sentence handed down two days earlier to the Pentagon analyst who admitted passing on classified information to Israeli diplomats and pro-Israel lobbyists.”

“Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, labeled the ruling “disturbing,” a comment greeted by applause from the audience to whom he spoke about US-Israel relations at the Interdisciplinary Center’s Herzliya Conference.”

“The former analyst, Larry Franklin, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for three counts of conspiring to communicate national defense information unlawfully. The sentence was part of a plea bargain between Franklin and the prosecution in which he agreed to testify against two staffers of the pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, whose trial begins in late April. “

Commentary;

Malcolm, why were/are you not similarly disturbed by the treatment and life prison term of Jonathan Pollard? And why did you keep your conversation with William Tenet (Tenet allegedly denied to Hoenlein that he threatened to resign if Clinton released Pollard as part of a Wye agreement with Bibi — Arutz-7, June 25 2004) a secret until Tenet’s retirement? Why do you appear complicit in Pollard’s continuous incarceration? Why are you silent on Jonathan Pollard, while professing to be disturbed about the AIPAC employees? MB