Bush Urged To Free
Jonathan Pollard
The president is the convicted spy's last hope
following the Supreme Court's decision not to
consider his appeal.
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IRA RIFKIN AND JAMES BESSER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
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upporters of Jonathan
Pollard are pinning
their hopes on
President George Bush now
that the U.S. Supreme court
has declined to consider the
convicted spy's appeal for a
new trial.
On Tuesday, the court, ac-
ting without comment, listed
the Pollard case among some
250 appeals that it will not
take up during its current
term. The High Court's re-
jection leaves Pollard sup-
porters with no remaining
legal option other than to try
for a presidential commuta-
tion of Mr. Pollard's life
sentence to time already
served.
In an interview, Carol
Pollard urged Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin to
ask the president to com-
mute her brother's sentence.
"Rabin should be the one
to ask," Ms. Pollard said. "If
he asks he will not be refus-
ed. The Pollard affair was
never just about Jonathan.
It was part of a period of
hostility toward Israel (on
the part of U.S. officials) that
should be put to rest.
"Bush can now do that,"
she said.
Mr. Pollard has already
served nearly seven years in
prison, five of them in soli-
tary confinement. The 36-
year-old Mr. Pollard was
sentenced after admitting he
passed American military
secrets to Israel while he
worked for U.S. Naval intel-
ligence in the early 1980s.
At least some of the infor-
mation Mr. Pollard passed
along concerned Arab
chemical and biological
weapon capabilities. His
supporters say that informa-
tion helped Israel im-
measurably during the Per-
sian Gulf War, and that
Jews should regard him as a
Zionist hero.
In an effort to avoid arrest,
Mr. Pollard sought refuge in
the Embassy of Israel in
Washington, D.C., but was
turned away. More recently,
however, Israeli officials
have sought to secure Mr.
Pollard's release. This past
summer, Prime Minister
Rabin reportedly discussed
Mr. Pollard's case with the
president when the two men
met in Kennebunkport,
Maine.
Mr. Bush also told a group
of Jewish journalists
meeting with him at the
White House recently that
he could not consider Mr.
Pollard's case until all court
proceedings had been con-
cluded, which is now the
case. The president,
however, did not indicate
that he would actually con-
sider commutation.
Theodore B. Olson, Mr.
Pollard's attorney, said at a
news conference in Wash-
ington held just hours after
the court's decision was
made known that unnamed
White House officials have
Mr. Pollard has
already served
nearly seven years
in prison, five of
them in solitary
confinement.
already been advised that a
formal request for commuta-
tion will be filed.
Mr. Olson said he planned
on filing the formal request
prior to the Nov. 3 election.
Ms. Pollard left no doubt
that the Pollard camp hopes
that President Bush will
commute Mr. Pollard's
sentence if only to snare ad-
ditional Jewish votes in his
quest for a second term.
"The political pressure of
the moment works in our
favor," she said. "We have
1.5 million names on our
petitions on behalf of
Jonathan. If Bush commuted
Jonathan's sentence a lot of
people would look upon him
like he's a rnentsh."
Mr. Olson said he spoke
with Mr. Pollard, who is be-
ing held at the maximum
security federal prison in
Marion, Ill., shortly after the
court announced its inten-
tion. Mr. Pollard, he said,