Dozens of members of the United States House of Representatives, most of them Democrats and some of them close to President Barack Obama, have signed a petition calling for immediate clemency for Jonathan Pollard, according to a Friday report by the Ma'ariv daily. Pollard is serving a life sentence for passing classified information to Israel.
On Thursday, former assistant defense secretary Lawrence Korb continued his call for Pollard to be released, saying that the information at Pollard's disposal is of little importance and that the conditions that led to the life sentence are irrelevant.