The man nominated by US President George Bush on Tuesday to be the new head of America's Central Intelligence Agency, Representative Porter Goss (R-Fl.), has been a fierce opponent of the release of imprisoned Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard.
Goss, a former CIA operative and chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, was among the authors of an unprecedented 1999 proposed House Resolution specifying that "Jonathan Jay Pollard should serve his full sentence of life imprisonment and should not receive pardon, reprieve, or any other form of executive clemency from the President of the United States."
At the time, Goss was quoted as saying, "He is one of the worst traitors in our nation's history. There is absolutely no reason to let this guy out of jail. None."
The "Pollard Bill" is currently still in committee.
Jonathan Pollard, declared a citizen of Israel and formally recognized as an agent of the state, is in his nineteenth year of a life sentence in Butner, North Carolina on charges of "passing classified information to a US ally" (Israel). A civilian American Naval intelligence analyst in the mid-1980s, Pollard discovered that information vital to Israel's security was being deliberately withheld by certain elements within the US national security establishment and he acted to transfer that data to Israel.
For a reply to the claim that Pollard is a "traitor", please see http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=4035.
Goss, a former CIA operative and chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, was among the authors of an unprecedented 1999 proposed House Resolution specifying that "Jonathan Jay Pollard should serve his full sentence of life imprisonment and should not receive pardon, reprieve, or any other form of executive clemency from the President of the United States."
At the time, Goss was quoted as saying, "He is one of the worst traitors in our nation's history. There is absolutely no reason to let this guy out of jail. None."
The "Pollard Bill" is currently still in committee.
Jonathan Pollard, declared a citizen of Israel and formally recognized as an agent of the state, is in his nineteenth year of a life sentence in Butner, North Carolina on charges of "passing classified information to a US ally" (Israel). A civilian American Naval intelligence analyst in the mid-1980s, Pollard discovered that information vital to Israel's security was being deliberately withheld by certain elements within the US national security establishment and he acted to transfer that data to Israel.
For a reply to the claim that Pollard is a "traitor", please see http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=4035.