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Sunday, July 24, 2016
Pollard Asks N.Y. Judge to Void Restrictive Probation Conditions

Pollard Asks N.Y. Judge to Void Restrictive Probation Conditions
Pollard's lawyer argued in court that the parole commission imposed
arbitrary requirements that he wear an electronic tracking device and submit
his work computer to monitoring.
Nate Raymond Jul 22, 2016 11:44 PM
http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/americas/1.732817

REUTERS - Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy U.S intelligence officer
convicted of spying for Israel, asked a judge on Friday to overturn
restrictive probation conditions imposed when he was released in November
after serving 30 years in prison.

Eliot Lauer, Pollard's lawyer, argued in federal court in Manhattan that the
U.S. Parole Commission had imposed arbitrary requirements that he wear an
electronic tracking device and submit his work computer to monitoring.

Those conditions were based partly on the grounds that Pollard could still
disclose government secrets, which Lauer called inconceivable as his client
would need to remember classified information from more than 30 years ago.

The information is ridiculously stale, and it's the type of information that
no human being could reasonably recall," Lauer told U.S. District Judge
Katherine Forrest.

By leaving the computer restriction in place, Lauer said Pollard was being
prevented from taking an investment firm job.

But a prosecutor pointed to a letter by U.S. Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper stating that documents compromised by Pollard
remain classified at the levels of "top secret" and "secret."

"They do pose a current harm to national security if they are disclosed
further," Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Sol Tinio told the court.

She also said the commission rightly concluded Pollard was a flight risk
given he had repeatedly expressed the wish to move to Israel, where his wife
lives. Pollard was granted Israeli citizenship in prison and Israel had long
pushed for his release. As part of his parole, Pollard must remain in the
United States for five years.

Forrest said she planned to rule within four weeks.

Pollard, 61, pleaded guilty in 1986 to conspiracy to commit espionage in
connection with his providing Israeli contacts hundreds of classified
documents he had obtained as a Naval intelligence specialist in exchange for
thousands of dollars.

He was sentenced in 1987 to life in prison. After serving 30 years, which
included time in custody following his 1985 arrest, Pollard was released on
parole on November 20 from a federal prison in North Carolina and now lives
in New York.

Friday's proceedings were the second time Pollard challenged his parole
conditions in court.

In December, Forrest ordered the U.S. Parole Commission to provide further
justification for the tracking device and computer monitoring. The
commission in March upheld the conditions while providing further reasoning.

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