REAGAN'S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR SLAMS WEINBERGER FOR HIS "EXTREME BIAS AGAINST ISRAEL;" CALLS POLLARD'S LIFE SENTENCE A "GREAT INJUSTICE"
Former National Security Advisor Robert C. "Bud" McFarlane, who served under President Ronald Reagan from 1983-1985, recently wrote to President Obama and asked that he commute Jonathan Pollard's sentence to time served (the full text of the letter appears below and a copy is attached). In his
correspondence to the President, McFarlane calls former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's affidavit in the Pollard case part of the "manifestation" of Weinberger's "recurrent episodes of strong criticisms and
unbalanced reasoning when decisions involving Israel were being made."
Similar criticism of Weinberger had been made by former Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb, who stated that Pollard's life sentence was due to Weinberger's "visceral hatred of Israel."
In his letter to President Obama, McFarlane cited Weinberger's inaccurate affidavit as the primary cause for Pollard's disproportionate sentence. McFarlane noted to the President that Weinberger's well-known bias toward Israel undoubtedly led him to file the damaging affidavit that essentially sealed Pollard's fate...
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