Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1985 for spying for Israel, even though his defense team had obtained agreement from the prosecution that he would serve a much shorter sentence.The judge overturned the deal after then-Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger intervened and pushed for a life sentence.Twenty-five years have passed since then, and Pollard, physically weakened, still sits in an American prison.Efforts to release him have been bolstered recently by Lawrence J. Korb, who served under Weinberger as Assistant Secretary of Defense.  Korb sent a letter to President Obama requesting clemency for Pollard on the basis that there had been a gross miscarriage of justice.  Korb accused his former boss of having been motivated by a "visceral dislike of Israel" in pushing for what Korb described as a "grossly disproportionate" sentence.  At the same time, Rafi Eitan, who was Pollard's Israeli handler, disclosed that...(Read Full Post)