Pelranius wrote:DEATH wrote:
I do not recall America passing on classified information about Israel to Hezbollah or Iran.
And there weren't any cases of Israel passing on classified information about America to Al-Quaida or communist rebels, your point being?
Espionage is espionage, everyone does it, to allies included. The self righteous bleating here is quite hilarious. The only question is the information taken by the spy (it's sensitivity), how highly placed he is/was (for either side), and what the other side will do to get him back, assuming the information wasn't overly damaging, or the spy becoming a political "example"/scapegoat/highly visible in the media, which limits potential swaps.
Pollard's information went to the Soviet Union in exchange for favors.
I don't know anything about Pollard, and frankly i'm not interested in arguing about him, in addition it doesn't disrupt the second, primary part of my argument which was/is "Everyone does it, what matters is what you get caught doing, with who, how far down your pants are, and how much you can pay for the negatives".
If I was a USA citizen i'd probably feel quite justified in wanting Pollard to rot, same as someone from Israel might feel about USA "spies" (wanting them to hang as traitors), or someone from the UK about USA spies (or vice versa), etc'
It's a relative thing, and each originating state wants the foreign spies racked over coals and/or it's own spies back safe (in the case of exchanges). That's how I see it, and had it explained to me (
unofficially,
by a friend who is not involved with any intelligence or diplomatic or foreign service, in case you get the wrong idea 
) at any rate.
Dang, it's liberating not to be in a representive role, and to be able to spout anything I think or feel
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