(JNi.media) Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Monday rejected news stories that said convicted spy Jonathan Pollard is slated to be paroled this year. Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for selling classified information to Israel.
Rumsfeld tweeted on Monday: “Releasing spy Jonathan Pollard doesn’t make the #IranDeal any less of a disaster for Israel & the free world.”
In his next tweet, Rumsfeld posted a letter from 1998 and a memo from 2001 asking presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush respectively not to release Pollard. The letter from 1998 was signed by seven former defense secretaries: Donald Rumsfeld, Melvin R. Laird, Frank C. Carlucci, Richard Cheney, Caspar Weinberger, James Schlesinger and Elliot Richardson.
In the 2001 memo, Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Rumsfeld called freeing Pollard “enormously damaging to our efforts to keep spies out of our government.”
