Who Did Alleged DIA Traitor Nathan Laatsch Think He Was Spying For?
The redacted charging document mentions a "friendly nation" - but the DOJ doesn't want to tell us which one. Could it be that we have a Pollard 2.0 here?
On the topic of recently apprehended DIA spy Nathan Laatsch, it is perhaps worth revisiting the treason of Jonathan Pollard.
For anyone trivializing Pollard's treasonous acts, I recommend they read Caspar Weinberger's sentencing affidavit, which can be found here.
Weinberger wanted the death penalty for Pollard.
He writes:
“... in my opinion, no crime is more deserving of severe punishment than conducting espionage activities against one's own country. This is especially true when the individual spy has voluntarily assumed the responsibility of protecting the nation's secrets.”
There is also a 151-page CIA document which contains the damage assessment of Pollard's betrayal.
Most pages are completely blacked-out-redacted.
Finally, there is another document worth reading, and that is the Department of Justice's reply to Pollard's requests for leniency and so on.
It contains some remarkably sharp language — in some instances clearly intended to humiliate and ridicule Pollard:
“Instead, defendant resorts to arguing that these potential risks -- such as the use of classified information by Israel against third countries, the provision by Israel of U.S. classified information to third countries adverse to the U.S., or the further compromise of U.S. classified information to hostile countries -- would not likely occur since Israel is a close and careful ally. The short and dispositive answer to this argument is that it was this close and careful ally who, by defendant’s own account, mounted a large-scale espionage operation against the United States.”
What is also remarkable is Wolf Blitzer's role in defending Pollard by writing articles in the Jerusalem Post, that further damaged U.S. national security according to the above document.
Blitzer then wrote a ridiculous book about the case based on the most fantastical and outrageous lies.
In fact, one might call that a work of treason too.
Pollard himself, living like a national hero in Israel, has a podcast where his endless railing against the United States is interspersed with Messianic, racist Jewish supremacist rants.
Now, somebody please remind me: what do we have those CAG / SAD bag-and-tag teams for?
And where is a Caspar Weinberger these days when America needs him?
Weinberger was an American patriot.