Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and News Agencies: U.S. ambassador apologizes for remarks on convicted spy Pollard
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Title:#7 stifffler, you need to read up some more
Name:Johnboy
City: SydneyState: Australia
"He sold secrets to a friend....not to a country that would use the secrets against the US."

The "friend" he sold those secrets to then turned around and on-sold a great deal of it to the Russians in order to curry favor and gain the approval for many Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel.

I really do think you need to go here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/576453/posts
and read what the New Yorker`s Seymour Hersh has to say before you just shrug your shoulders and say "no big deal, no damage done"

Bit of an eye-opener, that one.