{"id":10548,"date":"2015-07-30T06:47:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T11:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2015-07-30T06:47:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T11:47:34","slug":"incongruities-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10548","title":{"rendered":"Incongruities in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2015\/07\/29\/incongruities-news-paul-craig-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Incongruities in the News<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Jonathan Pollard, a paid spy for Israel described by Michael D. Shear as \u201cone of the country\u2019s most notorious spies,\u201d has been pardoned from his life sentence. It strikes me as hypocritical for the US government to sentence anyone to prison for spying when the government itself spies on everyone everywhere. All Americans including members of the House and Senate, congressional staff, military officers, foreign governments including the leaders of Washington\u2019s closest allies, and foreign businesses are spied upon. No one is exempt from Washington\u2019s spying.<\/p>\n<p>Washington claims that its worldwide spying does no harm. So how did the very limited spying of one person\u2014Pollard\u2014a civilian employee of Naval intelligence do so much harm as to warrant a life sentence? What some of us would like to see is a life sentence for NSA.<\/p>\n<p>What disturbs me about the case is that it is Pollard, who spied for a foreign country, who is released. In contrast, Manning and Snowden\u00a0<em>who spied for the American people\u00a0<\/em>are locked away, Manning in a federal prison and Snowden in his Russian exile. Julian Assange, who merely did his job as a journalist and made available to newspapers documents leaked to him, is confined to the Ecuadoran embassy in London.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that if Pollard who spied for Israel can be set free, so ought to be Manning, Snowden, and Assange who spied for the American people and reported the illegal activities of the US government and the dangerous impact of Washington\u2019s illegal activities on the liberty of Americans. Pollard is a hero to Israel, not to America, and it is Pollard who is released. Manning, Snowden, and Assange are heroes to America, and they continue to be confined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incongruities in the News Jonathan Pollard, a paid spy for Israel described by Michael D. Shear as \u201cone of the country\u2019s most notorious spies,\u201d has been pardoned from his life sentence. It strikes me as hypocritical for the US government to sentence anyone to prison for spying when the government itself spies on everyone everywhere. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7678,7677,7679,512,570,2951,3007,746],"class_list":["post-10548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-incongruity","tag-jonathan-pollard","tag-manning","tag-media","tag-news","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-snowden","tag-spying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10549,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions\/10549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}