Don't see a lot of difference between Pollard and Elsberg. Elsberg even got awards.
you make an interesting analogy-----it is clear that POLLARD----actually
thought his release of papers to the US ally---Israel----was a good thing.
My personal opinion (I have some minimal experience with "secret stuff"---
having served as an officer in the US Navy) is -----that he was DEAD WRONG--
but it is clear that he did not imagine that he was causing a problem to the USA.
He was just "technically" not supposed to do what he did------kinda stupid.
He seems to have been jailed too long for "stupid"------HOWEVER I still
do not know what damage his activities caused the USA
Pollard was Jew First and an American Second. That was his problem.
But frankly, 30 years was an excessive sentence, there are guys who spied for our ENEMIES who got less time.
Let the Zionists have him.
And then start asking the long hard question of what good reasons we have to be getting in the middle of the fight between the Zionists and the Arabs who want to kill them.
we have never been in the middle----we are in the periphery