Sixty U.S. senators urged President Clinton to keep Jonathan Pollard imprisoned despite pressure from Israel to free the former intelligence analyst convicted of spying for the Jewish state. “Any grant of clemency would now be viewed as an acquiescence to external political pressures,” the senators wrote in a letter to Clinton.
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