isn't Snowden kind of like Jonathan Pollard ?

[JI7]

is one better/worse than the other? i wonder if the same ones supporting Snowden are the ones who are always trying to get a pardon for Pollard.

[Enrique]

1. my guess is it's the opposite

the Pollard supporters are even more against Snowden than the general public.

[Octafish]

2. Gosh. Pollard sold defense secrets to Israel and whoever else could afford them.

Snowden exposed an illegal government domestic spy program without pay.

So, no. They aren't alike.

[mainer]

3. I agree, they're not.

Pollard spied for a foreign government. THAT is treason.

[cthulu2016]

4. Probably the opposite

[Enrique]

5. e.g. James Woolsey

he was the first Pollard supporter I found with Google, and he is anti-Snowden

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/20/174867727/calls-to-free-spy-jonathan-pollard-grow-louder

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/06/24/former-cia-director-woolsey-snowden-has-done-substantial-damage-natio

[Kolesar]

8. All that in ten minutes

Very impressive

[quinnox]

6. besides the little detail the cases are nothing alike, yea you got a point

Hell, why not compare him to Charlie Manson. It would be more colorful.

[still_one]

7. Not necessarily. Do not have enough information