Report: Obama weighed clemency for Pollard, but Biden vehemently opposed move

New York Times quotes U.S. vice president as saying that convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard would be released ‘over my dead body’

“President Obama was considering clemency, but I told him, ‘Over my dead body are we going to let him out before his time.’ If it were up to me, he would stay in jail for life,” U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was quoted as saying during a meeting with rabbis in Florida in a New York Times article published on Saturday.

 

The Times article reported that U.S. President Barack Obama has turned to Biden to shore up support amongst U.S. Jews.

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