Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle sent President Barack Obama a letter Monday, calling on him to truncate the sentence of Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy sentenced to life in prison for espionage against the United States. Pollard was found guilty of spying against the U.S. in 1987 and is incarcerated at a federal jail in North Carolina. Quayle wrote in a letter to the Obama that although Pollard's crime "was very serious, life sentence for the crime committed is very extreme." Quayle is the most senior former U.S. Administration official to date to support the recent calls to grant clemency to Pollard.
