With all the spying the United States has been doing on foreign leaders, possibly including the Pope, why is Jonathan Pollard, a former American civilian intelligence analyst, still in jail nearly three decades after being sentenced to life in prison for taking classified documents he believed contained information important to Israel’s self-defense?

Prominent individuals support Pollard’s release. They include former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George P. Schultz, former CIA director James Woolsey (who initially was against Pollard’s release), former Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, among others.