WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton said yesterday he had asked the Justice Department to review an Israeli government request that he reduce the life sentence of Jonathan Pollard, a former intelligence consultant to the navy convicted of spying for Israel.
At an afternoon news conference, Clinton confirmed that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had asked him to grant Pollard clemency.
"I will not make a decision on the Pollard case until I get (the Justice Department review)," Clinton said