Bush Flooded With Pardon Requests: Mike Milken, Marion Jones, "American Taliban"

newsweek.com:

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Bush Pardons 14, Commutes 2 Prison Sentences

The Justice department is getting flooded with a new wave of requests for pardons and commutations from convicted felons hoping for clemency from President Bush before he leaves office. A number of politically connected Washington lawyers have been retained to push the cases, but there are few signs that Bush will be open to anything resembling the last minute "pardon party" that marked President Clinton's final days in office.

Bush has taken a stingy stand on pardons, granting fewer of them--just 157, and none of them high profile--than any president in modern history. He has directed all hopefuls to submit applications to the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney, which evaluates all requests using strict, longstanding guidelines, including a requirement that applicants have finished serving their sentences and expressed remorse. The office received a record 555 pardon requests during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 and an additional 103 in the past month.

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Comments

[blytzd]

He is going to pardon his entire adminstration to avoid war crime charges among other things.

[cactusgal]

bin Laden should put in a request.

After all, he's the guy who did the most for GW.

[truthbrigade]

You'd be surprised how few people in this country understand your comment.

[MsLiz]

They don't read Huffington Post.

[muscleboundH]

Indeed, Bin Laden has done the most for W's career. After all, it is part of the Al Qaeda manifesto to 'bankrupt' the USA. Look around. Our economy is pretty much a disaster thanks to the "liberation" of Iraq (among other idiotic mistakes by the Bushies).

Bush bought in to Al Qaeda's demands that he destroy the economy, hook-line-­and-sinker (no pun intended).

9/11 NEVER STOPPED!

[forpeace]

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............ instead of doing something about Economy, he will be very BUSY to Pardon all the War C riminals for the next sixty something days left!

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[steamboat]

Prediction: Former Illinois governor George Ryan gets pardoned.

[mjb5406]

I hope not... that guy is an arrogant a-s-s-h* (I can say that because I'm from Illinois and I've seen him at work... not that our current governor is any better, but his day of reckoning will still come).

[truthbrigade]

It takes one to know one. The criminal syndicate is alive and kicking.

[LiberalDemIda]

I guess Bush's pardon will depend on "what have you done for ME lately?"

He broke his own rule and pardoned convicted felon Scooter Libby but Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, two former U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted for shooting a Mexican DRUG DEALER who was an illegal in the United States, he lets rot in prison?

So much for Bush logic. If ever any men were due pardons, it's these two. If ever there was any man who should be disqualified for any pardon in accordance with Bush's rule, it's Scooter Libby.

[MsLiz]

I hope that it's not okay to shoot people because they have a criminal history. That's not justification for a bad shooting.

[VegetableMan]

this will be w's final FU to the country. who's gonna get a pardon? the line for those with cash starts on the left, credit and debit cards on the right. money orders okay, but no personal checks, please.