Bush pardons 15 people, commutes one sentence

[sabra]

Source: USA Today

President Bush granted pardons yesterday to 15 convicted criminals, and commuted one prisoner's sentence, according to the Justice Department. Here's a list of the beneficiaries of this executive power.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/files/bush_pardons.pdf




Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/03/bush-pardons-15.html

[Thepricebreaker]

1. Presidents do this all the time.. this is Breaking news because?

[fascisthunter]

4. I Want to Know Who He Pardons and When

because he's the type of pig head that would pardon the most notorious of criminals in American history. :shrug:

[Orsino]

15. The real scandal is who escapes even serious investigation.

He doesn't have to pardon his cronies.

[ohio2007]

21. Two pardons were given to the border patrol agents that were thrown in jail

for shooting an illegal that almost ran them over while crossing the border into the US.
Wonder when they will be interviewed by the MSM?

[bluestateguy]

2. Guess Scooter Libby and Jack Abramoff didn't make the cut

Oh well, they can try again on January 20th.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. I thought he was already granted clemency.

It's not as if he's paying for his crimes as it is.

[bluestateguy]

6. Commutation, but as of now the felony conviction still stands

His jail sentence was commuted. I'm sure Bush will pardon him on his way out the back door of the White House.

[mainegreen]

3. "Unlawful detention, delay and secretion of mail by postal employee"

Secretion of mail?
Does that mean it's illegal to sweat envelopes?

[Scairp]

9. Yes

But that isn't what this person did. They didn't deliver the mail. I've seen this before, mail carriers sick of delivering all that junk mail, and real mail too for that matter, and they hoard it in their cars or houses, or even throw it down sewers.

[Ian David]

18. There was a neo-nazi at a post office north of Boston who admitted hiding Jewish newspapers.

Even after his admission, he still kept his job for years.

Every once in a while, he'd still do it, just not as often as he used to.

As far as I know, he still works there.

[steven88]

7. If you are selling drugs or migratory bird parts you are ok per Bush. n/t

[shanti]

8. nobody from cali

:eyes:

[mikelgb]

10. there was a marijuana dist charge from Santee, CA

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. and a military guy importing cocaine got pardoned

Bush overturned a Court Martial for a cocaine smuggler,
another pardon for a heroin importer,
commuted sentences of a cocaine dealer ( over 50 grams)
who also committed food stamp fraud :wtf:

The backstory on these must be really interesting.

[superconnected]

12. Likely old friends.

Either that or their familys are big donars/corporate heads.

[sam sarrha]

13. gun charge, columbian sounding name

[mountainvue]

24. The cocaine dealer was accepting

food stamps as payment for crack:

http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/993/993.F2d.1541.92-5517.92-5341.92-5312.92-5311.92-5265.html

I wonder what move George to commute her sentence?

[pokercat999]

14. If I became President on Jan 20th, 2009 on Jan 21st I would

commute the sentence of every one convicted of any drug offense with out violence. I would pardon anyone convicted of simple possession of any drug.

[RantinRavin]

16. I don't believe that would be possible

I may be wrong here, but the President's pardon power only covers federal offenses. Since most drug cases are state charges I do not believe the President has any authority.

[pokercat999]

19. If that's the case I would let the Federal prisoners go and

encourage all Governors to do the same.

[onehandle]

17. Warm up for December.

Wait until we see that list. Presidents should be banned from pardoning after the first Tuesday in the last November of their term.

[Maine-ah]

20. How much ya wanna bet that some of the folks pardoned

with cocain offenses are his former (or current) suppliers?

[David Zephyr]

22. He will be issuing a lot of pardons to dilute the effect when he later pardons his friends.

"Well, I pardoned a lot of people. I am a compassionate man." Expect it.

[mountainvue]

23. He pardoned a lot of drug

dealers. The one woman whose sentence was commuted was sentenced to 23 years.