Scooter Libby.
It’s good to see this comparison. I’m sure all the Dems. from Nancy P. to Hillary to Harry Reid will all be outraged that Bush would commute his sentence. Their outrage should be met with the facts of Clinton’s many pardons.
In fact wasn’t Clinton up all night the last few nights of his presidency getting the paperwork done for his many pardons?
I don’t think so.
As of March 7, 2007, President George W. Bush had issued 113 presidential pardons to people who have served their entire sentence, and has commuted in addition the sentences of three people. In this context, a pardon means an executive order vacating a conviction for which the sentence has already been served, thereby eliminating the collateral effects of the conviction, while a commutation means a mitigation of the sentence of someone currently serving a sentence for a crime pursuant to a conviction.