[visualops]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/president-obama-offers-clemency-to-seven-iranians-charged-with-violating-us-trade-sanctions/2016/01/16/92aa9d6e-bc72-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html

Note that most of these criminals were not just “violating sanctions”, they were actively helping Iran technologically.

[livius]

Thank you. You’re right, these were not just any old commercial violations.

[piasa]

What’s to stop him from giving clemency to the Blind Sheikh, if anything?