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Profile of Ronald Rodgers

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Today's Washington Post reports, "Awaiting New Pardon Attorney: Backlog and Chance to Make Mark," by Carrie Johnson. In three decades of government service, Ronald L. Rodgers has gathered intelligence to prosecute drug rings and has navigated international tensions as a military judge. But his latest assignment may be his biggest challenge yet. President Bush named Rodgers last month to head the Justice Department's pardon office, a unit that has suffered under substantial backlogs after its previous leader was accused of mismanagement and of making racially offensive statements. Rodgers inherited a stack of nearly 2,000 requests for pardons and commutations of prison sentences in the waning months of the president's administration, a time when pressure to exercise the clemency power intensifies...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).