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Providing a positive spin on the pardon attorney scandal

By Douglas A. Berman

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Former US Pardon Attorney Margaret Colgate Love sent me this e-mail which suggests good might come from the latest disturbing news from the US Pardon Attorney's Office:It occurred to me that the ugly situation in the Pardon Attorney's Office, as reported in the New York Times op-ed piece by George Lardner and in Tuesday's AP piece, has at least one silver lining: It offers an opportunity to restore the Justice Department's pardon program to its historical role as the source of fair and impartial advice about clemency cases. That act would be the most valuable pardon legacy any president has left for three decades, and it would more than redeem President Bush's otherwise undistinguished pardoning record. Since the late 1970's, when Jimmy Carter's attorney general Griffin Bell delegated responsibility for making clemency recommendations to the chief operating officer of the Justice Department, the pardon program has lost whatever independence and integrity it once enjoyed within the Department...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).