Obama announces record wave of pardons, commutations

[Captain Obvious]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/19/obama-announces-record-wave-pardons-commutations.html


President Obama on Monday pardoned 78 people and granted another 153 commutations, amounting to the most acts of clemency granted by a U.S. president ever in a single day.
White House Counsel Neil Eggleston announced the decisions in an official blog post. He described all the individuals being pardoned or seeing their sentences shortened as “deserving.”
“The 231 individuals granted clemency today have all demonstrated that they are ready to make use – or have already made use – of a second chance,” he wrote.
He also previewed additional clemency decisions in the weeks ahead, saying: “I expect that the President will issue more grants of both commutations and pardons before he leaves office.”
The decisions could fuel criticism from the right, following a presidential campaign in which winner Donald Trump hammered a law-and-order message and suggested authorities were too soft on crime.
But Obama has been granting commutations at rapid-fire pace in his final months in office, focusing primarily on shortening sentences of those convicted of drug offenses rather than pardons.

[valley ranch]

Bill Clinton sold those also!

[waltky]

A lot of `em got their sentences shortened...

... which means they be out again...

... sooner, than later.

[Common]

Obama will be gone in 30 days, hope the doorknob doesnt get stuck and delay his exit, or trumps foot in his ass. Just let him GO

[Ethereal]

I approve of this 100%. Non-violent drug offenses should not land a person in prison. And not only are federal drug laws totally unconstitutional, they are a blatant infringement on an individual's right to liberty. If anything, Obama hasn't gone far enough. I'm hoping his return to civilian life is characterized by more efforts to right the many wrongs associated with the unethical and unconstitutional war on drugs.

[Cigar]

I approve of this 100%. Non-violent drug offenses should not land a person in prison. And not only are federal drug laws totally unconstitutional, they are a blatant infringement on an individual's right to liberty. If anything, Obama hasn't gone far enough. I'm hoping his return to civilian life is characterized by more efforts to right the many wrongs associated with the unethical and unconstitutional war on drugs.

There use to be a time when people where allowed to serve their time and return to society ... why can't we get that America Back?

It seams there some who think once you've server time, the only Job you are allowed to have is being a Criminal.

[resister]

There use to be a time when people where allowed to serve their time and return to society ... why can't we get that America Back?

It seams there some who think once you've server time, the only Job you are allowed to have is being a Criminal.Lets not forget the permanent handi capp of a record that persist long after paying your debt to society

[Common Sense]

Good...but don't worry, America still has over 2 million people in jail.

[Ethereal]

There use to be a time when people where allowed to serve their time and return to society ... why can't we get that America Back?

It seams there some who think once you've server time, the only Job you are allowed to have is being a Criminal.

There used to be a time when there were no federal drug laws and no organized police forces. Yet society did not fall apart and descend into chaos.

[Tahuyaman]

There use to be a time when people where allowed to serve their time and return to society ... why can't we get that America Back?
It seams there some who think once you've server time, the only Job you are allowed to have is being a Criminal.
Obama just released more than one hundred people who were sentenced to life in prison. There also was a time when you actually served your sentence which was imposed.

[Grizz]

Bill Clinton sold those also!

Who could forget him pardoning the FALN Terrorists who then went on to kill some folks with a bomb in the Continental United States.

[Tahuyaman]

I wonder what crimes the lifers Obama cut loose were originally convicted of?

[valley ranch]

The Clintons' Terror Pardons



By DEBRA BURLINGAME

Updated Feb. 12, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET
It was nearly 10 p.m. on New Year's Eve, 1982. Two officers on New York Police Department's elite bomb squad rushed to headquarters at One Police Plaza, where minutes earlier an explosion had destroyed the entrance to the building. Lying amid the carnage was Police Officer Rocco Pascarella, his lower leg blasted off.
"He was ripped up like someone took a box cutter and shredded his face," remembered Detective Anthony Senft, one of the bomb-squad officers who answered the call 25 years ago. "We really didn't even know that he was a uniformed man until we found his weapon, that's how badly he was injured."
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About 20 minutes later, Mr. Senft and his partner, Richard Pastorella, were blown 15 feet in the air as they knelt in protective gear to defuse another bomb. Detective Senft was blinded in one eye, his facial bones shattered, his hip severely fractured. Mr. Pastorella was blinded in both eyes

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120277819085260827


I hadn't known of this.