PRESIDENTIAL CLEMENCY ACTIONS BY GEORGE BUSH II 2001-2007

PRESIDENTIAL CLEMENCY ACTIONS
BY ADMINISTRATION: 2001 to 2007
(P=Pardon; C=Commutation; R=Remission of Fine)

Year	Petitions Pending		Petitions Received		Petitions Granted			Petitions Denied		Petitions Closed W/O Presidential Action		Total Clemency Actions by Year
George W. Bush
Year	Petitions Pending		Petitions Received		P	C	R	Petitions Denied		Petitions Closed W/O Presidential Action		Total Clemency Actions by Year
	P	C	P	C				P	C	P	C
FY 2001	923	2062	110	548	0	0	0	0	1	45	277	0
FY 2002	988	2332	152	1096	0	0	0	519	1466	53	240	0
FY 2003	565	1715	172	851	7	0	0	51	819	21	159	7
FY 2004	659	1588	235	951	12	2	0	108	632	42	178	14
FY 2005	733	1728	252	807	39	0	0	89	411	35	296	39
FY 2006	822	1829	254	759	39	0	0	255	779	53	315	39
FY 2007	729	1494	117	164	16	1	0	0	0	36	126	17
FY 2008
Total			1295	5176	113	3	0	1022	4108	285	1591	116 / 450*

The statistics for Acts of Clemency granted by President George H. Bush are a state secret and had to be obtained by a personal request to the Department of Justice. Please see the United States Department of Justice, Office of Pardons page by clicking http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/statistics.htm which shows statistics up to President Bush's ascendancy; since then (2001) not a single statistic has been publicly released on the internet to our knowledge.

Former Pardon Attorney for Presidents Bush I and Clinton stated, Margaret Colgate Love stated, ""He's being careful to the point of trivializing his pardon power... If he did absolutely nothing, he would be criticized as being stingy." The pardons he has granted for old, innocuous cases, she says, are "the least he can do. They say nothing." (Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-12-29-bush-pardons_x.htm).

* The total of 450 Acts of Clemency from 2000 to February, 2007 include 334 Acts of Clemency by former President Bill Clinton (including his well-known midnight pardon of Marc Rich while he was leaving office).