Clinton Pardons Called ‘Accident Waiting to Happen’: “From the beginning of his presidency,
Bill Clinton moved to take away the Justice Department’s
traditional role of being first to review requests for
clemency, the agency’s former pardon attorney told a
congressional committee Wednesday.

‘The final Clinton pardons were an accident waiting to
happen,’ Margaret Colgate Love, who served as pardon
attorney from 1990 to 1997, told the House Judiciary
subcommittee on the Constitution. New York Times