Village Idiot frees cocaine dealers, bank embezzlers, perjurers, smugglers

GW Bush has pardoned or freed this list of convicted criminals:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081124/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_pardons;_ylt=AuY6yyxCycD9TnGzuxYw0EUDW7oF

Is this par for the course or is this outrageous? Should this power be rescinded?

This doesn’t show some of the people who was suggested in a Slate magazine article might be pardoned:

http://www.slate.com/id/2204984/