“The Obama administration instructed Justice Department attorneys to neglect applications for presidential pardons to give priority to the Justice Department’s initiative to release low-level offenders from prison, the former pardon attorney said in her resignation letter early this year.
“That inaction was one of several issues that former Pardon Attorney Deborah Leff cited in her letter, which was obtained by USA TODAY after making a Freedom of Information Act request. Leff resigned in January after less than two years as the official responsible for making clemency recommendations for the president.”