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Turning over pardons to career officials has not removed money and politics from the process, the analysis found.

But the former president is now eager to put the latest uproar over pardons behind him, aides say.

He said he was particularly upset over pardons extended to Marc Rich, a financier living in Switzerland as a fugitive from tax evasion charges, and to four Hasidic rabbis who had been convicted of embezzling government funds intended for a religious school that existed only on paper.

Any wavering Democrats should remember that these donations were at the center of their party's destructive fund-raising scandals of recent years, including President Clinton's re-election campaign and the furor over pardons to people with connections to his biggest soft-money donors.

"President Obama is prioritizing commutations over pardons- note that he has granted only 70 pardons during his presidency, fewer than any President since clemency stats have been recorded".

The president's clemency record is improving with 306 commutations to date and Julie Stewart from Families Against Mandatory Minimums thinks Obama is going to continue to grant commutations over pardons, releasing people from prison rather than restoring their rights.

The report also criticizes the "recalcitrance" of the Bush White House for refusing to turn over pardon-related documents that even Mr. Clinton has not sought to block.

But the report, by the House Government Reform Committee -- whose chairman is Dan Burton, the Indiana Republican who was a persistent critic of Mr. Clinton -- also takes the Bush administration to task for refusing to turn over pardon-related documents that may shed light on the White House deliberations.

He talked with Justice Department officials about establishing a bipartisan commission or some quasi-independent office that would take over the pardon recommendations from the Justice Department.

Senior Justice Department lawyer Deborah Leff will be taking over as pardon attorney from Ronald L. Rodgers, who has headed the office since 2008.

In 2008, Rodgers, a former military judge and federal prosecutor, took over the pardon office and changed the way it handled commutation applications.