Mark: I suppose the politics of the Ramos-Compean case could spin out of control — especially if certain people continue to make distinctions between some prisoners as “real criminals” and others as… what? Unreal criminals? Non-criminals? The wrongfully imprisoned? Pardoning these BP agents for “political” reasons and the existence of “deep wells of resentment among grassroots conservatives” strikes me as bad advice in the extreme. Pardons aren’t for pandering.