Interesting. No one seems to remember that on Bill Clinton's last day in office he pardoned 14 Puerto Rican FALN terrorists that had bombed over 100 buildings in NYC, Chicago and DC. They killed 6 people and injured over 100 more. From:
http://www.providence.edu/polisci/students/clinton_pardons/high_profile.html

"Bill Clinton pardoned sixteen members of the FALN organization. These men belonged to a Puerto Rican freedom terrorist group, which was responsible for planting over 130 bombs in public places in the U.S. They killed six people and injured seventy. (Genovese and Almquist, 83) The FALN represented the single largest terrorism campaign in the U.S. “Yet Clinton’s clemency released individuals from prison after serving less than twenty years of terms running from fifty-five to ninety years.” (Fisher, 590) Again, President Clinton did not follow formal pardon procedures. He skipped the Department of Justice and attorneys. The FBI did not conduct any background checks and the FALN did not even execute a formal request."

More info at:
http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2002/02/04/faln/index.html