Pardons, yes; pretty much every president does at the end of his term.

Commuting the sentence of one of the executive's own staffers who outed a CIA covert agent in retaliation for her husband's stance against the administration's falsified data for waging war? Clinton did many things, but not that. This gives the executive de facto untouchable agents capable of going to any length to attack, intimidate or silence its critics -- or those merely attached to its critics -- without any form of oversight or accountability.