11.   Time has produced a process, even an office of the pardon attorney, that invites the Justice Department to weed out requests.

12.   Typically they are reviewed by the pardon attorney at the Justice Department before being forwarded to the White House.

13.   The Justice Department on Tuesday declined to say what the pardon attorney recommended.

14.   When the paperwork was finished is likely to be one of the questions put to Justice Department pardon attorney Roger Adams, who was scheduled to testify.