Except it wasn't a pardon but a commutation - General Petreaus got an actual pardon for spilling secrets to his biographer he was having an affair with - an obvious position for a honeypot.

That still shows a less than friendly attitude to whistleblowers and a hypocritical double standard of holding those in power to a far lower standard. It stinks of cynical "we just want the bad PR to go away but don't want to say she did the right thing" so just commuting to validate the court ruling. Meanwhile Petreaus we should assert that the ruling class are seperate and should be sancrosanct - pardon!