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Pardons for members of government for actions they took from the seat of government just removes the public's ability to hold our government accountable. We already have too little accountability.
Further because pardons are more likely to be political in nature it allows for a regime to entirely protect themselves when and if they commit abuses of power.
Now lets see what different places around the net say:
edit: I decided I'd let you vote on them.
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neat. I dont think our executive branch should be interfering with the judicial branch at all. There should be no pardons at all, its a vector for corruption. "Hey Frank! I steal 1 billion, you take 1/2, use that to buy the media, get elected, pardon me, boom, we are both 1/2 billionars and you get to be president. Deal?"