Editing Mark Whitacre (section)

===Clemency and pardon support===
Appeals for Whitacre's full pardon or [[clemency]] to the White House were supported by several current and former justice department officials: Dean Paisley, a retired 25-year veteran and former FBI supervisor on the price-fixing case; two other FBI agents involved with the case; a former [[Attorney General of the United States]]; one of the former Asst. U.S. Attorneys who prosecuted Whitacre; two prosecutors from the [[Department of Justice (Canada)|Canadian Department of Justice]]; several [[United States Senate|Senators]] and [[United States House of Representatives|Congressmen]]; Cornell University and Ohio State University professors; Major League Baseball Hall of Famer [[Harmon Killebrew]]; [[Chuck Colson]]; and numerous top executives of corporations.<ref name="Clemency"/><ref name="Guebert">{{Harvnb|Guebert|2007}}</ref><ref name="England">{{Harvnb|England|2009}}</ref>

In 2008, more than ten years after the original conviction, Paisley and two other FBI agents went public with praise for Whitacre. Paisley concluded that "Whitacre's fraud case was minuscule as compared to the ADM case Whitacre cooperated with."<ref name="Clemency"/><ref name="Muirhead"/><ref name="Cain">{{cite news | url=http://herald-review.com/news/local/article_3526d361-9cea-509a-994a-3ed48fc44e88.html | work=Decatur Herald | first=Tim | last=Cain | title=Behind the inside man: Mark Whitacre, talks about 'The Informant', his time in prison and moving forward | date=April 6, 2008 | url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403181715/http://www.herald-review.com/news/local/article_3526d361-9cea-509a-994a-3ed48fc44e88.html | archive-date=April 3, 2012 }}</ref> "Had it not been for the fraud conviction," Paisley said, "he would be a national hero. Well, he is a national hero."<ref name="Muirhead"/><ref name="Cain"/><ref name="England"/><ref name="Sidhu"/> Paisley added, "Without him, the biggest antitrust case we've ever had would not have been."<ref name="Muirhead"/><ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Sidhu">{{Citation |author=Sidhu, Roopam |title= Fresno company linked to Matt Damon movie |publisher=CBS TV 47 Fresno |date= July 23, 2008}}{{YouTube|r7c-e_9thlk}}</ref> On August 4, 2010, in a [[Discovery Channel]] documentary, ''Undercover: Operation Harvest King'', several FBI agents stated that "Whitacre got a raw deal."<ref name="Discovery Channel">{{Harvnb|Discovery Channel|2009}}</ref> In addition, official letters from the FBI in support of a Whitacre pardon were published in Floyd Perry's September 2009 book, ''Mark Whitacre: Against All Odds.''{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}