Biden's clemency for activist Peltier 'as good as freedom'; blasted by FBI director
Native American activist Leonard Peltier said spending the rest of his life in home confinement after being granted clemency by former President Joe Biden is "as good as freedom," after Biden's own FBI director opposed commutation for a man sentenced to life for the killing of two FBI agents.
Biden commutes sentence of Peltier, convicted of killing FBI agents on Pine Ridge
President Joe Biden, as one of his last acts on Monday, commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who was serving life in prison after being convicted of killing two FBI agents 50 years ago on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
The president commuted Peltier over the objection of former FBI Director Christopher Wray. In a private letter sent to Biden ...
The FBI had urged former President Joe Biden not to commute the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has ...
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...
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