Outgoing President Joe Biden has been doing his best to be remembered as one of the worst presidents in US History, and underlined it today as one of his last acts in office was to pardon members of his family on a preemptive basis, and commute the sentence of the murderer Leonard Peltier. As noted in a story on the MPR Website:
In one of his last official acts before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden released Leonard Peltier from prison.
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The commutation was widely opposed by law enforcement who insisted that Peltier’s actions were cold-blooded, and he should remain imprisoned for the rest of his life for murdering FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams in 1975. The agents’ deaths came at a time when tensions were high over a nationwide struggle between the U.S. government and activists for Native American civil and treaty rights.
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Biden’s move is certain to anger many in the law enforcement community. FBI Director Christopher Wray lobbied against Peltier’s most recent parole request.
“Over the last 45 years, no fewer than 22 federal judges have evaluated the evidence and considered Peltier’s legal arguments.” Wray wrote in a letter opposing Peltier’s 2024 parole request. “Each has reached the same conclusion: Peltier’s claims are meritless, and his convictions and sentence must stand.”
The FBI also discouraged past presidents from pardoning or granting clemency to Peltier.
“They were down, they were wounded, they were helpless and he shot them point blank,” Mike Clark, president of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, told The Associated Press last summer. “It is a heinous crime.”
As noted by Attorney General Jackley in July of this year,
“Leonard Peltier murdered two FBI agents in cold blood, and he has never shown any remorse for these murders,” said Attorney General Jackley. “The two FBI agents, who died in the line of duty, and their loved ones deserve justice, and parole for Peltier is not justice.”
For more reading, I’d recommend the book “American Indian Mafia” which presents first hand accounts, and the other side of the coin to the propaganda that Joe Biden succumbed to. (Which was positively reviewed by Bill Janklow, and former Congressman Frank Denholm)
As of noon, welcome to chaotic fascism. You good Republicans should know better.
Chaotic fascism…care to define that and give specific examples, provable not feelings, of such. Or are you just vomiting the libturd talking points ?
Two meme coins that are going to fleece Americans of billions. Trumpers are already crying they got scammed by Trump and Company. 4 years of grifting at the expense of workers to pad their pockets.
That’s it? That’s all you have? No wonder you mental rejects got your asses handed to you in November.
Monetizing the presidency and creating a method of money laundering and bribery. Good luck tracking those foreign payments to his back pocket. He is risking our entire financial system to personally profit. . Amazing.
President Trump has already said he won’t go after mumblin-stumblin Joe.
But the Republican House majority is smaller than it was prior to the ’24 election.
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We see you can’t define and give examples…surprise surprise.
What a cute, but failed attempt, to try to ignore the obvious.
Translation…you don’t have an answer so why don’t you just deflect. VSG…Very Stupid Gaslighter
Wait until tomorrow when Trump pardons all the January 6th tourist.
And most of them should be pardoned.
I thought they were all Democrat plants and antifa?
Claims of fake news doesn’t wrok when we can watch it live. So the guys that have went to trail were plants? Come on, quit reaching>
Blanket pardons are the correct decision.
Regardless of the fact pattern for any particular J6 case, the federal government made a deliberate decision to depart from its obligation to follow due process. When that happens, the justice system in a free country has no alternative but to consider cases irrevocably tainted and every defendant must go free.
Wow. Biden is truly a bad person.
Maybe I misspoken. It’s actually Keystone fascism. 🙂
RIP Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams.
The comment section really got off track. Peltier executed two law enforcement officers. He never showed remorse. No one who evaluated the facts agreed with him. And then, on his way out, Biden throws out a pardon. Almost for the simple fact that he can. For no reason. Maybe to distract from all the other pardons. What a disgrace.
It’s a commutation, not a pardon.
It should have been an execution.
Exactly