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FBI Director Christopher Wray called clemency 'wholly unjustified' for
Leonard Peltier, who is expected to be placed on house arrest after prison
release
Shortly before leaving office Monday, former President Biden commuted the
life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a far-left activist convicted in the
1975 murders of two FBI special agents, Ronald Williams and Jack Coler,
who were gunned down in a shootout in South Dakota.
Peltier's most recent bid for parole failed in July. Former Presidents
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both denied clemency requests for him, but
he had supporters among other prominent Democrats, including Sens.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, as well as former Secretary of the
Interior Deb Haaland.
The move outraged the FBI Agents Association and came days after outgoing
FBI Director Christopher Wray sent a letter to Biden urging him not to
free the killer.
"The FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) is outraged by President Bidens
decision to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a convicted cop
killer responsible for the brutal murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler
and Ronald Williams," FBIAA President Natalie Bara told Fox News Digital.
"This last-second, disgraceful act by then-President Biden, which does not
change Peltiers guilt but does release him from prison, is cowardly and
lacks accountability. It is a cruel betrayal to the families and
colleagues of these fallen Agents and is a slap in the face of law
enforcement."
DOJ PANEL DENIES PAROLE FOR FAR-LEFT ACTIVIST CONVICTED IN SLAYINGS OF 2
FBI AGENTS
On Jan. 10, Wray implored Biden not to do it.
"I hope these letters are unnecessary, and that you are not considering a
pardon or commutation," Wray wrote. "But on behalf of the FBI family, and
out of an abundance of caution, I want to make sure our position is clear:
Peltier is a remorseless killer, who brutally murdered two of our own
Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. Granting Peltier any relief
from his conviction or sentence is wholly unjustified and would be an
affront to the rule of law."
Peltier, now 80 and in poor health, is serving two consecutive life
sentences for the slayings, plus another seven years for an armed escape
attempt. He repeatedly failed to appeal his case. His supporters feared he
would die in prison and looked to President Biden to set him free.
"For nearly 50 years, no fewer than 22 federal judges, multiple parole
boards, and six presidential administrations have evaluated the evidence
and considered Peltiers arguments," Wray wrote. "Each has reached the
same conclusion: Peltiers claims are meritless and his convictions and
sentence must stand."
Biden overruled him.
PRESIDENT BIDEN PARDONS HIS SIBLINGS JUST MINUTES BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE
It's the latest in a string of pardons, commutations and sweetheart plea
deals Biden has given to convicted murderers on his way out of office. He
took 37 out of 40 federal inmates off of death row, and his attorney
general, Merrick Garland, took the death penalty off the table for a
brutal MS-13 leader responsible for seven murders. Two victims, teen high
school girls, were massacred with machetes and baseball bats.
He also gave last-minute preemptive pardons to his family members and
allies, including his siblings, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and members
of the January 6 Committee. He had previously pardoned his son, Hunter.
Read FBI Director Wray's letter to Biden on Leonard Peltier:
https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/01/joseph-r.-
biden-jr.-regarding-leonard-peltier.pdf
Haaland praised Peltier's commutation.
"I am beyond words about the commutation of Leonard Peltier," she wrote on
X. "His release from prison signifies a measure of justice that has long
evaded so many Native Americans for so many decades."
TEEN MS-13 VICTIM'S FATHER SLAMS LAST-MINUTE BIDEN DOJ PLEA DEAL
On June 26, 1975, Williams and Coler were looking for a group of armed
robbery suspects in the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge,
South Dakota. Although Peltier wasn't one of them, he was traveling in a
vehicle that caught the agents' attention.
The agents weren't aware that Peltier was also the subject of an arrest
warrant for the attempted murder of an off-duty police officer in
Wisconsin.
According to court documents, Williams warned Coler over the radio that
someone in the vehicle was about to start shooting at them. Gunfire
erupted. Both agents were wounded. According to the FBI, both agents were
executed with point-blank gunshots to the head from Peltier's AR-15.
Coler, originally from Bakersfield, California, had been an LAPD officer
before joining the FBI in 1971. Williams was also a California native,
from Glendale. He joined the FBI in 1972.
"The pardon of Leonard Peltier is not an act of justice but an abandonment
of it," said Nicole Parker, a former FBI agent who lost two colleagues of
her own to line-of-duty violence.
"I myself lost my dearest friend and colleague, FBI Special Agent Laura
Schwartzenberger, and Special Agent Daniel Alfin when they were murdered
February 2, 2021, executing a search warrant to stop a child predator,"
she told Fox News Digital. "The crushing heartbreak of losing mighty
warriors who selflessly protect others is indescribable."
Four men were arrested in their deaths, but only Peltier was convicted,
according to the FBI. The government dropped charges against James Eagle,
the robbery suspect Williams and Coler were looking for at the start of
the shootout. Two other men, Robert Robideau and Darrelle Butler, were
acquitted at trial in 1976.
After his release from federal prison, he is expected to be placed on
house arrest.
"Agents Coler and Williams gave their lives in service to this nation, and
their families continue to bear the heavy burden of that sacrifice," Bara
said. "The loss of these heroes is felt as deeply today within the FBI
family as it was in 1975. Leonard Peltier has never expressed remorse for
his actions. Special Agents Coler and Williams were stolen from their
families, robbed of the chance to share precious time and milestones with
their loved ones. Leonard Peltier should not have been granted a mercy he
so cruelly denied to the Coler and Williams families."
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bananarepublic678
15 hours ago
This story is just like what we've been through the last 4 years not only
with the Biden regime but the Democrats also.
You kept trying and trying to tell them everything they're doing wrong but
they won't listen, they just don't want to face the truth or do the Right
thing because they don't want to make it look as if they are heeding to
the advice of their political opponents.
But it's pride and not wanting to give in to someone else's will even if
it's Right.
These Democrats have lost their way. They want to do the opposite of
what's right just to get back at you and do so on purpose.
How can they not be moved to do the Right thing?
Are they that morally bankrupt?
Is their heart made out of stone?
Trump kept saying Joe was Corrupt.
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November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.
The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and
eradicated.
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.