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FBI site This provides information from the FBI's files in its case against Peltier. www.freepeltier.org Sponsored by the International Office of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee www.noparolepeltier.com Site put up by the No Parole Peltier Assn., which opposes Peltier's release. Leonard Peltier information site

Witness at AIM trial says Peltier bragged of killings
Thursday, February 5, 2004
The former wife of AIM co-founder Dennis Banks told jurors Wednesday that she was with Anna Mae Aquash and others when Leonard Peltier bragged about killing two FBI agents in 1975.

Appeals court considers request for Peltier hearing
Saturday, September 20, 2003
Attorneys for jailed American Indian advocate Leonard Peltier told a federal appeals court Friday the government is denying him a parole hearing on the unproven claim that he ambushed two FBI agents before gunning them down 28 years ago.
Peltier, 59, will have been in prison twice as long as required by federal guidelines if no hearing is held until 2008 as decreed by the U.S. Parole Commission, attorney Barry Bachrach said.

Peltier sentence reduction denied
Friday, December 13, 2002
A federal appeals court Thursday rejected American Indian activist Leonard Peltier’s request for reductions in the two consecutive life sentences he got in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents, saying the appeal came far too late.
An attorney for Peltier has argued that ballistics evidence not considered by his client’s sentencing judge could have led to two concurrent life sentences, not the back-to-back ones Peltier has been serving since his 1977 conviction and sentencing.

Attorneys appeal sentence for Peltier
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
An attorney for imprisoned American Indian activist Leonard Peltier asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to reduce his sentence for the 1975 murders of two FBI agents and let him go free on parole.

Peltier supporters pin hopes on papers
Monday, July 8, 2002
By Joel Mathis

It's a little bit like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee last month received 30,000 pages of FBI documents relating to the imprisoned American Indian's case. Now, activists with the Lawrence-based committee are digging through those pages hoping to find even a sliver of evidence that will help to set Peltier free.

Peltier lawsuit against FBI cites civil rights violations
Friday, April 5, 2002
FBI agents and Director Louis Freeh denied imprisoned American Indian activist Leonard Peltier a fair chance at clemency and parole when they publicly protested against him in 2000, a lawsuit to be filed in federal court Thursday alleged.

Imprisoned Peltier seeks sentence reduction
Friday, November 9, 2001
American Indian activist Leonard Peltier wants a federal judge in Fargo, N.D., to reduce his murder sentence so the two life terms run concurrently, rather than consecutively. The change would give Peltier an earlier chance at parole.

Peltier committee adds board members
Friday, September 14, 2001

Briefly
Wednesday, February 7, 2001
•Peltier supporters plan campaign of information
•Ticket books now available for rides on Lawrence buses
•Salvation Army seeks block grant funds for shelter

Leonard Peltier not on list of last-minute pardons
Sunday, January 21, 2001
President Clinton ended his tenure Saturday by pardoning 140 Americans, erasing the criminal records of his brother Roger, Whitewater business partner Susan McDougal and 1970s kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst in a mix of personal and historical acts of clemency.

For Peltier supporters, Clinton's last day a 'day of shame'
Sunday, January 21, 2001
Kevin Bates

Supporters of Leonard Peltier, a former American Indian Movement member convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975, were "shocked and saddened" Saturday that clemency was denied by President Clinton.

Clinton unlikely to free Peltier, sources say
Thursday, December 21, 2000
President Clinton appears ready to reject convicted killer Leonard Peltier's bid for clemency, but the debate about the American-Indian activist's future has inflamed already tense relations between the White House and FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, officials said Wednesday.

FBI agents unite against Peltier
Saturday, December 16, 2000
Marching two-by-two and wearing blue memorial ribbons, hundreds of FBI agents staged an unprecedented demonstration Friday at the White House, protesting any presidential clemency for an American Indian activist convicted of killing two FBI men in 1975.

FBI agents protest clemency request for Leonard Peltier
Friday, December 15, 2000
(Updated 4:21 p.m. Friday) Marching two-by-two and wearing blue memorial ribbons, hundreds of FBI agents staged an unprecedented demonstration at the White House on Friday, protesting any presidential clemency for an American Indian activist convicted of killing two FBI men in 1975.

Reno rebuffs opinion
Friday, December 8, 2000
Atty. Gen. Janet Reno expressed misgivings Thursday about the public release of FBI Director Louis Freeh's recommendation against presidential clemency for an American Indian activist imprisoned for killing two FBI agents.

FBI chief asks Clinton not to release Peltier
Thursday, December 7, 2000
In a pointed plea, FBI Director Louis Freeh is urging President Clinton not to commute the life prison term of an American Indian activist serving a life term for killing two FBI agents.

Backers to demand clemency
Friday, December 1, 2000
By Mike Belt

Area supporters of Leonard Peltier will rally Dec. 10 in Kansas City, Mo., to demand clemency for him.

Clinton to review Peltier case
Monday, November 27, 2000
The White House says President Clinton will review all pending requests for executive clemency before he leaves office in January, including that of Leonard Peltier, the American Indian activist convicted of murdering two FBI agents in South Dakota.

Indian leaders to meet
Wednesday, September 13, 2000
By Dave Ranney

Seven key figures in the American Indian civil rights movement will gather Thursday at Kansas University for the start of a 2 1/2-day conference, "Red Power and Tribal Politics," that's likely to make history.

In her grandfather's footsteps
Thursday, July 20, 2000
By Tom Meagher
Journal-World Writer

Few of Alex Peltier's classmates at Free State High School recognize her or her famous last name.

Peltier defenders challenge FBI head
Friday, July 7, 2000
The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee has challenged FBI Director Louis Freeh to a live, nationally televised debate.

FBI is opening some files on Peltier
Monday, June 26, 2000
As supporters of Leonard Peltier gather to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the shootout at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the FBI is opening some of its files in the case against Peltier, an American Indian man convicted of killing two agents on the reservation. He denies killing the men.