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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill President Obama pardon Leonard Peltier?
Might as well get a few more high profile cases in and give his detractors something to really bitch about for the rest of their lives.
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Will President Obama pardon Leonard Peltier? (Original Post)
Hekate
Jan 2017
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ismnotwasm
(41,975 posts)1. I would love to see this
Unfortunately I doubt it will happen
Hekate
(90,629 posts)2. I didn't think he'd pardon Chelsea Manning, so who knows what might happen.
Obama also just sent $500 million over to the UN Climate group.
Renew Deal
(81,852 posts)3. A name you hear every 4 years.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)4. He needs to. Leonard is in very poor health and suffered enough.
Agents and a prosecutor who worked the case have submitted letters to Obama asking for his release.
If not now, he'll die soon, in a hole, after a dirty prosecution for an act that could have been prevented.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)5. Depends on how badly he wants to piss off the FBI. nt
Hekate
(90,629 posts)6. What, more than they are already? What is Comey gonna do? Pretend he has Obama's emails?
True that