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Why Isn't Anyone Around Here Doing Anything About Leonard Peltier?;by Jennifer Bendery

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"There is an ailing 77-year-old Indigenous man who has been in prison for 46 years who never should have been there in the first place. Why is he still there?The reality that the FBI was at least partly responsible for the deadly shootout that day. The U.S. government officials who have since admitted how flawed Peltier’s trial was and called for his release. The main reason is that the FBI doesn’t want him out.their plan is to keep recycling a flimsy, face-saving argument for keeping Peltier in prison until he dies.The other reason is that many people in Congress simply don’t know who he is. Peltier has been in prison longer than some of them have been alive, and certainly longer than their political careers."

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