Wray urged Biden not to commute sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier

It'll be just as good as freedom, even if I have to stay in the house,

Peltier said on Monday in a phone conversation from prison with a member of the NDN Collective Indigenous rights group

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

Nicole Parkerwife

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

The FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) is outraged by President Biden’s 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

I hope these letters are unnecessary, and that you are not considering a pardon or commutation,

Wray wrote

For nearly 50 years, no fewer than 22 federal judges, multiple parole boards, and six presidential administrations have evaluated the evidence and considered Peltier’s arguments,

Wray wrote

I am beyond words about the commutation of Leonard Peltier, ... His release from prison signifies a measure of justice that has long evaded so many Native Americans for so many decades."

she wrote on X

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

Joe Bidenpresident

I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics,

Biden said in a statement announcing the pardons of Fauci, Milley and the members and staff of the January 6 committee

We have been pardoned today not for breaking the law but for upholding it,

they said in a joint statement

Joe Bidenpresident

My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me -- the worst kind of partisan politics,

Biden said

Why are we trying to help a guy like Milley?"

he said

I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights,

he said