Courts Deny Leonard Peltier Access to Thousands of Pages of Long Hidden FBI Documents

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For Immediate Release:
February 27, 2007
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COURTS DENY LEONARD PELTIER ACCESS TO THOUSANDS OF PAGES OF LONG-HIDDEN FBI DOCUMENTS.

In two separate decisions rendered this month, United States District Judge Donovan W. Frank and a three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit refused to order the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to release thousands of pages of documents relating to Leonard Peltier.
Both Judge Frank and the Appeals Court upheld claims by the FBI that release of the sought-after information would, among other things, cause serious damage to the national security of the United States and the war on transnational terrorism.
In 2003, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit declared that, “Much of the government’s behavior at the Pine Ridge Reservation and in its prosecution of Mr. Peltier is to be condemned. The government withheld evidence. It intimidated witnesses. These facts are undisputed.” Nevertheless, Judge Frank found that any evidence of prior FBI misconduct was “irrelevant.”
Michael Kuzma, attorney for Leonard Peltier in both cases brought under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) said that, “The Courts are unwilling to dispense justice when it comes to Leonard Peltier.” ....



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