[Announce-DAN] FWD: pressure congress to support declassification

[Doc Rosen <drdrdoc@dr.com>]

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WRITE TO YOUR SENATORS AND REPS
PUSH FOR DECLASSIFICATION AND INVESTIGATIONS

To find out contact information for the officials in
your state, visit these
sites:

www.house.gov
www.senate.gov

or call: 202-224-3121

To : United States Senator ______or Representative_____
United States Congress
Washington D.C.


>From : NAME AND ADDRESS



Dear _________________,


I am writing to express my shock and outrage over the
recent denial of
clemency to Mr. Leonard Peltier. I am also writing to
ask for your help and
support in this tragic case.

As you know, Mr. Peltier is a Native American citizen
of this country who
has now been incarcerated for twenty-five years,
following his highly
controversial conviction of the 1975 murders of two FBI
agents. He has never
received the benefit of a fair trial, despite the
worldwide outcry of human
rights and religious leaders. Despite disturbing
evidence that vengeful FBI
officials coerced witnesses, utilized false testimonies
and withheld a key
ballistics test reflecting his innocence, Mr. Peltier
was denied a new trial
on technical grounds. Today even the United States
Attorney admits that no
one knows who fired the fatal shots. The Judge who
denied the new trial has
written to firmly support Mr. Peltier's release.
Meanwhile, Mr. Peltier
himself is long overdue for parole and in failing
health. This case is an
embarrassment to our nation.

To make matters worse, Mr. Peltier's highly
controversial conviction is
deeply rooted in the Pine Ridge "Reign of Terror", when
FBI-backed
vigilantes killed 64 AIM members and supporters, and
terrorized, assaulted
and battered scores of others. There has never been any
adequate
investigation or redress of this grim chapter of civil
rights history. For
all of these reasons, Mr. Peltier has become a symbol
of ongoing U.S.
repression against the first citizens of this country.

Given all of the above, I am asking for the following :

1. Please press for a thorough and bi-partisan
investigation of this case,
together with the FBI abuses which occurred during the
Reign of Terror on
Pine Ridge Reservation, 1973-1976.

2. Please press for a Congressional Act declassifying
all of the FBI and
related files in Mr. Peltier's case. Some 6000
documents, remain in secret
files, despite the fact that twenty five years have
passed and the
investigation and court proceedings ended long ago.
Given that some of the
files released earlier contained the critical and
exculpatory ballistics
test which the FBI had concealed from the defense, we
are convinced that
these secret files contain critical information.


We thank you for your time and consideration to this
matter.



Sincerely,



Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
PO Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-5774
www.freepeltier.org
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