What do people think about Leonard Peltier is he innocent?
Why do you think he’s guilty? The American government had an agency called COINTELPRO (or counter-intelligence program) that wanted to shut down the American Indian Movement (or AIM) and they did. If there’s any new evidence in the Peltier case, he should be given a new trial and if found innocent by a jury of his peers, he should be set free and be compensated for the time he served. COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. The FBI used covert operations from its inception; however the formal COINTELPRO operations took place between 1956 and 1971.[1] The FBI motivation at the time was “protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order.” Targets included groups suspected of being subversive, such as communist and
