Well, bobert, you'd best talk to Leonard's legal team, for they've been pushing for Clemencey now for a long time. He *does* have the power to grant it. I doubt he'll do it until he's about to leave Office for good though....but even then, he has his children to think about.....and trust me on this one, the FBI will stop at nothing to keep Leonard locked up. He should have been freed years back under 'normal' circumstances, but ain't nothing 'normal' about this case whatsoever....

>>>>As I said, the fact that he admitted shooting at FBI agents is plenty for me.<<<<

Many people shot AT them, the agents shot AT many people too, as did all the other agents, one of whom shot Joe Stuntz in the head, killing him immediately, but hey, Joe was 'just an Indian' right, so he didn't deserve a murder enquiry at all, whereas the agents got the biggest manhunt in the history of the USA...

And Jack, if you're the kind of person who'd stick someone in prison for near on 40 years already, with another 28 still to go, merely for shooting AT someone, bearing in mind the judge in the first trial, at which Leonard wasn't present, said the FBI brought it all on themselves because of their atrocious behaviour on Pine Ridge, then you need to look deep into your Soul....

Also, check out what was happening elsewhere on that very same day, that being the illegal sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of Pine Ridge to the U.S. government, for they wanted the Uranium, you see. It was sold to them by Richard Wilson (spit!) who got himself into power (illegaly) on Pine Ridge and who then oversaw the Reign of Terror, bringing in the FBI-backed GOONS to cause mayhem, havoc and deep fear amongst the People..

The FBI, who just happened to be there in vast numbers, all appearing only AFTER the shooting, were there, it is said by many people, to cause a diversion that day, thus taking the spotlight away from the jerk who was selling off the land of the Lakota to the Greedy Corporate Bastards and U.S. government...

Leonard was ONLY at Pine Ridge that day because he'd been asked to go there to help protect the women and children...

Sorry if you don't want to hear all this, and I know it upsets a few folks on Mudcat, but because of this shite going down an innocent man's life has been turned into a living hell.....

Had Leonard been at the first trial, he'd have been set free, as were the other three men arrested. And the judge said that even if they HAD shot those agents, the FBI were still hugely responsible for what happened, due to causing all the problems they had in the first place...

You should check it all out....
Then check out your President, who knows ALL about Leonard, but still refuses to do a damn thing...I'd be fuming, no matter which President it was...

And for your information, when Obama was first elected I sat over in England with tears running down my face, feeling this was the man who do so much good for America, but he kept up the Wars, he kept up the Drones, he kept Leonard locked away. And he silently signed America into Deep Fear one New Year's Eve......He even signed an apology to the Native Americans, but it was hidden amongst a ton of other 'stuff' so no-one got to hear about that, not even the Americans themselves, for the most part....Nowt as insulting as a Hidden Apology is there...."Hey, we're TRULY sorry for the Holocaust, but we'll just whisper about it, here in this little padded room where no-one will see us squirming and filling our apology with words that protect us from legal redress and have to return land, for heck, we're not THAT sorry!"

So, you'll excuse me if my tears have now dried for Obama and are shed, instead, for the Native Americans and for Leonard, in his 37th year of a 5'9" x 6' cell.....