Native American activist Leonard Peltier said spending the rest of his life in home confinement after being granted clemency by former President Joe Biden is "as good as freedom," after Biden's own FBI director opposed commutation for a man sentenced to life for the killing of two FBI agents.

One of Joe Biden’s final acts as president Monday was to grant clemency to an Indigenous activist convicted of fatally shooting two FBI agents execution-style in the head in 1975. Leonard Peltier, 80,

The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his remaining days in home confinement.

The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.

The FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) released a statement ripping former President Joe Biden for his last-minute move to commute the

This came from on high,’ said reporter Marc Caputo. ‘Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop.’

President Biden said the decision will allow Peltier, an 80-year-old Native American activist, to fulfill the remainder of his sentence from home.

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