Editing Leonard Peltier (section)

===Ruling on FBI documents===
In a February 27, 2006, decision, U.S. District Judge [[William M. Skretny|William Skretny]] ruled that the FBI did not have to release five of 812 documents relating to Peltier and held at their Buffalo field office. He ruled that the particular documents were exempted on the grounds of "national security and FBI agent/informant protection". In his opinion, Judge Skretny wrote, "Plaintiff has not established the existence of bad faith or provided any evidence contradicting (the FBI's) claim that the release of these documents would endanger national security or would impair this country's relationship with a foreign government." In response, Michael Kuzma, a member of Peltier's defense team, said, "We're appealing. It's incredible that it took him 254 days to render a decision." Kuzma added, "The pages we were most intrigued about revolved around a teletype from Buffalo ... a three-page document that seems to indicate that a confidential source was being advised by the FBI not to engage in conduct that would compromise attorney-client privilege." Several of Peltier's supporters have taken legal action in an attempt to obtain more than 100,000 pages of documents from FBI field offices, claiming that the files should have been turned over at the time of his trial or following a [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA) request filed soon after.<ref>[http://www.prisonactivist.org/pipermail/prisonact-list/2006-February/010574.html "LDPC email"] {{webarchive|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070926232932/http://www.prisonactivist.org/pipermail/prisonact-list/2006-February/010574.html |date=September 26, 2007 }}, Prison Activist.org</ref><ref>[http://lpdctexas.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_lpdctexas_archive.html Carolyn Thompson, "Judge Allows FBI to Withhold Some Peltier Documents"], AP, LPDC Texas Blog</ref>