He will use any means to gain freedom for the purpose of undermining the principles of the United States government. He has already determined that human life is expendable for this purpose. Lopez, declined the President's offer of clemency. Segarra Palmer accepted the President's offer of clemency. They were not informed of the clemency decisions.
Activists seeking clemency did get such meetings.
The Bureau of Prisons was not consulted. The White House did not ask for a review of telephone conversations to determine predisposition for violence. The F.B.I. was not aware that the President was seriously entertaining the petitions for clemency. The Bureau was neither asked for, nor provided, a current assessment of the risks associated with offering pardons to the 16 FALN terrorists. Whether he is right or wrong, we will have to try to get as much information as we can to make a judgment.