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Earlier this month, this newspaper documented a pair of closed meetings held by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community.

I want to make it clear to our readers that this newspaper stands behind those stories. We granted space for a lengthy letter by Swinomish tribal attorney Stephen LeCuyer to express their version of the truth.

Our stories provided another example of how Swinomish and other tribes are given a venue to manipulate public policy that affects all of us by holding closed meetings with public agencies funded by taxpayers.

As we pointed out, it happens with the Bureau of I...