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| POTUS Pardons US Navy Sailor Who Did ‘Nothing' Compared To Hillary |
| 2018-03-10 |
| [Daily Caller] President Donald Trump pardoned Navy sailor Kristian Saucier who was jailed in October 2016 for taking photos aboard a U.S. nuclear submarine, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced in a Friday press briefing. Saucier was convicted of unauthorized retention of national defense information for holding onto the photos aboard the submarine that show classified technology. Trump repeatedly invoked Saucier’s case as evidence of the alleged wrongdoing of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign. Trump frequently criticized Clinton for her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state. He noted during the campaign that Saucier did "nothing" compared to Clinton. "They put him in jail. And you see what she does and she’s allowed to run for president. Folks do you know what it tells you? The system is rigged, and I’ve been saying that for a long time," Trump said, adding "It’s an old submarine, believe me, they have pictures of that submarine that nobody knows about, probably, right?" Saucier maintained throughout his proceedings that he did not mean to distribute classified information and noted that other sailors had posted similar photos without suffering any consequences. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 I get that there are things we do in the service that we can't share with our family and friends. I cheated; I married a co-worker who had the same clearances. There was a friend who majored in Chinese military history. We used to discuss Chinese ICBM's. That had to stop after I read the classified intelligence estimate. Still, everybody with a clearance gets a counterintelligence briefing once a year. Sailor Saucier had to know that what he was doing was wrong. A photograph could have caught unintended targets useful to the black hats. For the longest time, I used a Blackberry that lacked a camera because I couldn't bring a camera on site. Still, given that the beast walked, what was done to sailor Saucier lacked symmetry. So OK. |
| Posted by: Titus Fleter8116 2018-03-10 11:25 |
| #5 I don't know the details but if the pix were taken in port there is only a skeleton crew of watchstanders. The whole boat is almost deserted with a couple of rovers and the rest of the watchstanders working or sleeping. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-03-10 10:40 |
| #4 I kinda wonder what the watch officer was doing when the pictures were taken. If the gizmos and gadgets were classified stuff, why were any photography allowed at all... Of course, given the open access to all of our national defense technology that the Clintons and Zero gave to anyone and everyone, these pics are probably old news to the bad guys. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-10 09:30 |
| #3 Hey, he's just 'little people'. Yes, it was wrong, in both cases. Notice though, no equitable pardon for Von Pantsuit. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-03-10 09:27 |
| #2 Mike, could this be a way to change the Overton Window? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-03-10 07:28 |
| #1 ...Bad, bad move. The lad not only blew an integrity gasket, he ran right over all the other safeguards, lied through his teeth when he got caught, and did his damnedest to destroy evidence (and not very well at that). And his justification for asking for the pardon boiled down to, "I just wanted to show my family what I did, everybody else did it, and Hilary." I get that there are things we do in the service that we can't share with our family and friends. But we kept our words and didn't. This will open up a can of worms not worth just poking Felonia von Pantsuit in the eye. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-03-10 05:32 |