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2018-03-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

POTUS Pardons US Navy Sailor Who Did ‘Nothing' Compared To Hillary

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#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|| 2018-03-10 05:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Mike, could this be a way to change the Overton Window?

Posted by AlanC 2018-03-10 07:28|| 2018-03-10 07:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-03-10 09:27|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-03-10 09:30|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-03-10 10:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-03-10 11:25|| Front Page Top

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