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Kristian Saucier, the former U.S. Navy sailor who served a year behind bars for taking photos of classified areas in a nuclear submarine, has been pardoned, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Friday.
Saucier recently received a letter from the Department of Justice saying it was taking a new look at his request for a pardon. Although he was released from jail last year, he remained under house arrest.
Trump had denounced the government’s handling of Saucier’s case, calling it a political move and saying it contrasted with the velvet-gloved response to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mismanagement of classified information through a private server.

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  1. On the one hand you have the full power of the government deployed against an enlisted seaman who had non – distributed photos on his phone. Threatened with a decade of hard time or plead guilty. On the other hand you have a powerful supposedly qualified cabinet secretary knowingly defying several laws. No two cases could more clearly demonstrate that the law treats people differently depending on power, status, and who you know.

  2. Sauce goose, sauce gander.
    Two wrongs = one right.
    Double standards — twice as good.
    Note to the next guy who takes unauthorized photos of classified material. Expect to be pardoned.

  3. Sorry to disagree but this character well deserved what he got. I was a nuke for 21 years and well knew that photography in classified spaces was a very serious no-no. My CO applied for permission to have a re-enlistment ceremony photographed in one of these spaces and received an unequivocal NO direct from DC even if the background was “sanitized” of classified subject matter and further got the ship an investigation. It was a hard and fast rule that we all knew and I am sure this clown also knew. He played a stupid game and won a well-deserved prize for his transgression. The appearance of “since Hillary did it with no consequence then it was okay for him” is crap and sets an undesirable precedent for future dumbassery both in the military and outside with even more serious consequences.

  6. Yes, he did it and knew or ought to have known how serious an offense it would be, so the punishment wasn’t unreasonable. But your C-in-C has that discretionary authority to pardon him and I’m sure other Presidents have given pardons to worse people. If President Trump is trying to use this to highlight what a former Secretary of State and some of her staff got away with I hope it works, though I would prefer the example be made by not letting her get away with it. Or at least not letting her staff get away with it. An example of underlings not getting protected by their boss’s expected advancement to greater power might give pause to people in similar positions and hobble the next Clinton-type chancer.

  10. Note to future Secretary of State who sends classified information through unsecured private server; expect to get away with it.

  11. butt john peat….erm…rizywannabee, what is your opinion on public servants getting away with sh*t us mere mortals go to the slammer for????????????????

  12. There’s lots cooking for HRC. Obama at least can look forward to going back to Kenya.

  13. Not if he’s hanging by his neck from a lamp post for his treason, doin’ the Mussolini dance.

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