Bobo sends us the news that President Trump has pardoned Kristian Saucier, the sailor who had violated his security clearance agreements and took pictures of the interior of USS Alexandria submarine.
Saucier, now 31, was 22 years old when he took the cellphone photos in 2009. He pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized possession and retention of national defense information and his attorneys unsuccessfully requested the “Clinton deal,” meaning little if any punishment.
The six photos found on a cellphone Saucier discarded were deemed “confidential,” meaning the lowest level of classification, even though some depicted the vessel’s nuclear reactor. Clinton, by contrast, sent and received more highly classified information on a private and insecure email server. In pleading guilty, Saucier admitted to destroying evidence after being questioned.
Saucier got the news in a text message from his wife while he was driving his garbage truck in Vermont – the only job he could find with his felony conviction on his record. Saucier completed his year-long sentence last year.
Right or wrong, the “Clinton deal” defense probably carried more weight with the president than it did with the jury.
Color me surprised. I’m sure this was more of an FU to Clinton that it is any indication of how Trump actually feels about the case at hand.
I’d rather we hold Clinton accountable instead of excusing similar actions.
Ditto re: accountability.
Well, I doubt we’ll see anything like the #Benghazibitch doing prison time anywhere in the future.
There are two or three judicial systems in America now.
And we are in the lowest one…
The list of people that deserve prison time in America, but we will just have to wait for the real judgement at the other side of the bridge for most of them and pray that the Judge saw all the crap that was pulled in the demrat party…
If for nothing else, I am glad he was given a pardon and I hope that the cuntoon defense is used on a million cases in the future…
Welcome to Vermont, avoid Burlington.
The nicest thing about Burlington is that it is close to Vermont.
“NYC North”
But the BLM flag at UVM gives it all class.
Gotta love the BLM loons at a school over 90 percent WHITE (<1% black) in a state over 95 percent white in a state 1.5 percent black.
When I was there, the UVM leadership went looking for a university president who was Black as a diversity hire. For some reason they couldn’t find a candidate willing to come to Vermont.
They spent $20,000 in legal fees to get that guy across the border from Canada. Like school taxes arn’t high enough as it is.
I have never heard that before but it is 100% correct!
We worked this one over pretty well when the prep was released that a pardon was under consideration. If I may sum it up…he was an asshole but not a spy.
Summed up nicely. I totally agree.
I am happy for him, that he caught some slack. Rules are rules, orders are orders and he disrespected that. May he go forth with his life with the benefit of having learned something the hardway.
Discussed at length here:
https://www.azuse.cloud/?p=78060
Now Trump will roll the pardon into a tight cylinder and jab Das Hildebeast in the eye with it.
And I’m good with that.
Needs to pardon Lt. Clint Lawrence.
Concur.
Hell yes…………and MSG John Hatley!
Trump will probably wait until his last day in office in regards to commuting Hatley and Lawrence’s sentences.
I am glad this long road for him has come to an end. And while it did bother me he suffered while Clinton makes millions of dollars but should be in jail, he did violate what he should not have. I’m not one to talk. I have a few pictures I should not have. The difference is I don’t share them with anyone.
Amen.
Hard Life lesson learned.
Good for both of them.
OK, I’ll be the contrarian. IMO, the POTUS “done fooked up”.
This guy not only took and retained multiple classified photos w/o authority, he also obstructed justice afterwards. His plea deal was to plead guilty to a single count of unauthorized possession in order to avoid convictions on the other counts.
A year and a felony record for that seems about right. Granting him a pardon tells everyone, “Well, that’s not so bad.” Unfortunately, it is.
True, Clintoon appears to have “gotten over” after committing worse offenses. But that’s also a completely different issue. It’s irrelevant to this case.
I can live with the outcome. But I think the POTUS goofed here – badly. IMO commuting any remaining probation would have been justified but a pardon wasn’t.