{"id":78060,"date":"2018-03-04T08:13:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78060"},"modified":"2018-03-04T08:32:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T13:32:25","slug":"justice-department-processing-pardon-case-for-sailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78060","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department processing pardon case for sailor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Washington Examiner<\/a> reports the US Justice Department is processing a pardon for former US Navy sailor Kristian Saucier, after denying an opportunity to apply last year. Saucier was sentenced for one year in prison and awarded an \u201cOther Than Honorable\u201d discharge for taking photos inside a nuclear submarine. The photos were classified \u201cConfidential,\u201d the lowest classification level.<\/p>\n

People convicted of federal crimes generally have to wait five years after being sentenced before they can apply for a pardon, and a waiver request from Saucier was denied in May, even though Trump told Fox News days after taking office in January 2017 that he was considering a pardon.<\/p>\n

In its waiver-denial letter to Saucier\u2019s then-attorney Jeffrey Addicott, the Justice Department\u2019s Office of the Pardon Attorney wrote on May 30: \u201cUpon careful review of the information you submitted, we have concluded that it would not be appropriate to grant a waiver of the waiting period in Mr. Saucier\u2019s case to permit him to apply for a pardon at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I can confirm there is a pending case open. We have no further comment,” said Justice Department spokeswoman Nicole Navas Oxman.<\/p>\n

In late February, the Justice Department sent another letter, saying Saucier’s pardon application is now being processed. \u201cWe will now be processing the application for presidential pardon of your client, Kristian Saucier,\u201d the Office of the Pardon Attorney wrote to Addicott, who forwarded the letter to Saucier\u2019s current attorney, Ronald Daigle.<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for the White House did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

President Trump repeatedly mentioned Saucier during the 2016 campaign, after he was sentenced. He argued Saucier was punished for doing very little compared to Hillary Clinton. Clinton was judged to be \u201cGrossly Negligent\u201d in mishandling classified information when she and her aides transmitted 110 emails containing classified information through her non-secure server, among other violations.<\/p>\n

Reduction in rate to E-1, loss of all pay and allowances, a year in prison and an OTH seem a bit steep to me for a Confidential act of stupidity; an example was made here. This pardon is rather obviously being fast tracked for political reasons- Trump will use it to bludgeon Clinton for her egregious, unpunished security violations. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019m OK with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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