{"id":78159,"date":"2018-03-09T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78159"},"modified":"2018-03-09T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:30:17","slug":"kristian-saucier-pardoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78159","title":{"rendered":"Kristian Saucier pardoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/trump-pardons-kristian-saucier-former-sailor-jailed-for-submarine-pictures\/article\/2651195\">the news<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 &#8220;Clinton deal,&#8221; meaning little if any punishment.<\/p>\n<p>The six photos found on a cellphone Saucier discarded were deemed \u201cconfidential,\u201d meaning the lowest level of classification, even though some depicted the vessel\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Saucier got the news in a text message from his wife while he was driving his garbage truck in Vermont &#8211; the only job he could find with his felony conviction on his record. Saucier completed his year-long sentence last year.<\/p>\n<p>Right or wrong, the &#8220;Clinton deal&#8221; defense probably carried more weight with the president than it did with the jury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us the news that President Trump has pardoned Kristian Saucier, the sailor who had &hellip; <a title=\"Kristian Saucier pardoned\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78159\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kristian Saucier pardoned<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}