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Just days after the FBI announced it would not prosecute Hillary Clinton for her mishandling of classified information, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Kristian Saucier was sentenced to a year in prison for mishandling classified information, despite his plea for leniency based on the government’s refusal to prosecute Clinton. Now, Saucier is out of prison, deeply frustrated at very different standards of justice applied to him and Clinton, and determined to erase his conviction and move forward with his life.
In early July 2016, then-FBI Director James Comey offered a long public statement explaining Clinton’s poor conduct but ultimately deciding not to recommend prosecution because he saw no criminal intent on Clinton’s part. Saucier was a 22-year-old in the U.S. Navy in 2009 when he took six pictures of the propulsion system on board the nuclear submarine USS Alexandria, on which he was serving. Saucier says he knew he wasn’t supposed to take pictures in that part of the submarine but saw higher ranking personnel do it and simply wanted some memories of his proud service aboard the Alexandria. Furthermore, those who were charged for taking such pictures usually received a slap on the wrist such as probation............Read more
My Take - This is one of the many reasons I hated the officers when I served. It was bad enough you had to eat dirt for these people, but when it came to the rules - the rules were then, and are now, absolute when it comes to enlisted personnel. But the Uniform Code of Military Justice is a one way street when it comes to officers. It isn't uniform, it isn't a code and it isn't justice. It is military though, and that means whimsy is as much a part of military "justice" as anything. I've been out for almost 50 years, and I still dispise them. And that goes for the Justice Department, Comey, and now I think Sessions is just as bad.
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