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Washed up Creepster John Bolton is a lowlife who should be in jail, money seized, for disseminating, for profit, highly Classified information. Remember what they did to the young submarine sailor, but did nothing to Crooked Hillary. I ended up pardoning him - It wasnt fair!Link to tweet
BusyBeingBest
(8,059 posts)hired that lowlife creepster for a top position in his administration...hoo boy, there's going to be ass whoopins!
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)(had to look it up)
A US Navy sailor was sentenced on Friday to a year in prison for taking photos of classified areas inside a nuclear attack submarine while it was in port in Connecticut.
Kristian Saucier, of Arlington, Vermont, appeared in federal court in Bridgeport, where a judge also ordered him to serve six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring during a three-year period of supervised release after the prison time. He pleaded guilty in May to unauthorized detention of defense information and had faced five to six years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.
Saucier admitted to taking six photos of classified areas inside the USS Alexandria in 2009 when it was in Groton and he was a 22-year-old machinist mate on the submarine. The photos showed the nuclear reactor compartment, the auxiliary steam propulsion panel and the maneuvering compartment, prosecutors said.
Saucier took the photos knowing they were classified, but did so only to be able to show his family and future children what he did while he was in the Navy, his lawyers said. He denied sharing the photos with any unauthorized recipient.
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safeinOhio
(32,736 posts)Was about to google it too.
underpants
(182,950 posts)It just happened to be picked up by a Navy vet who knew what the pics were and reported it.
I think thats how the story went.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Crime and conviction
Saucier was a machinist's mate on board the submarine USS Alexandria from September 2007 to March 2012. In 2009, Saucier took photographs of classified areas on the submarine while it was moored at Naval Submarine Base New London in Connecticut. The photographs showed components of the submarine nuclear propulsion system, including "various control panels, a panoramic view of the reactor compartment and a panel that showed the condition and exact location of the submarine at the time the photo was taken." FBI forensics showed that some of the photographs were taken at unusual hours, such as one photograph taken at 4 a.m. and others taken at 1:30 a.m. Personal electronic devices are prohibited aboard U.S. submarines owing to sensitive areas on board. In March 2012, Saucier left his phone at a waste transfer station (dump) in Hampton, Connecticut, where the photographs were discovered by a supervisor. The supervisor contacted a retired Navy officer, who alerted the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI said that after being interviewed by FBI agents, Saucier destroyed his camera and computer and disposed of their parts. At the time, Saucier held the rank of petty officer first class.
Saucier was arrested in May 2015 and charged with unlawful retention of national defense information and obstruction of justice in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. In May 2016, he pleaded guilty to unlawful retention of national defense information. In August 2016, U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill sentenced Saucier to one year in federal prison. He was given an other-than-honorable discharge from the Navy. At sentencing, Saucier unsuccessfully argued for probation rather than imprisonment on the basis that Hillary Clinton was not indicted for her email controversy. Saucier's lawyers acknowledged that the two cases were different: Saucier admitted knowing that what he was doing was illegal. Judge Underhill rejected this argument as weak, but sentenced Saucier to one year in prison (rather than the five to seven years under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines) because he determined Saucier to be "fundamentally...a good person" who had done a "beyond stupid" act.
Saucier served his sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Devens. He was released from prison in September 2017.
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underpants
(182,950 posts)FTW! Me!
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Got off easy.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Much appreciated.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)Blah blah blah. Go away, Trump.
mnmoderatedem
(3,732 posts)information cannot be classified and false at the same time.
malaise
(269,219 posts)Prison awaits
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,097 posts)Same shit. Different day.
grumpyduck
(6,272 posts)I dunno, but I would think the MSM should weigh in on this and either say what it was or say there's nothing classified in there. Until this happens, the guy and his followers are going to keep talking about it. Without ever pointing to it.
I'm so sick of this bullshit.
Best_man23
(4,910 posts)2naSalit
(86,843 posts)Look at spelling and punctuation.
captain queeg
(10,273 posts)Im sure hes proud of that pardon
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I'm confused.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)to block the release of the book because it contained classified information, they admitted that there was no classified information in the book.
So, yeah.
After conducting an initial review of the manuscript on January 23, 2020, Ms. Knight informed Defendant, through his counsel, that the manuscript appears to contain significant amounts of classified information, including information classified at the Top Secret level. Mitman Decl., Exh. E, Letter from E. Knight to C. Cooper, Jan. 23, 2020. Ms. Knight thus instructed Defendant that his manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information. Id. Over the next few months, Ms. Knight worked with Defendant to review his manuscript and to excise classified information. See Compl. ¶¶ 32-46. On multiple occasions, Defendant was told that he would need final written approval before he could proceed with publication.
By April 27, Ms. Knight had completed her review and was of the view that the manuscript draft did not contain classified information.