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Bunkerboi's gettin' a jump on the day!
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 wasn’t fair!Link to tweet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian_Saucier#Crime_and_conviction
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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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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