WASHINGTON – A 29-year-old sailor in the U.S Navy who admitted to snapping six classified pictures of his nuclear submarine is imploring a federa🎃l court judge to treat him as leniently as Hillary Clinton.
Kristiaꦅn Saucier wants to be let off with probation at his sentencing Friday, arguing that the Democratic presidential nominee is not behind bars for mishandling even more classified mater𝕴ial.
“It will be unjust and unfair for Mr. Saucier to receive any sentence other than p𒉰robation for a crime those more powerful than him will likely avoid,” his lawyer, Derrick Hogan, wrote in a recent federal court filing in Bridgeport, Conn.
Saucier took six photos in 2009 inside the nuclear attack submarine, U.S.S. Alex🥃andria, that was i꧑n port in Groton, Conn. The photos were of classified and restricted areas that included the nuclear reactor.
There’s no evidence Saucier ever passed the photos to anyone and the sailor said it was “sil🧔ly” mistake by a then 22-year-old.
Saucier said he snapped the photos “to one day show his family and future children what he did while he was in the Navy,” according to court documents reviewed by🌌 The Post.
An FBI investigation into Clinton found 110 classified emails on her private email server while she was serving as Secretary of State. Although he called her “extremely careless,” FBI Director James Comey recommended against prosecution.
Saucier, a 2004 graduate of Mariner High School in Cape Coral, Fla., is married with one daughter, and three step-children. He pleaded guilty May 27 to one count of unauthorized retention of defense info🌠rmation. Sentencing guidelines recommꦿend 63 to 78 months in prison.
“Comey stated that ‘none of these emails should be on personal servers,’ however, the FBI recently recommended Ms. Clinton not be brought up on any charges as she lacked ‘෴intent.’ In our case,
Mr. Saꩲucier possessed six photographs classified as ‘confidential/restricted,’ fa𝓀r less than Clinton’s 110 emails,” Hogan wrote in the court filing.