Former Sailor suing the DOJ, Obama and James Comey

[rightwinger]

• Kristian Saucier spent 1 year in federal prison for taking souvenir photos of a classified area aboard the nuclear sub where he worked as a U.S. Navy sailor

• President Trump pardoned him this year but his life had largely been ruined as he was forced to work as a garbageman to feed his family

• Now Saucier is preparing to sue the Justice Department, former president Barack Obama and former FBI Director James Comey

• He says he received unequal legal treatment and cites their failure to prosecute Hillary Clinton for storing classified files on her private email server

• 'There’s a two-tier justice system and we want it to be corrected,' his lawyer says

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Unequal treatment huh?

Is there anything in the Constitution that demands that if you commit a crime you get equal treatment to everyone else that has committed this crime?

Er... NO.

Basically, if he wins, then every person who committed a crime similar to those that Trump gave pardons to the criminals, then they would ALL GET PARDONS.

Yes, dumbass as previously pointed out.......it is something called the l4th amendment. As in................"The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in 1868, provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws".

Now git back under dat rock boyo. hehheh

The 14th Amendment does not apply. The fact is that the 14th Amendment is the most abused Amendment. The fact is that he doers not have a leg to stand on. The cases are totally different. The sailor was taking photos of top secret equipment when he had no need to have it. Nostalgia does not excuse that. Clinton was entitled to the information. When her tenure as SOS was over, she deleted her personal e-mails and returned her work e-mails.

He does not have a leg to stand on.

What he did was wrong but it pales in comparison to what Hillary did. Also, why did you lie about Hillary's emails? Do you think everyone does not know the truth? Comey testified before Congress and laid her crimes bare. Don't you remember?

Hillary had a minor infraction unworthy of prosecution

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

• Kristian Saucier spent 1 year in federal prison for taking souvenir photos of a classified area aboard the nuclear sub where he worked as a U.S. Navy sailor

• President Trump pardoned him this year but his life had largely been ruined as he was forced to work as a garbageman to feed his family

• Now Saucier is preparing to sue the Justice Department, former president Barack Obama and former FBI Director James Comey

• He says he received unequal legal treatment and cites their failure to prosecute Hillary Clinton for storing classified files on her private email server

• 'There’s a two-tier justice system and we want it to be corrected,' his lawyer says

Read more: Sailor pardoned by Trump after photographing classified area of sub is SUING Obama and Comey | Daily Mail Online
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Unequal treatment huh?

Is there anything in the Constitution that demands that if you commit a crime you get equal treatment to everyone else that has committed this crime?

Er... NO.

Basically, if he wins, then every person who committed a crime similar to those that Trump gave pardons to the criminals, then they would ALL GET PARDONS.

Yes, dumbass as previously pointed out.......it is something called the l4th amendment. As in................"The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in 1868, provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws".

Now git back under dat rock boyo. hehheh

The 14th Amendment does not apply. The fact is that the 14th Amendment is the most abused Amendment. The fact is that he doers not have a leg to stand on. The cases are totally different. The sailor was taking photos of top secret equipment when he had no need to have it. Nostalgia does not excuse that. Clinton was entitled to the information. When her tenure as SOS was over, she deleted her personal e-mails and returned her work e-mails.

He does not have a leg to stand on.

What he did was wrong but it pales in comparison to what Hillary did. Also, why did you lie about Hillary's emails? Do you think everyone does not know the truth? Comey testified before Congress and laid her crimes bare. Don't you remember?

Hillary had a minor infraction unworthy of prosecution

Bullshit! If I had done the same thing while in the Navy, I would still be locked in Leavenworth when the world ended.

 

[rightwinger]

Unequal treatment huh?

Is there anything in the Constitution that demands that if you commit a crime you get equal treatment to everyone else that has committed this crime?

Er... NO.

Basically, if he wins, then every person who committed a crime similar to those that Trump gave pardons to the criminals, then they would ALL GET PARDONS.

Yes, dumbass as previously pointed out.......it is something called the l4th amendment. As in................"The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in 1868, provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws".

Now git back under dat rock boyo. hehheh

The 14th Amendment does not apply. The fact is that the 14th Amendment is the most abused Amendment. The fact is that he doers not have a leg to stand on. The cases are totally different. The sailor was taking photos of top secret equipment when he had no need to have it. Nostalgia does not excuse that. Clinton was entitled to the information. When her tenure as SOS was over, she deleted her personal e-mails and returned her work e-mails.

He does not have a leg to stand on.

What he did was wrong but it pales in comparison to what Hillary did. Also, why did you lie about Hillary's emails? Do you think everyone does not know the truth? Comey testified before Congress and laid her crimes bare. Don't you remember?

Hillary had a minor infraction unworthy of prosecution

Bullshit! If I had done the same thing while in the Navy, I would still be locked in Leavenworth when the world ended.

No you wouldn’t

Hillary did it with full knowledge and approval of her agency

 

[TheGreenHornet]

Let’s Run Down the Evidence
Clinton claims she had followed proper protocol regarding recordkeeping for her emails. The Department of State’s Office of Inspector General, on the other hand, determined that Clinton’s “method of preserving record e-mails” was “not appropriate.” OIG also determined that Clinton “should have surrendered all e-mails relating to state business” prior to her departure from State, something she plainly did not do.


According to multiple State Diplomatic Security Service agents, Clinton brought her personal mobile device into a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at the State Department, even though it was illegal to do so.

According to multiple Clinton aides, Clinton had personal computers in the SCIFs at both her Chappaqua and Whitehaven residences. This was just as illegal as bringing a Blackberry into the SCIF at State.

On Clinton’s personal e-mail server were nearly 100 e-mail chains containing nearly 200 e-mails, ranging in classified status from Confidential to Top Secret, drafted on unclassified systems. She did not initially surrender 12 of the chains to the State Department and FBI even though Clinton insisted both that she had never transmitted classified information on her server and that she had surrendered all work-related e-mails to the proper authorities. The classified material in these chains concerned not just the State Department but the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the FBI.

In June 2011, Clinton explicitly requested that classified material be sent over non-secure fax; she directed an aide to remove any “identifying heading” to cover up this deception. (Fully one-third of the FBI’s investigation into this matter, on page 25 of the primary report, is redacted.)

Clear Examples of Gross Criminal Negligence

These violations are bad enough—they would surely be enough to land anybody else in prison for a long time—but the entire affair was overshadowed by a stunning level of criminal negligence by just about everyone involved, Clinton included.

The FBI was unable to “recover all server equipment.” Because of this and “the lack of complete sever log data for the relevant time period,” the FBI was only able to conduct a limited forensic analysis of Clinton’s systems. Consequently, the FBI had to piece together their investigation from “witness statements, e-mail correspondence, and related forensic content found on other devices.” Clinton covered her tracks so cleanly that the FBI was forced to assemble a slipshod, cobbled-together investigatory profile of her e-mail system.

The FBI believes Clinton’s e-mail may have been “potentially vulnerable to compromise” in the first three months of usage, from January to March 2009. It wasn’t until late March that year that her private domain received an SSL certificate (and even then the SSL only encrypted login credentials and not the actual server content).

At the beginning of Clinton’s tenure at State, her IT specialist, Bryan Pagliano, spoke with an unidentified official who advised that any e-mail from a state.gov account to Clinton’s private sever be transmitted via a Transport Layer Security tunnel for added security. Pagliano claims this protocol was never implemented (the FBI was not able to determine it one way or another).


To establish a secure server, Pagliano implemented a Remote Desktop Protocol; he eschewed a Virtual Private Network, which would have been more secure, and the FBI acknowledges that RDP has “known vulnerabilities” hackers could exploit.

There was at least one “successful compromise of an e-mail account on the server.” On January 5, 2013, multiple IP addresses “matching known Tor exit nodes” were able to access an e-mail account on the server belonging to a former staffer of Bill Clinton. The FBI has not yet been able to determine the responsible party in the successful hacking attempt.

The FBI candidly admits it does not have one single mobile device from the 13 Clinton used to send e-mail via her private server. “As a result,” the bureau concludes, “the FBI could not make a determination as to whether any of the devices were subject to compromise.” Any one of those dozen-plus devices could have been hacked, but nobody knows it for sure (on at least a few occasions, a Clinton aide destroyed the secretary’s used mobile devices with a hammer).

At one point Clinton received a phishing e-mail that contained a link she may or may not have clicked on. If she had, “[her] device may have been infected, and information would have been sent to at least three computers overseas, including one in Russia.” Much of this paragraph in the FBI’s report is also heavily redacted.

She’s a Great Big Liar, and She Knows It
A great many of these revelations prove Clinton lied, repeatedly and with intent, in previous public statements and official testimonies. Clinton even appears to lie within the context of the report herself: in the second document the FBI released, she claims she “would keep her BlackBerry outside of the SCIF.” The testimony of State Diplomatic Security Service agents directly contradicts this claim.

Clinton is not ‘cleared’ in any sense of the word.
It is really quite obvious that Clinton is not “cleared” in any sense of the word. The FBI’s report is damning, and it underscores the howling absurdity of FBI Director James Comey’s recommendation not to indict. There is every reason to indict Clinton, to prosecute her, and probably to find her guilty of criminal negligence at the very least, if not outright willful violation of multiple critical federal statutes. How can any sane grown-up really conclude otherwise at this point?

We are, it is popularly held, a nation of laws, not men: in America, nobody is above the law, not even high-ranking federal officials. This is not a partisan matter; it is not an issue of squabbling sectarian politics. Hillary Clinton broke the law, demonstrably, repeatedly, and unquestionably.

In America, if you break the law, you see the inside of a courtroom; if you’re found guilty, you do jail time. Hillary Clinton assuredly deserves the former; she quite probably deserves the latter, as well. Clinton herself can deny this; reasonable, sensible people can no longer.....D. Payne

Daniel Payne is an assistant editor for The College Fix, the news magazine of the Student Free Press Association. Daniel's work has appeared in outlets such as National Review Online, Reason, Front Porch Republic, and elsewhere. His personal blog can be found at Trial of the Century. He lives in Virginia.

 

[deanrd]

taking souvenir photos of a classified area aboard the nuclear sub

That's what he did? Because someone sent Hillary something that wasn't marked classified was equal to what he did?

I can't believe anyone would defend this guy's outrageous behavior.

 

[deanrd]

Yes, dumbass as previously pointed out.......it is something called the l4th amendment. As in................"The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in 1868, provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws".

Now git back under dat rock boyo. hehheh

The 14th Amendment does not apply. The fact is that the 14th Amendment is the most abused Amendment. The fact is that he doers not have a leg to stand on. The cases are totally different. The sailor was taking photos of top secret equipment when he had no need to have it. Nostalgia does not excuse that. Clinton was entitled to the information. When her tenure as SOS was over, she deleted her personal e-mails and returned her work e-mails.

He does not have a leg to stand on.

What he did was wrong but it pales in comparison to what Hillary did. Also, why did you lie about Hillary's emails? Do you think everyone does not know the truth? Comey testified before Congress and laid her crimes bare. Don't you remember?

Hillary had a minor infraction unworthy of prosecution

Bullshit! If I had done the same thing while in the Navy, I would still be locked in Leavenworth when the world ended.

No you wouldn’t

Hillary did it with full knowledge and approval of her agency

Bush gave Condi and Colin the power to classify or declassify. Then he didn't have to worry about it.

 

[TheGreenHornet]

taking souvenir photos of a classified area aboard the nuclear sub

That's what he did? Because someone sent Hillary something that wasn't marked classified was equal to what he did?

I can't believe anyone would defend this guy's outrageous behavior.

Are you a milennial? That would explain it but perhaps you just a coinfused curmudgeon or sumptin lik dat....anyhow you have at best been misinformed and you totally do not get the point of the lawsuit. No on on here that I am aware of has defended his actions though some navy veteran did point out what he took a photo of would not of been of any value to the Russians or anyone else. But that is neither here nor there....the point being he did not get equal justice before the law....try and get your head around dat boyo! hehheh

 

[TheGreenHornet]

The 14th Amendment does not apply. The fact is that the 14th Amendment is the most abused Amendment. The fact is that he doers not have a leg to stand on. The cases are totally different. The sailor was taking photos of top secret equipment when he had no need to have it. Nostalgia does not excuse that. Clinton was entitled to the information. When her tenure as SOS was over, she deleted her personal e-mails and returned her work e-mails.

He does not have a leg to stand on.

What he did was wrong but it pales in comparison to what Hillary did. Also, why did you lie about Hillary's emails? Do you think everyone does not know the truth? Comey testified before Congress and laid her crimes bare. Don't you remember?

Hillary had a minor infraction unworthy of prosecution

Bullshit! If I had done the same thing while in the Navy, I would still be locked in Leavenworth when the world ended.

No you wouldn’t

Hillary did it with full knowledge and approval of her agency

Bush gave Condi and Colin the power to classify or declassify. Then he didn't have to worry about it.

Bush didn't worry about anything....he was not that cerebral....he was too busy defending Islam anyhow to bother with stuff he could delegate.

 

[candycorn]

he needs a new lawyer

This is a nothing burger deluxe

 

[candycorn]

The Dept. of Justice is looking at hillary's emails again.................Justice Department ‘Looking Into’ Hillary Clinton’s Emails— Again

Mueller must be getting closer

They are ramping up the Hillary diversions

Mueller will die disgraced.....a political hack who did his best to remove from office a duly elected President....what they do down in the banana republics....otherwise known as a coup d etat.

Mueller hasn’t said a word yet

How is he disgraced?

When he fails to get Trump impeached and it becomes obvious to all that his so called investigation was nothing more than a political witch hunt.

BTW lest we forget Anthony Weiner and his connection to hillary's e mails............State Department releases classified emails from Clinton aide Huma Abedin found on Anthony Weiner's computer

Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the election and the role that his people had

He has his best people looking into it
They can’t believe what they are finding

Nice

 

[westwall]

taking souvenir photos of a classified area aboard the nuclear sub

That's what he did? Because someone sent Hillary something that wasn't marked classified was equal to what he did?

I can't believe anyone would defend this guy's outrageous behavior.

She had over 100 classified documents in her email. Grow up.

 

[del]

she sold uranium pizzas to children.

 

[westwall]

she sold uranium pizzas to children.

Sounds like her. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[TheGreenHornet]

The Clinton Crime Family - Part 1 | Roger Stone | Stone Cold Truth

 

[rightwinger]

taking souvenir photos of a classified area aboard the nuclear sub

That's what he did? Because someone sent Hillary something that wasn't marked classified was equal to what he did?

I can't believe anyone would defend this guy's outrageous behavior.

Are you a milennial? That would explain it but perhaps you just a coinfused curmudgeon or sumptin lik dat....anyhow you have at best been misinformed and you totally do not get the point of the lawsuit. No on on here that I am aware of has defended his actions though some navy veteran did point out what he took a photo of would not of been of any value to the Russians or anyone else. But that is neither here nor there....the point being he did not get equal justice before the law....try and get your head around dat boyo! hehheh

He got justice
He admitted guilt and was sentenced

Whining about Hillary does not lessen his offense

Show a case where someone having a private email server went to prison

 

[TheGreenHornet]

Ex-officials who were prosecuted and had their lives upended for allegedly mishandling sensitive records are accusing the Obama administration of a "double-standard" in its approach to the Hillary Clinton email scandal.

This administration has charged more people under the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law once used to go after major breaches, than any other in history. While the FBI is looking into Clinton's server amid revelations of state secrets potentially passing through it, some critics -- including those charged under that act -- doubt the Democratic presidential candidate will get the same treatment.

"It's a double standard," said John Kiriakou, a former CIA counter-terrorism operative who spent two years in federal prison and three additional months under house arrest this year for leaking the name of a covert CIA official involved in "enhanced interrogation techniques."

Clinton is not accused of leaking. But the common thread in these cases is the handling of classified material. And the slow-moving arc of the email scandal -- marked by a trickle of revelations along with a web of evolving explanations -- stands in stark contrast to past cases where leakers and whistleblowers were punished aggressively.

Kiriakou, one of those defendants, sees different treatment for the Democratic powerhouse who led the State Department.

"The FBI is going to investigate [Hillary Clinton], but it is not up to them," he told FoxNews.com.

"If they [the FBI] want to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime, they can certainly find a crime with which to charge her," he added. "But there is no way the Obama administration is going to prosecute her. No way."

Thomas Drake, a former NSA official who after 9/11 went to Congress to sound the alarms about what he called unconstitutional surveillance, also says there is a double standard when it comes to applying classification law.

"I got hammered good," Drake told FoxNews.com.

Though the government's Espionage Act case against him fell apart in 2011, Drake practically lost everything and faced a mountain of legal bills. He pleaded to a single misdemeanor for "exceeding authorized use of a government computer," a violation he compares to "spitting on the NSA sidewalk."

"I think [Clinton] is vulnerable, but whether she enjoys what I call 'elite immunity,' we don't know," he said. "For much lesser violations people have lost their jobs. But when you get to the higher ranks, it's like another set of rules."

Since Obama took office in 2009, seven people have been charged under the Espionage Act -- all for leaking classified or sensitive information. Five -- Kiriakou, Shamai Leibowitz, Chelsea (previously Bradley) Manning, Jeffrey Sterling, and former State Department official Stephen Kim -- got jail time.

Kim pleaded guilty in 2014 to disclosing a classified report on North Korea to Fox News reporter James Rosen. His lawyer said the information at issue "was less sensitive or surprising than much of what we read in the newspaper every day." He did 13 months in prison. Sterling was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in May for revealing classified information about the CIA's effort to disrupt Iran's nuclear program to journalist James Risen. Edward Snowden, who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents on government surveillance, has been charged in absentia but has asylum in Russia.

Whether Clinton will get "hammered" is another question. According to reports, the FBI took possession of Clinton's private server last week. The IG for the intelligence community told members of Congress that at least two emails that traversed the device while she was secretary of state contained information that warranted a "top secret" label.

Clinton and her staff have been adamant that no email marked classified at the time was ever circulated through her email address or server. "She viewed classified materials in hard copy in her office or via other secure means while traveling, not on email," campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said in an email to supporters.

In his case, Kiriakou was charged with violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, two counts of espionage, and making false statements to the CIA Publications Review Board when writing his book, "The Reluctant Spy." All but the first charge were dropped. He pleaded guilty in exchange for a lesser sentence. But his wife, a top CIA officer, was pushed out of her job. With three children at home, the family went on welfare while Kiriakou was in prison, and fundraisers helped pay the mortgage on their Arlington, Va., home.

To this day, his lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, insists the name of the agent was already well known among the media and human rights community and was never published. Radack told FoxNews.com the Clinton case is "certainly indicative of the hypocritical double standard in Espionage Act prosecutions brought against low-level employee versus politically-connected people." She also lamented "over-classification" and called the Espionage Act an "ill-fitting tool" in these cases.

According to The Washington Post, the Clinton investigation is now being overseen by at least one prosecutor in the case of former Gen. David Petraeus. Petraeus was charged with keeping classified information at home in the form of secret "black books." He was given a two-year probation and a $100,000 fine, and today, reportedly is consulting with the White House on ISIS and Iraq and is the chairman of the KKR Global Institute.

Drake, on the other hand, now works at an Apple Store.

"They aren't going to treat [Clinton] the same way I was treated for sure," he said.

 

[rightwinger]

Ex-officials who were prosecuted and had their lives upended for allegedly mishandling sensitive records are accusing the Obama administration of a "double-standard" in its approach to the Hillary Clinton email scandal.

This administration has charged more people under the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law once used to go after major breaches, than any other in history. While the FBI is looking into Clinton's server amid revelations of state secrets potentially passing through it, some critics -- including those charged under that act -- doubt the Democratic presidential candidate will get the same treatment.

"It's a double standard," said John Kiriakou, a former CIA counter-terrorism operative who spent two years in federal prison and three additional months under house arrest this year for leaking the name of a covert CIA official involved in "enhanced interrogation techniques."

Clinton is not accused of leaking. But the common thread in these cases is the handling of classified material. And the slow-moving arc of the email scandal -- marked by a trickle of revelations along with a web of evolving explanations -- stands in stark contrast to past cases where leakers and whistleblowers were punished aggressively.

Kiriakou, one of those defendants, sees different treatment for the Democratic powerhouse who led the State Department.

"The FBI is going to investigate [Hillary Clinton], but it is not up to them," he told FoxNews.com.

"If they [the FBI] want to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime, they can certainly find a crime with which to charge her," he added. "But there is no way the Obama administration is going to prosecute her. No way."

Thomas Drake, a former NSA official who after 9/11 went to Congress to sound the alarms about what he called unconstitutional surveillance, also says there is a double standard when it comes to applying classification law.

"I got hammered good," Drake told FoxNews.com.

Though the government's Espionage Act case against him fell apart in 2011, Drake practically lost everything and faced a mountain of legal bills. He pleaded to a single misdemeanor for "exceeding authorized use of a government computer," a violation he compares to "spitting on the NSA sidewalk."

"I think [Clinton] is vulnerable, but whether she enjoys what I call 'elite immunity,' we don't know," he said. "For much lesser violations people have lost their jobs. But when you get to the higher ranks, it's like another set of rules."

Since Obama took office in 2009, seven people have been charged under the Espionage Act -- all for leaking classified or sensitive information. Five -- Kiriakou, Shamai Leibowitz, Chelsea (previously Bradley) Manning, Jeffrey Sterling, and former State Department official Stephen Kim -- got jail time.

Kim pleaded guilty in 2014 to disclosing a classified report on North Korea to Fox News reporter James Rosen. His lawyer said the information at issue "was less sensitive or surprising than much of what we read in the newspaper every day." He did 13 months in prison. Sterling was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in May for revealing classified information about the CIA's effort to disrupt Iran's nuclear program to journalist James Risen. Edward Snowden, who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents on government surveillance, has been charged in absentia but has asylum in Russia.

Whether Clinton will get "hammered" is another question. According to reports, the FBI took possession of Clinton's private server last week. The IG for the intelligence community told members of Congress that at least two emails that traversed the device while she was secretary of state contained information that warranted a "top secret" label.

Clinton and her staff have been adamant that no email marked classified at the time was ever circulated through her email address or server. "She viewed classified materials in hard copy in her office or via other secure means while traveling, not on email," campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said in an email to supporters.

In his case, Kiriakou was charged with violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, two counts of espionage, and making false statements to the CIA Publications Review Board when writing his book, "The Reluctant Spy." All but the first charge were dropped. He pleaded guilty in exchange for a lesser sentence. But his wife, a top CIA officer, was pushed out of her job. With three children at home, the family went on welfare while Kiriakou was in prison, and fundraisers helped pay the mortgage on their Arlington, Va., home.

To this day, his lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, insists the name of the agent was already well known among the media and human rights community and was never published. Radack told FoxNews.com the Clinton case is "certainly indicative of the hypocritical double standard in Espionage Act prosecutions brought against low-level employee versus politically-connected people." She also lamented "over-classification" and called the Espionage Act an "ill-fitting tool" in these cases.

According to The Washington Post, the Clinton investigation is now being overseen by at least one prosecutor in the case of former Gen. David Petraeus. Petraeus was charged with keeping classified information at home in the form of secret "black books." He was given a two-year probation and a $100,000 fine, and today, reportedly is consulting with the White House on ISIS and Iraq and is the chairman of the KKR Global Institute.

Drake, on the other hand, now works at an Apple Store.

"They aren't going to treat [Clinton] the same way I was treated for sure," he said.

No

Those are not the same thing

Show where anyone went to prison for having a private server

 

[westwall]

Ex-officials who were prosecuted and had their lives upended for allegedly mishandling sensitive records are accusing the Obama administration of a "double-standard" in its approach to the Hillary Clinton email scandal.

This administration has charged more people under the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law once used to go after major breaches, than any other in history. While the FBI is looking into Clinton's server amid revelations of state secrets potentially passing through it, some critics -- including those charged under that act -- doubt the Democratic presidential candidate will get the same treatment.

"It's a double standard," said John Kiriakou, a former CIA counter-terrorism operative who spent two years in federal prison and three additional months under house arrest this year for leaking the name of a covert CIA official involved in "enhanced interrogation techniques."

Clinton is not accused of leaking. But the common thread in these cases is the handling of classified material. And the slow-moving arc of the email scandal -- marked by a trickle of revelations along with a web of evolving explanations -- stands in stark contrast to past cases where leakers and whistleblowers were punished aggressively.

Kiriakou, one of those defendants, sees different treatment for the Democratic powerhouse who led the State Department.

"The FBI is going to investigate [Hillary Clinton], but it is not up to them," he told FoxNews.com.

"If they [the FBI] want to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime, they can certainly find a crime with which to charge her," he added. "But there is no way the Obama administration is going to prosecute her. No way."

Thomas Drake, a former NSA official who after 9/11 went to Congress to sound the alarms about what he called unconstitutional surveillance, also says there is a double standard when it comes to applying classification law.

"I got hammered good," Drake told FoxNews.com.

Though the government's Espionage Act case against him fell apart in 2011, Drake practically lost everything and faced a mountain of legal bills. He pleaded to a single misdemeanor for "exceeding authorized use of a government computer," a violation he compares to "spitting on the NSA sidewalk."

"I think [Clinton] is vulnerable, but whether she enjoys what I call 'elite immunity,' we don't know," he said. "For much lesser violations people have lost their jobs. But when you get to the higher ranks, it's like another set of rules."

Since Obama took office in 2009, seven people have been charged under the Espionage Act -- all for leaking classified or sensitive information. Five -- Kiriakou, Shamai Leibowitz, Chelsea (previously Bradley) Manning, Jeffrey Sterling, and former State Department official Stephen Kim -- got jail time.

Kim pleaded guilty in 2014 to disclosing a classified report on North Korea to Fox News reporter James Rosen. His lawyer said the information at issue "was less sensitive or surprising than much of what we read in the newspaper every day." He did 13 months in prison. Sterling was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in May for revealing classified information about the CIA's effort to disrupt Iran's nuclear program to journalist James Risen. Edward Snowden, who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents on government surveillance, has been charged in absentia but has asylum in Russia.

Whether Clinton will get "hammered" is another question. According to reports, the FBI took possession of Clinton's private server last week. The IG for the intelligence community told members of Congress that at least two emails that traversed the device while she was secretary of state contained information that warranted a "top secret" label.

Clinton and her staff have been adamant that no email marked classified at the time was ever circulated through her email address or server. "She viewed classified materials in hard copy in her office or via other secure means while traveling, not on email," campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said in an email to supporters.

In his case, Kiriakou was charged with violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, two counts of espionage, and making false statements to the CIA Publications Review Board when writing his book, "The Reluctant Spy." All but the first charge were dropped. He pleaded guilty in exchange for a lesser sentence. But his wife, a top CIA officer, was pushed out of her job. With three children at home, the family went on welfare while Kiriakou was in prison, and fundraisers helped pay the mortgage on their Arlington, Va., home.

To this day, his lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, insists the name of the agent was already well known among the media and human rights community and was never published. Radack told FoxNews.com the Clinton case is "certainly indicative of the hypocritical double standard in Espionage Act prosecutions brought against low-level employee versus politically-connected people." She also lamented "over-classification" and called the Espionage Act an "ill-fitting tool" in these cases.

According to The Washington Post, the Clinton investigation is now being overseen by at least one prosecutor in the case of former Gen. David Petraeus. Petraeus was charged with keeping classified information at home in the form of secret "black books." He was given a two-year probation and a $100,000 fine, and today, reportedly is consulting with the White House on ISIS and Iraq and is the chairman of the KKR Global Institute.

Drake, on the other hand, now works at an Apple Store.

"They aren't going to treat [Clinton] the same way I was treated for sure," he said.

No

Those are not the same thing

Show where anyone went to prison for having a private server

They went to prison for violating the same law that your hero the shrilary violated, namely the Espionage Act. Further she broke all of these other laws.
18 U.S. Code § 793 – Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
18 U.S. Code § 798 – Disclosure of classified information
18 U.S. Code § 2071(b) — Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
18 U.S. Code § 641 – Public money, property or records
18 U.S. Code § 1505 – Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees
18 U.S. Code § 1519 — Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations
18 U.S. Code § 1031 — Fraud against the United States
18 U.S. Code § 1343 – Fraud by wire, radio or television
18 U.S. Code § 1346 — Definition of “scheme or artifice to defraud”
18 U.S. Code § 371 – Conspiracy to defraud the United States
18 U.S. Code § 371 – Conspiracy to commit a federal offense
U.S. Code § 1924 – Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material

 

[rightwinger]

Republicans were running Congress
Their multiple investigations found nothing criminal from Hillary

Crooked Donnie will not be so lucky

 

[westwall]

Republicans were running Congress
Their multiple investigations found nothing criminal from Hillary

Crooked Donnie will not be so lucky

As is being exposed the obummer doj was interfering with those investigations. Pretty hard to get anywhere when the admin is corrupt, and their doj are complicit.