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US Navy sailor jailed for taking photos of classified areas of nuclear submarine
Source: Associated Press
US Navy sailor jailed for taking photos of classified areas of nuclear submarine
Associated Press
Saturday 20 August 2016 01.54 BST
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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Associated Press
Saturday 20 August 2016 01.54 BST
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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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/us-navy-sailor-jailed-for-taking-photos-of-classified-areas-of-nuclear-submarine
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US Navy sailor jailed for taking photos of classified areas of nuclear submarine (Original Post)
Eugene
Aug 2016
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scscholar
(2,902 posts)1. Did so knowingly
Before any complains about Hillary.
msongs
(67,405 posts)2. what'sthe odds the ruskies know about all this "classified" stuff already nt
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)3. They didn't back in the 1970s.
Soviet subs were technologically behind their US counterparts in a couple significant areas. I suspect they're even further behind now.
LuvLoogie
(7,001 posts)4. Sorry. Not sad for him. A nuclear sub sailor should know better.