1. Kristian Mark Saucier was born on c 1986 and is a former US Navy sailor who was convicted of unauthorized retention of national defense information and sentenced to one year in prison in October 2016 for taking photographs of classified engineering areas of USS Alexandria, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, in 2009.
In 2009, Kristian Saucier took photographs of classified areas on the submarine while it was moored at Naval Submarine Base New London in Connecticut.
In March 2012, Kristian Saucier left his phone at a waste transfer station in Hampton, Connecticut, where the photographs were discovered by a supervisor.
The FBI said that after being interviewed by FBI agents, Kristian Saucier destroyed his camera and computer and disposed of their parts.
At the time, Kristian Saucier held the rank of petty officer first class.
Kristian Saucier was arrested in May 2015 and charged with unlawful retention of national defense information and obstruction of justice in the US District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Kristian Saucier was given an other-than-honorable discharge from the Navy.
At sentencing, Kristian Saucier unsuccessfully argued for probation rather than imprisonment on the basis that Hillary Clinton was not indicted for her email controversy.
Kristian Saucier's lawyers acknowledged that the two cases were different: Kristian Saucier admitted knowing that what he was doing was illegal.
Kristian Saucier served his sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Devens.
Kristian Saucier requested a pardon in 2016 and 2017 but was denied a waiver needed to apply within five years of criminal sentencing.