Pardoned U.S. Navy sailor Kristian Saucier says that the soon-to-be-released report from the Justice Department’s inspector general will show how James Comey improperly “decided who broke the law and who didn’t.”
Saucier, pardoned by President Trump earlier this year, was jailed in 2016 after being convicted of mishandling classified information. He unsuccessfully attempted to use a defense modeled after Hillary Clinton’s own statements throughout the FBI’s investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
“I think it’s going to be a bombshell,” he told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum Thursday night of the IG report. “It’s going to show how James Comey decided who broke the law and who didn’t. He interpreted the law in a completely different way for Hillary Clinton than he did me, and that’s just upsetting.”
“The American people should wake up every morning with faith that the justice system is going to protect them, that’s what it’s there for, not to imprison them.
He added that the “true enemy of the state isn’t the servicemen taking pictures of something he’s proud of, it’s the people changing the laws to benefit their cronies.”
“I’m going to fight for this as long as I have a breath in me … When I was in the military I fought enemies foreign, and now I fight enemies domestic, and that’s really what I believe Comey is. He’s a domestic enemy.”
Saucier is currently planning to launch a lawsuit against Comey and former President Barack Obama alleging that he was not treated fairly throughout his legal proceedings.
His conviction stemmed from several pictures he took of classified areas on-board a U.S. Navy submarine he was working on back in 2009.
“They interpreted the law in my case to say it was criminal,” he said Monday. “But they didn’t prosecute Hillary Clinton. Hillary is still walking free. Two guys on my ship did the same thing and weren’t treated as criminals. We want them to correct the wrong.”
