Former U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Kristian Saucier blasted the Justice Department on Fox News Tuesday night for exhibiting a glaring “double standard.” He said it set “an example” through his own case of the mishandling of sensitive information while giving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aides a pass for using private email servers to conduct sensitive government business.

Saucier served one year in prison for taking unauthorized photos inside a nuclear submarine in 2009. President Donald Trump reignited the issue in a tweet on Tuesday in which he called upon the Justice Department to “finally act” against top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, in particular, for “disregarding basic security protocols” while serving in the State Department.

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“I think [Trump’s] pointing out some serious issues that the FBI and the DOJ [had] under [James] Comey and Andrew McCabe,” Saucier told Sandra Smith on Fox News’ “The Story.”

“These were the same guys who were investigating me at the same time they were supposedly investigating Hillary Clinton and her cronies,” Saucier added. “And, you know, they couldn’t wait to exonerate them before they’d even conducted interviews, whereas they were chomping at the bit to destroy my life, which is exactly what they did.”

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Trump tweeted on Tuesday, “Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept. must finally act? Also on Comey & others.”

The Daily Caller first reported Monday that Abedin forwarded sensitive emails containing government passwords to her personal Yahoo email address before Yahoo suffered a systemwide breach affecting all accounts.

Saucier, who served 11 years and was deployed twice to the Middle East, argued that a “double standard” existed because he and his family “lost everything” while Clinton, Abedin and other aides avoided prosecution.

“They should still be charged — the same as me,” Saucier said. “I’m not trying to minimize what I did. I made a mistake and that’s why I took responsibility.”

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The former U.S. Navy sailor said that Clinton and Abedin “did exactly what [the Justice Department] accused me of doing.”

“Basically, I took security information — the pictures of my submarine — and put it on an insecure device, my cellphone. That’s what I got charged with — unlawful retention of national defense information,” Saucier said.

“They should still be charged — the same as me,” Saucier said.

“It’s very difficult for me watching as this very same FBI that was supposedly protecting us from people that mishandle classified information — well, that’s what they said was my case, that they needed to set an example,” Saucier added. “Well, why aren’t they setting an example of this egregious violation that Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills did?”

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