Roger Stone: circle of collusion writ large in requested e-mails
The circle runs from Russian intelligence to Assange to Stone to the Trump campaign, and back again — at least as far as Assange
The indictment of Roger Stone, who was arrested on Friday by the FBI and charged with lying to US Congress, provides the first detailed evidence that Stone was a go-between for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign with WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. In 2016, WikiLeaks had and released a large numbers of e-mails that had been stolen by Russian intelligence from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Stone’s co-ordination between the campaign and WikiLeaks is substantive, from what the court filings show. Stone, a Republican political operative and confidant of Trump, got advance notice of WikiLeaks document releases that he passed on to the Trump campaign. That included information about an “October surprise”, which turned out to be the leaking of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s e-mails. Stone also allegedly sent messages back to Assange, through intermediaries, specifying the precise content of Clinton e-mails he would like to ...
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