Special counsel examines conflicting accounts as scrutiny of Roger Stone and WikiLeaks deepens

[MelissaB]

Source: Washington Post

In recent weeks, a grand jury in Washington has listened to more than a dozen hours of testimony and FBI technicians have pored over gigabytes of electronic messages as part of the special counsel’s quest to solve one burning mystery: Did longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone — or any other associate of the president — have advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ plans to release hacked Democratic emails in 2016?

While outwardly quiet for the last month, Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have been aggressively pursuing leads behind the scenes about whether Stone was in communication with the online group, whose disclosures of emails believed to have been hacked by Russian operatives disrupted the 2016 presidential campaign, according to people familiar with the special counsel probe.

Stone, who boasted during the race that he was in touch with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has said since that his past comments were exaggerated or misunderstood. Both he and WikiLeaks have adamantly denied they were in contact.

However, prosecutors are closely examining both public comments and alleged private assertions that Stone made in 2016 suggesting he had a way to reach Assange, the people said.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/special-counsel-examines-conflicting-accounts-as-scrutiny-of-roger-stone-and-wikileaks-deepens/2018/10/21/db9ab1c2-bde5-11e8-be70-52bd11fe18af_story.html?utm_term=.a2df85b23633

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Get Me Roger Stone

It has to be Indictment Week

[MelissaB]

1. ... another snip

“I remember saying, ‘Roger, I thought you had a back channel,’” Credico said. “He said something to the effect of, ‘Yes, but I can’t use him all the time.’” Credico relayed that account to the grand jury last month, according to a person familiar with his testimony.

Stone at first denied Credico’s claim that he suggested having a conduit to reach WikiLeaks, calling his old friend a “perjurer” and saying he’d relish the opportunity to confront Credico in court.

Later, Stone acknowledged to The Post that he “obliquely” told Credico in an email that he had “a second source” of WikiLeaks information besides the New York comedian.

He told The Post that person was not a direct conduit to WikiLeaks. He said he was referring to information another associate passed to him from a journalist who wrote in a July 2016 email that he had heard WikiLeaks would be releasing information related to the Clinton Foundation.

[dalton99a]

2. His turn is coming very soon

[Grasswire2]

3. let's dedicate this to Roger Stone....

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[dalton99a]

4. +1

[fountainofyouth]

5. If he does get indicted, it won't be this week

Or, at least, it won't be announced this week. Not until after the election.

[Scurrilous]

6. K&R