Here comes Roger Stone‘s ‘time in the barrel’
The Atlentic:
On March 17, 2017, WikiLeaks tweeted that it had never communicated with Roger Stone, a longtime confidante and informal adviser to President Donald Trump. In his interview with the House Intelligence Committee last September, Stone, who testified under oath, told lawmakers that he had communicated with WikiLeaks via an “intermediary,” whom he identified only as a “journalist.” He declined to reveal that person’s identity to the committee, he told reporters later.
Private Twitter messages obtained by The Atlantic show that Stone and WikiLeaks, a radical-transparency group, communicated directly on October 13, 2016—and that WikiLeaks sought to keep its channel to Stone open after Trump won the election. The existence of the secret correspondence marks yet another strange twist in the White House’s rapidly swelling Russia scandal. Stone and Trump have been friends for decades, which raises key questions about what the president knew about Stone’s interactions with Wikileaks during the campaign. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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A screenshot of the exchange, which has not been previously reported, was provided to the House Intelligence Committee last year by a third-party source. …
Oh, Roger, Roger, Roger — that’s gonna leave a mark!
Seth Abramson:
BREAKING: Per Atlantic Story, Roger Stone Could Now Be Charged With a Federal Felony at Any Time for Lying Under Oath to Congress
(In other words, Mueller has him if/when he wants him—it’s only a question of the timing and manner of the indictment, now. And Stone knows a *lot*.) pic.twitter.com/LB5VD2plrE
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 27, 2018
Welcome to the barrel, Roger!
