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Muellers Real Target In the Stone Indictment
https://politicalwire.com/2019/01/27/muellers-real-target-in-the-stone-indictment/
January 27, 2019 at 8:31 am EST By Taegan Goddard 490 Comments
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Julian Sanchez: For many, Fridays arrest of Roger Stone, the veteran political trickster and longtime adviser to Donald Trump, was a sign that the special counsel investigation into Russian electoral interference is entering its final phase. Yet there were also several indications that the probe may not be as near its conclusion as many observers assume and that the true target of Fridays F.B.I. actions was not Mr. Stone himself, but his electronic devices.
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FarPoint
(12,428 posts)This election was flipped for Trump by the Russians....hacking of voter machines I sense/ key Electoral College states......this election/ Presidency is actually a fraud....This is the real endgame issue...and trump knew...and thus knows...as do many GOP Congressional key leadership....
Mueller must go carefully, with a clean clear method to encompass the entire fraud ....this is what the true cover-up is about....in my intuitive sense of the situation.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Mueller is building a wall around Trump, and at a certain point, I hope the wall surrounds Trump.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)The clear implication is that any truly incriminating communications would have been conducted in encrypted form and thus could be obtained only directly from Mr. Stones own phones and laptops. And while Mr. Stone likely has limited value as a cooperating witness its hard to put someone on the stand after charging them with lying to obstruct justice the charges against him provide leverage in the event his cooperation is needed to unlock those devices by supplying a cryptographic passphrase.
Of course, Mr. Mueller is likely interested in his communications with Trump campaign officials, but the detailed charges filed against the Russian hackers alleged to have broken into the Democratic National Committees servers also show the special counsels keen interest in Mr. Stones communications with the hacker Guccifer 2.0, an identity said to have been used as a front for the Russian intruders. By Mr. Stones own admission, he had a brief exchange with Guccifer via private Twitter messages. On Mr. Stones account, Guccifer enthusiastically offered his assistance at the same time we now know Mr. Stone was vigorously pursuing advance knowledge of what other embarrassing material stolen from Mr. Trumps opponents might soon be released and Mr. Stone failed to even dignify the offer with a reply. With no easy way of getting hold of Guccifers cellphone, searching Mr. Stones devices might be the only reliable way for the special counsel to discover whether the conversation in fact continued on a more secure line.
Yet if Mr. Mueller is indeed less interested in Mr. Stone than the potential evidence on his phones and computers, the conventional wisdom that the special counsel probe is wrapping up and could issue a final report as soon as next month seems awfully implausible. Digital forensics takes time, and a single device could easily hold many thousands of messages to sift through. And if this really is the first time Mr. Muellers office is seeing the most sensitive communications from a key figure like Mr. Stone, its likely theyll come away with new leads to follow and new questions to pose to other witnesses.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)even if the fucking moron is indicted and impeached. Mueller could continue for a while even if we have gotten the crooks out of the W House. This goes into other countries and their leaders. What about the Saudis and other dictators who are in bed with the GOP? Their crimes are enormous and go back years and years.
Wounded Bear
(58,694 posts)I watch NCIS, they always go for the laptop and the phones.
mitch96
(13,924 posts)Shoot, Abby is gone so what is Mueller gonna do??
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