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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums(The Smoking Gun) Trump loyalist communicated with "Guccifer 2.0," target of FBI probe
Last edited Thu Mar 9, 2017, 11:35 AM - Edit history (2)
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MARCH 8--In the months before Election Day, a longtime confidante and political consultant for Donald Trump was in contact with the Russian hacking group that U.S. intelligence officials have accused of illegally breaching the Democratic National Committees computer system and the e-mail accounts of Hillary Clinton campaign officials in a bid to aid Trump, The Smoking Gun has learned.
The contact between Roger Stone, the Trump associate, and the Russian influence operation came via private messages exchanged on Twitter, according to a source. Stones contact was with Guccifer 2.0, an online persona that U.S. officials say was created by Russian government officials to distribute and publicize material stolen during hacks of the DNC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Gmail accounts used by Clinton staffers like John Podesta, the campaign's chairman.
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Responding to media reports about the counterintelligence probe, Stone recently told the pro-Kremlin RT network that he had read that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had approved the wiretapping of his phone calls and the monitoring of his e-mail accounts. I dont know if thats true. *Im told that theres a grand jury convened, said Stone, who did not specify where he had learned about the supposed interception of his communications.
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http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/roger-stone-and-guccifer-913684
(* How would Roger J Stone Jr know if a grand jury were convened?)
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(The Smoking Gun) Trump loyalist communicated with "Guccifer 2.0," target of FBI probe (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2017
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Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)1. Thanks for sharing...
Doesn't surprise me, especially considering that Stone has admitted more than once that he had back channel contacts with Assange!!
OnDoutside
(19,969 posts)2. Assange isn't doing this for the love of Putin, so when does he
Get his reward ?
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)3. I think the fact he's not dead may be his reward.
OnDoutside
(19,969 posts)4. That might happen anyway (he knows too much), but I'd suspect a presidential pardon is more likely.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)5. which president? He's not American.
OnDoutside
(19,969 posts)6. Apologies, I was short circuiting my reply that Assange claims the US are after him, so he'd expect
Trump to call off the hounds.