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</div><div>see KGB collusionbak 1119=an 5 22Three or more members of a pro-Roger Stone, pro-Donald Trump chat group called Friends of Stone are now facing charges in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/us/politics/roger-stone-jan-6.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">New York Times</a>.The Friends of Stone members are the Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio, Alex Jones associate Owen Shroyer and Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes. Times reporter Alan Feuer describes Friends of Stone as a combination of “‘Stop the Steal’ organizers, right-wing influencers, Florida state legislative aides and more than one failed candidate loyal to former President Donald J. Trump.”“The focus of the chat was always the man whose photo topped its home page: Roger J. Stone, Jr., a long-time political operative and adviser to Mr. Trump,” Feuer reports. “While little is known about what was said on the chat, the membership list of Friends of Stone, provided to the New York Times by one of its participants, offers a kind of road map to Mr. Stone’s associations, showing their scope and nature in the critical period after the 2020 election. During that time, Mr. Stone was involved with a strikingly wide array of people who participated in efforts to challenge the vote count and keep Mr. Trump in the White House.”Right-wing radio host Pete Santilli told the Times that Friends of Stone goes back to at least 2019.Santilli told the Times, “The primary reason for the chat was to have a place for supporters to share stuff. You drop a link, and everyone shares it on their nontraditional channels.”Feuer reports, “The group chat’s membership list…. (includes) activists like Marsha Lessard and Christina Skaggs, leaders of a group called the Virginia Freedom Keepers who helped to organize an anti-vaccine rally scheduled for the east side of the Capitol on January 6. Ms. Lessard and Ms. Skaggs worked with another anti-vaccine activist, Ty Bollinger, who was also on the list.”=<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/roger-stone-claims-there-is-a-satanic-portal-over-the-white-house/">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/roger-stone-claims-there-is-a-satanic-portal-over-the-white-house/</a>rww<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Elijah Streams” is a daily program produced by the <a href="https://www.elijahlist.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Elijah List</a>, a website with a <a href="https://www.elijahlist.com/mission.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">mission</a> to “find and publish the most credible prophetic words possible.” Generally, the content produced by both the <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/elijah-list/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">website</a> and the livestream program <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/famous-musician-ricky-skaggs-says-the-election-was-a-crime-and-god-will-return-trump-to-office/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">consists</a> of <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/robin-bullock-claims-president-hillary-clinton-would-have-ushered-in-the-great-tribulation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">wild</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/johnny-enlow-says-qanon-is-going-to-be-proven-so-thoroughly-its-just-going-to-be-indisputable/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">conspiracy theories</a>, often about <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/prophet-jeff-jansen-says-the-military-will-remove-biden-and-reinstate-trump-by-the-end-of-april/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">how God</a> is <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kat-kerr-hank-kunneman-and-the-hand-of-god/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">supposedly</a> working <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/johnny-enlow-says-the-college-football-national-championship-game-is-prophetic-confirmation-trump-will-remain-president/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">to save</a> the United States <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/robin-bullock-claims-president-hillary-clinton-would-have-ushered-in-the-great-tribulation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">through</a> modern-day “prophets” and <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/god-took-prophetess-kat-kerr-into-the-near-future-and-showed-her-trump-back-in-the-white-house/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">former President Donald Trump</a>.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">On Tuesday, longtime right-wing <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/02/the-dirty-trickster" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">“dirty trickster”</a> Roger Stone <a href="https://rumble.com/v12hd6l-special-broadcast-with-robin-bullock-and-roger-stone.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">appeared</a> on the program, and he fit right in, claiming to have photographic proof that a “satanic portal” has opened over the White House.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Stone—who was <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roger-stone-found-guilty-counts/story?id=67015102" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">convicted</a> by a jury on seven counts of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction in relation to special counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election—claims to have become a dedicated Christian because <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/roger-stone-declares-that-god-himself-gave-donald-trump-the-strength-and-the-courage-and-the-wisdom-to-pardon-me/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">God used Trump</a> to pardon him for his crimes. In this capacity, Stone claims to have developed a new appreciation for the importance of waging “spiritual warfare” through prayer.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stone asserted that a friend had sent him photos showing a “satanic portal” appearing over the White House after President Joe Biden took office, and so he reached out to conspiracy theorist and “prophet” <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/robin-bullock/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Robin Bullock</a> to arrange an appearance on “Elijah Streams” so he could share the startling news and photos.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“We who believe, we can close the portal, but we can only close it through prayer,” Stone <a href="https://youtu.be/wX2wZK6TahM" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">declared</a>. “Massive prayer, millions of Christians praying to close the portal.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It’s like a swirling cauldron,” Stone said of the portal. “I’ve tried to find some natural explanation: a reflection or an aerostat balloon for weather. No. I sent a personal friend down there—he thought I was crazy—I said, ‘Do me a favor, go down there, use a regular digital camera and see what you see.'”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At that point, the images were displayed on screen.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img loading="lazy" width="600" height="334" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-535651" src="https://files.rightwingwatch.org/uploads/Roger-Stone-Portal.jpg" alt="" srcset="//files.rightwingwatch.org/uploads/Roger-Stone-Portal.jpg 600w, //files.rightwingwatch.org/uploads/Roger-Stone-Portal-350x195.jpg 350w, //files.rightwingwatch.org/uploads/Roger-Stone-Portal-250x139.jpg 250w, //files.rightwingwatch.org/uploads/Roger-Stone-Portal-180x101.jpg 180w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; height: auto; max-width: 100%; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“There you can see it,” Stone proclaimed. “It’s very, very clear. It doesn’t move, day or night. It’s harder to see during the day, but you see it at night. And I’m absolutely convinced about the inherent evil of what’s going on in the White House, what’s going on in the country, and I think it’s imperative that people know about this, that people of good faith and Christians know about this, and we begin a national, essentially a prayer assault to close the portal.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“We were born for this moment,” Stone continued. “I’ve been preparing for this moment for my entire life without even knowing it. I just thought I was a political warrior. But this is no longer a war in the political realm, and I do know how it comes out because I know how the Bible comes out. I don’t know exactly what the plan is, but I do know that closing this portal is crucial to victory. I want others to talk about it. I want others to see it. … This is not some practical joke. This isn’t some conspiracy theory. I’m absolutely convinced that this is demonic. It is a satanic portal. It is access to this Earth by those who are evil, and only by closing it will we be successful in saving this nation under God.”={{{=<div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2015</div><div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/fox-news-promotes-bombshell-book-founder-anti-hillary-clinton-group-cunt-and-writer">https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/fox-news-promotes-bombshell-book-founder-anti-hillary-clinton-group-cunt-and-writer</a><div class="editorial-fullsummary" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 2.25rem; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); padding: 1.5rem 0px;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-content-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">Fox News is promoting The Clintons' War On Women as a “bombshell” despite the authors' history of dirty tricks and misogyny. Roger Stone is “America's most notorious political hatchet man” who formed an anti-Hillary Clinton group called “C.U.N.T.” Co-author Robert Morrow has wished death on Hillary Clinton and been visited by the Secret Service, posted bizarre sexual writings about the Clinton family, and called Chelsea Clinton a “slut” who might “have sex one day” with Bill Clinton.</div></div><div class="editorial-fullarticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 2.25rem;"><div class="field field--name-field-stories-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">Roger Stone And Robert Morrow Wrote The Clintons' War On Women</h2>Stone And Morrow Are Authors Of The Clintons' War On Women, A Book “Designed To Smear The Clintons.” Roger Stone and Robert Morrow are the authors of The Clintons' War On Women, which was released by Skyhorse Publishing on October 13. Veteran Mother Jones journalist David Corn noted that promotional material shows the book goes “real dirty” and is “apparently designed to smear the Clintons -- by depicting Bill as a serial rapist, Hillary as an enabler, and both members of the power couple as a diabolical duo bent on destroying anyone who stands in their way.” [SkyhorsePublishing.com, accessed <a href="http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/book/?GCOI=60239109951690&" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/13/15</a>; Mother Jones, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/roger-stone-book-trump-bill-clinton-hillary-rapist" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/18/15</a>]Roger Stone Is A Notorious Republican Dirty Trickster Who Has Smeared The Clintons For Years. Numerous media outlets have referred to Stone as a “dirty trickster.” He has a long history of smearing Hillary Clinton, including forming the anti-Clinton group “C.U.N.T.” (“Citizens United Not Timid”), because he couldn't find the right words for “B.I.T.C.H.” Stone previously worked as a top political aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign before exiting in August. Stone says he and Trump are “on cordial terms. We talk ... Trump has been my friend for 35 years. He's still my friend.” [Media Matters, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/05/did-fox-news-just-hire-this-misogynistic-profes/199618" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">6/5/14</a>; Talking Points Memo, <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/roger-stone-donald-trump-tpm-interview?utm_content=buffere7f9d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/2/15</a>] Robert Morrow Is An “Alternative Historian” Who Has Posted Bizarre Sexual Writings About The Clintons And Wished Death On Hillary. Morrow has an extreme history against the Clintons. He has wished death on Hillary Clinton and been visited by the Secret Service; posted bizarre sexual writings about the Clinton family; called Chelsea Clinton a “slut” and imagined how she would “have sex one day” with Bill Clinton; and claimed the Bush and Clinton families were involved in murders. The Tampa Bay Times wrote that Morrow “pretty much devotes his life to hating the Clintons and spreading wild, unsubstantiated allegations about them.”MSNBC reporter Alex Seitz-Wald wrote that Morrow is “well-known to reporters who have covered the Clintons, thanks to his tendency to flood their inboxes with incredible and incredulous fables of the couple's alleged criminal exploits,” while The Daily Beast's Andrew Kirell wrote that “Many political journalists can attest to having received a blaring email from the right-wing author claiming the Clintons forced Chelsea to undergo plastic surgery” to cover up that she's purportedly not Bill Clinton's real daughter. [Media Matters, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>; Tampa Bay Times, <a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/29/Worldandnation/Some_people_just_love.shtml" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2/29/08</a>; MSNBC.com, <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/latest-anti-clinton-book-promises-be-most-fantastic-yet" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>; The Daily Beast, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/13/inside-the-slimy-world-of-chelsea-clinton-conspiracy-theories.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/13/15</a>]  Trump Promoted Stone And Morrow's Book On Twitter. Trump wrote in an October 14 tweet that linked to the book's Amazon.com page: “The latest book on Hillary--Wow, a really tough one! http://www.amazon.com/dp/151070678X  @RogerJStoneJr.” [Twitter.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654309447381188608" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/14/15</a>] <h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">Fox News On The Clintons' War On Women: “Bombshell,” “Needs To Be Read”</h2>Hannity Endorses Stone And Morrow's Book: “This I Think Needs To Be Read By Anybody That Thinks Hillary Is A Champion Of Women's Rights.” During an October 13 interview on his Fox News program, Hannity said the “explosive new book completely destroys” the narrative that the Clintons are champions of women's rights. Hannity concluded that the book “needs to be read by anybody that thinks Hillary is a champion of women's rights.” [Fox News, Hannity, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2015/10/14/42535/fnc-hannity-20151013-stone" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/13/15</a>]  Hannity: “It's Really Worth Reading.” Hannity hosted Stone for a later panel discussion about the Democratic presidential debate and introduced his book by stating: “I tell you, it's really worth reading. A lot of interesting information.” [Fox News, Hannity, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2015/10/14/42538/fnc-hannity-20151014-stone" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/14/15</a>] Hannity Also Hosted Stone On His Radio Show. [The Sean Hannity Show, <a href="http://www.hannity.com/onair/the-sean-hannity-show-55176/details-from-the-clintons-war-on-14030680" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/13/15</a>]Fox & Friends Promoted The Book As A “Bombshell.” During Fox & Friends Sunday, co-host Anna Kooiman promoted “the allegations” from Stone's “bombshell” book that Clinton has “a dark and violent past.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends Sunday, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2015/10/04/42364/fnc-ffsun-20151004-clintonbook" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/4/15</a>]Fox & Friends Hosted Stone To Push The Allegation That Bill Clinton Sexually Assaulted “Hundreds Of Women ... And Hillary Runs The Cover-Up.” From the October 16 edition of Fox & Friends: <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;">STEVE DOOCY (HOST): A brand-new book taking aim at Hillary Clinton's hypocrisy targeting her war on women campaign, even highlighting how she and her husband, Bill Clinton, systematically abused women during their time in the White House. Joining us right now the author of The Clintons' War on Women, Roger Stone. Roger, good morning to you.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box;">ROGER STONE: Steve, great to be with you. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box;">DOOCY: What do we find out about the Clintons in your book? </div><div style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box;">STONE: Hypocrisy. “H” stands for both hypocrisy and Hillary. She says she's an advocate for women and that's true, as long as you're not one of those women unlucky enough to have been sexually assaulted by her husband.  It's very much like the Bill Cosby story. If it's sort of one or two women, you might say “well, it's some woman looking for a payday or the limelight.” But this is systematic. There are literally hundreds of women who have been sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton and Hillary runs the cover-up. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box;">DOOCY: What do you mean she runs the cover-up? </div><div style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">STONE: Well, she hires Jack Palladino. She hires Anthony Pellicano. She hires Ivan Duda, private detectives and then they take on the mission of silencing these women, lest they get in the way of the Clintons' rise to power. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2015/10/16/fox-still-promoting-founder-of-anti-clinton-hat/206207" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-bottom: 0px;">10/16/15</a>]</div></blockquote></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">Roger Stone's Latest Book Continues His History Of Dirty Tricks</h2>Stone Is A “Dirty Trickster” And “America's Most Notorious Political Hatchet Man.” The Miami Herald wrote that “Stone has become America's most notorious political hatchet man.” Numerous outlets have referred to Stone as a “dirty trickster,” including The Weekly Standard, New Yorker, Tampa Bay Times, New York Times, CNN, and Washington Post. [The Miami Herald,<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article2766816.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/14/14</a>; Weekly Standard, <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/617oiaek.asp" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">1/28/08</a>; New Yorker, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/02/the-dirty-trickster" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">6/2/08</a>; TampaBay.com, <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/trump-ally-roger-stone-publishing-books-attacking-hillary-clinton-and-jeb/2245763" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/16/15</a>; New York Times, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/movies/24client.html?r=0" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/22/10</a>; CNN, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/29/ltm.02.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">5/29/08</a>; Washington Post, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1986/06/16/the-rise-and-gall-of-roger-stone/d8ce308b-7055-4666-860e-378833f46e17/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">6/16/86</a>]Stone's Website Features Quotes Calling Him A “Master Of Right-Wing Political Hit Jobs,” “The High Priest Of Political Hijinks,” And “Master Of The Black Arts Of Electioneering.” The quotes featured on Stone's website come from, respectively, Politico, Weekly Standard, and Scotsman.com. Politico notes that Stone “publicly embraces his image as a dirty trickster.” [StoneZone.com, accessed <a href="http://stonezone.com/about.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/13/15</a>; Politico, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/donald-trumps-debate-dirty-trickster-121098" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">8/6/15</a>]Stone Became “The Youngest Watergate Dirty Trickster.” A 1985 New Republic profile of Stone reported:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;">He says he became a Republican at age 12, after a neighbor in Norwalk, Conn., gave him a copy of Barry Goldwater“s ”Conscience of a Conservative." Stone was devastated by Goldwater's defeat, but remained fully devoted to the party, rising through the ranks of youth groups like Teenage Republicans, College Republicans, Young Republicans, and the Young Americans for Freedom. As a 19-year-old student at George Washington University, Stone was the youngest Watergate dirty trickster. On orders from Creep boss Bart Porter, Stone hired Michael McMinoway -- known as “Sedan Chair II” -- to infiltrate the McGovern campaign and report back. Using the pseudonym “Jason Rainier,” Stone made contributions to the New Hampshire McCloskey campaign in the name of supposed left-wing groups like Young Socialist Alliance. He then sent the receipts along with an anonymous letter to The Manchester Union-Leader. He also recommended that Creep hire a fellow student named Theodore Brill, who was subsequently paid $130 a week to spy on “radical groups.” Stone says the ideas for this “kid stuff” -- none of which was actually illegal at the time -- emanated from Charles Colson, and that if he had refused to do it, Creep would have fired him and gotten someone else. [NYTimes.com, <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/a-political-operatives-career-the-stone-zone/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">8/22/07</a>]</blockquote>Stone Was Heavily Fined For Ethical Violation. The New York Times reported in 2000 that Trump and his associates, including Stone, “have agreed to pay $250,000 in fines and to issue a public apology because they failed to disclose to the state lobbying commission that he had secretly financed newspaper advertisements opposing casino gambling in the Catskills.” Stone reportedly paid $100,000. [New York Times, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/06/nyregion/trump-and-others-accept-fines-for-ads-in-opposition-to-casinos.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/6/00</a>]“A Stone-Led Squad Of Pro-Bush Protestors Stormed The Miami-Dade County Election Board, Stopping The” Florida Recount. Benjy Sarlin wrote in The Daily Beast:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;">The capstone of Stone's career, at least in terms of results, was the “Brooks Brothers riot” of the 2000 election recount. This was when a Stone-led squad of pro-Bush protestors stormed the Miami-Dade County election board, stopping the recount and advancing then-Governor George W. Bush one step closer to the White House. Though he is quick to rebut GOP operatives who seek to minimize his role in the recount, Stone lately has been having second thoughts about what happened in Florida. [Daily Beast, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/11/20/a-gop-dirty-trickster-has-second-thoughts.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">11/20/08</a>]           </blockquote>Stone Established Anti-Hillary Clinton Group Called “C.U.N.T.” In 2008, Stone established the anti-Hillary Clinton 527 group Citizens United Not Timid. The group -- now defunct -- emphasized the acronym by bolding the first letter in each word. The group claimed to “educate the American public about what Hillary Clinton really is.” Stone said also he spent “hours trying to come up with words for B.I.T.C.H. and just couldn't do it.” [Media Matters, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2008/02/20/days-after-today-apology-for-fonda-comment-msnb/142621" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2/20/08</a>; Weekly Standard, <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/617oiaek.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">1/28/08</a>]  Stone Founded “C.U.N.T.” Because That's The Description He Heard Of Clinton From Males In Bars. The Weekly Standard wrote of Stone's group in 2008:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;">Even among fellow mercenaries, good help can be hard to find. A few nights prior, Stone had been interviewing a sinister Italian gentleman for the front man gig. It was a two-question interview. Stone kicked things off with, “Let me ask you, Angelo: I say 'Hillary Clinton.' Tell me the first word that comes to your mind, even if it's risqué.” "[Special flower]," Angelo immediately replied. To which Stone followed with, “Would you be willing to tell other people you think that?” Angelo assented: “Abso-f'in'-lutely.”With the interview concluded, Angelo excused himself to the restroom, at which time one of Stone's friends asked, “Do you know who that is?” “No,” Stone said, “Who is he? Nice guy.” His friend explained, “He's one of the soldiers of the Lucchese family, has a record as long as your arm. I don't think he's the guy you want.” Advantage: Noodles.Stone says Angelo's is a sentiment you regularly hear, particularly from males, if you casually focus-group Hillary Clinton in bars--where this and “all good ideas” are hatched. The operation's genesis occurred when Stone was standing around with friends at a bar, Clinton appeared on television, and someone said “What a [special flower].” Everyone immediately concurred. [Weekly Standard, <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/617oiaek.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-bottom: 0px;">1/28/08</a>]</blockquote>Stone Referenced “C.U.N.T.” Group In 2015. [Facebook, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/R.Stone.Zone/photos/a.145409832281070.32433.131310460357674/512947432193973/?type=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">8/16/15</a>]Stone Lobs Misogynistic Insults At Women On Twitter. The Sun-Sentinel wrote of Stone:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;">Stone on Twitter called [political opponent Judy] Stern's daughter a “self-important, nasty c--,'' Tweeted ”DIE B-TCH!'' to former New York Times editor Jill Abramson, whom he called a “snot-nosed, arrogant, biased liberal -- and all around b-tch'' on Twitter for not reviewing his JFK book, and in another publicly viewable Tweet called actress Sofia Vergara a ”self-centered b-tch.'' [The Sun-Sentinel, <a href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-08-16/news/fl-roger-stone-sheriff-israel-20140809_1_roger-stone-sheriff-scott-israel-unqualified-punk/2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-bottom: 0px;">8/16/14</a>]</blockquote>Stone: “Hillary Is A Pathological Liar And A Cold Bitch.” [Twitter.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerjstonejr/status/584899364725907456" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">4/5/15</a>]Stone: "<a href="https://twitter.com/ChelseaClinton" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">@ChelseaClinton</a> Is A Total Bitch ? Now There's A Surprise." [Twitter.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/601214188711731200" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">5/20/15</a>]Stone: “SHAME ! Bill And Hillary Clinton Pimp Their 'Daughter' Out To Media To Defend Their Rampant Corruption.” [Twitter.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/592007819982811137" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">4/25/15</a>]<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">Robert Morrow Wishes Death On Hillary Clinton, Posted Bizarre Sexual Writings About Clintons</h2>Morrow Hopes For Hillary Clinton's Death. Morrow has written that “The Taliban was created to deal with people like Hillary Clinton”; wondered if “all your sexual fantasies about Hillary Clinton involve 'snuff films?' Probably not good for most of you to answer that question”; and said “I hope Bill Clinton talks Hillary into running in 2016 ... and she loses and or both of them die from medical complications of the campaign trail begging folks to vote for Hillary. That would be nice.” Morrow told a Florida newspaper in 2008 that the Secret Service visited him about his Clinton writings but nothing came of it. [Media Matters, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294#death" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]Morrow Has Posted Bizarre Sexual Writings About Hillary Clinton. Morrow has posted bizarre sexual writings about Hillary Clinton, including referencing “my Hillary Clinton blow up doll,” “Clinton's vaginal odor,” when “maggots started coming out of her pussy,” and a “Hillary Clinton Excessive Masturbation Fantasy support group.” [Media Matters, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294#bizarre" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]Morrow On Chelsea Clinton: “Slut,” Incest, A Dog. Morrow relayed that someone told him “Chelsea was the slut” in college. Morrow has also compared her to a dog and wondered whether she would “have sex one day” with Bill Clinton. [Media Matters, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294#chelsea" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]Morrow Approached Chelsea Clinton And Asked Her: “Has Your Mother Ever Told You That You're The Daughter Of Webb Hubbell And Not Bill Clinton?” [Facebook.com, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Robert.Morrow.888/posts/899072623473784?pnref=story" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/9/15</a>] Morrow Has Posted Outlandish Conspiracies About A Variety Of Topics. Morrow has claimed George H. W. Bush “murdered JFK” and “is a homosexual pedophile”; wrote President “Obama smoked crack with and had a blowjob” with his “gay lover”; and claimed “Jeb Bush murdered Barry Seal. He was a 1980's CIA drug smuggler.” [Media Matters, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294#bizarre" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]Morrow Posted Slurs In Online Rants. Morrow has written against “pro-faggot JUDICIAL ACTIVISM” and used the slur “nigger” when complaining about political correctness. [Media Matters, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294#facebook" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]Morrow On Media Matters' Piece About Him: “Everything I Talk About Is True.” Morrow posted a link to a September 3 Media Matters post about him and wrote, “The greatest tweets and Facebook posts of Robert Morrow. Please share and comment!” When someone asked him for a response to Media Matters' criticism, Morrow wrote: “My response? Everything I talk about is true.” [Facebook, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Robert.Morrow.888/posts/883649081682805" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]Morrow To Media Matters President: “Go Fuck Yourself” For Covering For “Angry Bull Dyke Handler Hillary.” After Media Matters president Bradley Beychok criticized him on Twitter, Morrow responded: “go fuck yourself. You cover for a serial rapist and his angry bull dyke handler Hillary.” [Twitter.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/RobMorroLiberty/status/644917149144735745" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/18/15</a>] Stone Defends Morrow: “Morrow Is An Extraordinary Researcher.” Stone has defended his co-author when asked about his background. MSNBC's Alex Seitz-Wald reported:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;">Stone said he met Morrow while promoting his first book, which alleges that former President Lyndon Johnson killed former President John F. Kennedy. “Morrow is an extraordinary researcher,” Stone said.Stone added, “He's absolutely an eccentric character, to say the least, but when you double-check his research, it checks out.” [MSNBC.com, <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/latest-anti-clinton-book-promises-be-most-fantastic-yet" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">9/3/15</a>]</blockquote></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">skyhorse publ</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div aria-live="polite" data-a-expander-collapsed-height="300" class="a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-expander-partial-collapse-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-height: none; height: 300px;"><div aria-expanded="false" class="a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative; padding-bottom: 16px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Hillary Clinton is the war on women.” —Kathleen Willey, from the Foreword “There is no way that [Hillary] did not know what was going on, that women were being abused and accosted by her husband.” —Paula Jones “This book on Hillary - really tough.” —Donald Trump “Roger Stone's and Robert Morrow's new book, The Clintons’ War on Women is the ultimate Clinton exposé: A ‘no holds barred’ look at the numerous scandals and criminal behaviors of Hillary and Bill Clinton which have previously been either indelicately hidden, perfunctorily denied or spun into oblivion by them and their sycophantic apologists.” —Phillip F. Nelson, author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination and LBJ: From Mastermind to “The Colossus” “This is THE encyclopedic, comprehensive guide to all of the women that have talked about their horrible experiences with Bill Clinton who you can only describe as a serial abuser of women.” —Sean Hannity “This book is the definitive expose of Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. There is so much here I had forgotten and so much more I didn't know. I couldn't put it down.” —Judge Andrew Napolitano “This book should be called Hillary's War on Bill's Women.” —Larry Kudlow, CNBC Commentator “This true horror includes all the worst moments in the Clintons' war on women” —Ann Coulter “Hillary Clinton is finally facing the sniper fire she ‘imagined’ she caught in Bosnia as First Lady.” —The Daily Caller “Exhibit A in the case why Hillary cannot be allowed to be President” —The East Orlando Post “Roger Stone nails it again. A political insider for 30 years Stone lays bare the misdeeds of the Clintons and the Bushes in this incredible book.” —The Wellington Ledger</div>--This text refers to the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/151070678X/ref=dp_bookdescription?encoding=UTF8&n=283155" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Hardcover</a> edition.</div><div class="a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; position: absolute; bottom: 0px; width: 1000px; transition: opacity 0.4s ease-out 0s; opacity: 1;"><a data-action="a-expander-toggle" class="a-declarative" data-a-expander-toggle="{" allowlinkdefault="allowLinkDefault" true="true" expand_prompt="expand_prompt" read="Read" more="more" collapse_prompt="collapse_prompt" less="less" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i class="a-icon a-icon-extender-expand" https="https" images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com="images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com" images="images" g="G" auiclients="AUIClients" amazonuibasecss-sprite_1x-28bd59af93d9b1c745bb0aca4de58763b54df7cf.v2.png="AmazonUIBaseCSS-sprite_1x-28bd59af93d9b1c745bb0aca4de58763b54df7cf.V2.png" background-size="background-size" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" display="display" inline-block="inline-block" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" position="position" relative="relative" margin-right="margin-right" em="em" width="width" height="height" background-position="background-position" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: url("");">
</a></div></div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 4px; margin: 0.75em 0px 0.375em -15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.255; clear: left;">About the Author</h3><div aria-live="polite" data-a-expander-collapsed-height="300" class="a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-expander-partial-collapse-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-height: 300px;"><div aria-expanded="false" class="a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;">David Patrick (Plano, TX) is an 18 year veteran in telecommunications. His expertise includes voice, data, wireless, and next generation telecommunication services. He has led the development of many product marketing and development processes and planning for several different telecom organizations.</div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div><div class="item-summary" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 30px 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(204, 204, 204); clear: both;">The New York Times reported on the influence of The Clintons’ War on Women in Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s attacks on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, but failed to mention the extreme misogyny of the book’s discredited co-authors, Robert Morrow and Roger Stone.</div><div class="item-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255);">NY Times Highlights Trump’s Latest Attacks Against Clinton’s Marriage Without Providing Context About The Book That Sourced Them</h2>NY Times: Trump To “Put The Clintons’ Relationship At The Center” Of His Latest Line Of Attack. The New York Times reported that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “unleashed a slashing new attack on Hillary Clinton over Bill Clinton’s sexual indiscretions on Friday as he sought to put the Clintons’ relationship at the center of his political argument against her before their next debate.” The Times pointed out some Trump advisers, mainly Roger Stone, are suggesting Trump focus “on accusations that Mrs. Clinton tried to discredit women who said they had been harassed by Mr. Clinton,” and mentioned Stone wrote a book full of accusations against the Clintons called The Clintons’ War on Women. From the September 30 The New York Times report:<blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;">Donald J. Trump unleashed a slashing new attack on Hillary Clinton over Bill Clinton’s sexual indiscretions on Friday as he sought to put the Clintons’ relationship at the center of his political argument against her before their next debate.[...]Some of Mr. Trump’s advisers have tried to suggest focusing on accusations that Mrs. Clinton tried to discredit women who said they had been harassed by Mr. Clinton. Chief among those suggesting this approach is Roger Stone, the longest-serving Trump adviser, who wrote a book called “The Clintons’ War on Women,” laying out accusations from Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey, who have accused Mr. Clinton of sexual assault — accusations the Clintons or their lawyer David Kendall have denied. [The New York Times, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/us/politics/donald-trump-interview-bill-hillary-clinton.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article&r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/30/16</a>]</blockquote><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255);">NY Times Ignores Unhinged Misogynist Robert Morrow, Co-Author Of The Clintons’ War on WomenWho Has Wished Death On Hillary Clinton</h2>Morrow Has Hoped For Hillary Clinton’s Death. In his posts on social media, Robert Morrow, the co-author of The Clintons’ War on Women, has hoped for “angry bull dyke” Hillary Clinton’s death, saying “the Taliban was created to deal with people” and that “I hope” both Hillary and Bill Clinton “die.” Morrow has also reportedly received a visit from the Secret Service. [Facebook, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Robert.Morrow.888/posts/651704548210594" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">4/18/14</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Robert.Morrow.888/posts/462797333767984" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/16/13</a>; Tampa Bay Times, <a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/29/Worldandnation/Some_people_just_love.shtml" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/29/08</a>; Media Matters, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/3/15</a>]Morrow Has Written Bizarre Sexual Posts About Hillary Clinton. Morrow’s writings include bizarre sexual posts about the Democratic presidential nominee, once asking on Facebook whether anyone needed to borrow his “Hillary Clinton blow up doll” since he was “finished with it for tonight.” On May 23, 2015, he asked his Facebook followers “What is a greater threat to the USA: ISIS or Hillary Clinton’s vaginal odor?” Similarly, he said Fox’s Bill O’Reilly “should have to lick Hillary Clinton’s pussy” for being “a lying piece of shit” and “untrustworthy.” Morrow also said that Clinton has “maggots ... coming out of her pussy” and has posted a “Hillary Clinton masturbation update.” [Facebook, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Robert.Morrow.888/posts/825940297453684" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">4/24/15</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Robert.Morrow.888/posts/837413956306318" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/23/15</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Robert.Morrow.888/posts/799576583423389" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/2/15</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Robert.Morrow.888/posts/651252934922422" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">4/17/14</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Robert.Morrow.888/posts/582240931823623" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/13/13</a>; Media Matters, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/3/15</a>]Tampa Bay Times: Morrow "Pretty Much Devotes His Life To Hating The Clintons And Spreading Wild, Unsubstantiated Allegations About Them." From a 2008 profile:<blockquote style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;">"Chelsea is the seed of Web Hubbell and not Bill Clinton. Would I bet my life on it? No. I would bet my pickup truck," he declares between bites of salmon. "Hillary Clinton was sleeping with both of her law partners, Webb Hubbell and Vince Foster. And she's a lesbian, too."Morrow, a perpetually indignant, single 43-year-old, pretty much devotes his life to hating the Clintons and spreading wild, unsubstantiated allegations about them. There are untold numbers of Robert Morrows in America, people obsessed with Clinton hatred and Clinton conspiracy theories the way other Americans might be consumed with Star Trek, Beanie Babies or the Florida Gators.But soon it could be time to find another purpose in life besides worrying about a Clinton in the White House. If Clinton fares poorly in the must-win states of Texas and Ohio on Tuesday, Robert Morrow and others will be looking for a new hobby."I've got other aspects of my life when I'm not, you know, stopping Clinton pond scum," insists Morrow, who has no steady job but enjoys a family inheritance. "Um, I like to work out at the gym. I like to go hiking. I like to ride my bicycle."[...]Morrow started his anti-Clinton crusade about three years ago, when he decided he needed to devote himself to making sure Hillary Clinton never wins the White House. He can't pinpoint what set him on this path beyond his conviction that the Clintons are ruthless "sociopaths that need to be crushed and defeated."With no job except occasional day trading of stocks, Morrow spends anywhere from one to 10 hours a day researching Clinton dirt or e-mailing and phoning reporters across the country about his conclusions. [Tampa Bay Times, <a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/29/Worldandnation/Some_people_just_love.shtml" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/29/08</a>]</blockquote><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255);">The Times Also Did Not Provide Context About Dirty Trickster And Trump Ally Roger Stone</h2>Roger Stone Is One Of Trump's "Most Visible And Vocal Surrogates." Roger Stone previously worked as a top political aide to Trump's presidential campaign before exiting in August 2015. Stone says he and Trump are "on cordial terms. We talk ... Trump has been my friend for 35 years. He's still my friend." Since then, Stone has helped spread falsehoods and conspiracy theories to smear the Clintons, including that they are “plausibly responsible” for the deaths of roughly 40 people.. [Media Matters, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/05/09/comprehensive-guide-trump-ally-roger-stone-racist-sexist-conspiracy-theorist/210303" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/5/16</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/05/did-fox-news-just-hire-this-misogynistic-profes/199618" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">6/5/14</a>; Talking Points Memo, <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/roger-stone-donald-trump-tpm-interview?utm_content=buffere7f9d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/2/15</a>; Politico, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/sources-roger-stone-quit-wasnt-fired-by-donald-trump-in-campaign-shakeup-121177" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">8/8/15</a>]Stone Established Anti-Hillary Clinton Called "C.U.N.T." In 2008, Stone established the anti-Hillary Clinton 527 group Citizens United Not Timid. The group -- now defunct -- emphasized the acronym by bolding the first letter in each word. The group claimed to "educate the American public about what Hillary Clinton really is." Stone said he established the group because “that’s what you hear, particularly from males” and that he couldn’t come up with the acronym words for his preferred name option, “B.I.T.C.H.” [Associated Press, <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a7e5b4edae5840408c347356a9967420/ex-trump-aide-still-supports-businessmans-white-house-race" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">8/11/15</a>; Media Matters, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2008/02/20/days-after-today-apology-for-fonda-comment-msnb/142621" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/20/08</a>, Weekly Standard, <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/617oiaek.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/28/08</a>]<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255);">Donald Trump Has Promoted Stone And Morrow’s Book</h2>Trump Promoted Stone And Morrow's Book On Twitter. Trump wrote in an October 14 tweet that linked to the book's Amazon.com page: "The latest book on Hillary--Wow, a really tough one!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/151070678X%C2%A0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">http://www.amazon.com/dp/151070678X </a> @RogerJStoneJr." [Twitter.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654309447381188608" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; 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</div><div><div>Conspiracy Author With Bizarre Sexual Writings Elected GOP County Chair</div><div>
</div><div>New County Chair Robert Morrow Co-Authored Book Last Year With Trump Ally Roger Stone</div><div>Blog ››› March 2, 2016  ››› ERIC HANANOKI & OLIVER WILLIS</div><div>
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</div><div>Robert Morrow, who co-authored an anti-Clinton conspiracy book with Republican dirty trickster Roger Stone, has been elected chairman of the Republican Party in Travis County, Texas. Morrow is a fringe conspiracy theorist with a long trail of crude, racist, anti-LGBT, and misogynistic social media posts.</div><div>
</div><div>Travis County includes Austin, the capital of Texas. Morrow was elected with 54 percent of the vote but party officials have already issued condemnations of his election.</div><div>
</div><div>Vice chair Matt Mackowiak told the Texas Tribune, "We will explore every single option that exists, whether it be persuading him to resign, trying to force him to resign, constraining his power, removing his ability to spend money or resisting any attempt for him to access data or our social media account," adding, "I'm treating this as a coup and as a hostile takeover."</div><div>
</div><div>The Austin American-Statesman reported that the current chairman, James Dickey, who lost to Stone, "believes most people who voted for Morrow did not know who either candidate was."</div><div>
</div><div>Stone and Morrow co-authored The Clintons' War on Women, which claims to show "how Bill and Hillary Clinton systematically abused women and others -- sexually, physically, and psychologically -- in their scramble for power and wealth." The book is dedicated to -- and cites research from -- a Holocaust denier who blames a "Jewish plot" for the 9/11 attacks.</div><div>
</div><div>In a tweet after Morrow's victory, Stone wrote, "I have inserted my man @RobMorroLiberty as Travis Co GOP Chairman."</div><div>
</div><div>On his Twitter account, Morrow has pledged to "put my tongue up Barbara Bush's ass on national TV" if Clinton wins the presidency; called Clinton, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and CNN political commentator Ana Navarro a "cunt"; repeatedly wrote about "Hillary Clinton's pussy" and said she is "Cum Repellent Fullproof"; tweeted that "If Hillary AND Bill Clinton died of heart attacks, it would be a good day for the people of the world"; and wrote that Chelsea Clinton is a "whore."</div><div>
</div><div>Media Matters documented in September that Morrow has wished death on Hillary Clinton and been visited by the Secret Service; posted bizarre sexual writings about the former secretary of state; called Chelsea Clinton a "slut" and imagined how she would "have sex one day" with Bill Clinton; posted about "niggers" and "pro-faggot JUDICIAL ACTIVISM"; and claimed the Bush and Clinton families were involved in murders and drug-running.</div><div>
</div><div>Morrow also attacked Fox News host Megyn Kelly, writing on Facebook: "Megyn Kelly objectifying women with her titties about to pop out of her dress." After Stone was a no-show for a scheduled Fox News appearance, Morrow wondered if there are "little liberal pussies working at FOX."</div><div>
</div><div>Stone is a notorious "dirty trickster" who previously worked for Trump's presidential campaign last year and is now organizing against Clinton's campaign again.</div><div>
</div><div>CNN banned Stone as a guest after he wrote a series of crude tweets targeting CNN personalities. Stone's tweets about media figures include such descriptions as: "muff-diver," "elitist cnt," "professional negro," "arrogant know-it-all negro," "stupid negro," "fat negro," "Mandingo," and "quota hires" (among many others).</div><div>
</div><div>Here is a sampling of Morrow's tweets:}}}</div></div>=11 21
florida's 13th Congressional District received a major bombshell in May when Rep. Charlie Crist, a former Republican turned Democrat, announced that he is <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2021/05/04/charlie-crist-declares-another-run-for-florida-governor/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">running for governor</a> (a position he held in the past) and is hoping to unseat Gov. Ron DeSantis if he wins the Democratic nomination. Meanwhile, on the GOP side, far-right Republicans in that district are engaged in a wild congressional primary battle to determine who will run against the Democratic nominee, whoever that turns out to be. And an article by Daily Beast reporters Zachary Petrizzo and Will Sommer, published on November 17, describes some of the ways in which that Republican primary has <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/murder-plot-claims-a-dog-bite-and-roger-stone-inside-floridas-craziest-race?ref=scroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">become a total circus</a>.The far-right Republican congressional hopefuls in Florida's 13th Congressional District have included <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/578522-trump-endorsed-candidate-leading-gop-field-to-replace-crist-in-florida-poll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Anna Paulina Luna</a>, Amanda Makki and William Braddock, who dropped out of the race. Luna and Braddock both have had plenty of baggage. One of the controversies surrounding Luna involves her dog Gunner, who bit a nine-year-old child. Luna has alleged that Braddock wanted to <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/florida-congressional-candidate-accuses-rivals-of-murder-plot/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">hire a hit squad</a> to have her killed.Luna has been <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/09/14/trump-endorses-anna-paulina-luna-in-gop-primary-for-pinellas-house-seat/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">endorsed by former President Donald Trump</a>, but not everyone in MAGA World likes her. Petrizzo and Sommer report that Luna's foes include veteran GOP operative and Trump ally Roger Stone and his wingnut associate Lara Loomer, who describes Luna as "Anna Paulina Lunatic."No stranger to controversy herself, Loomer has been slamming Luna because of her dog's attack on a nine-year-old. Loomer wrote, "She needs to put her dog on a leash. They say people are a lot like their animals, and in this case, Anna and her dog are both CRAZY AND OUT OF CONTROL. Those btches both need to HEEL."Stone, meanwhile, dressed as Luna on Halloween, which was the self-described "dirty trickster's" way of mocking her.In a court filing, Luna said of ex-candidate Braddock, "I do not feel safe, and I am currently in fear for my life from Mr. Braddock.""Braddock eventually dropped out of the race," Petrizzo and Sommer explain, "but in her court filings about the alleged murder plot, Luna also mentioned primary rival Amanda Makki and potential candidate and Stone friend Matt Tito as being involved in some sort of alliance with Braddock to foil Luna. Both candidates were angered by being mentioned in the filing, telling Politico in June that they had no connection to Braddock."The Beast reporters continue, "Tito, who has not officially entered the race yet, was further incensed in July when, he said, Luna got him kicked out of a Tampa conference for Turning Point USA because of their rivalry. In Tito's telling, Luna allegedly asked TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk to have him removed."READ: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/lincoln-project/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">'Biden delivered': Devastating Lincoln Project ad mocks 'so-called builder' Trump on 'infrastructure week'</a>Tito, interviewed by the Beast, said of Luna, "She got me kicked out of a TPUSA event and lied to Charlie Kirk."If Tito enters the race, which he says is "likely," Stone may become his adviser. Tito told the Beast, "I mean, listen — this is a complete mess. Somehow, someway, Luna got Trump's endorsement."=<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/01/29/florida-mans-arrest-on-2016-election-charges-suggests-russia-probe-may-have-survived-bill-barr/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.salon.com/2021/01/29/florida-mans-arrest-on-2016-election-charges-suggests-russia-probe-may-have-survived-bill-barr/</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>Florida man's arrest on 2016 election charges suggests Russia probe may have survived Bill Barr</div><div>Indictment of a Roger Stone-connected operative may signal that Robert Mueller's spinoffs are still bearing fruit</div><div>By ROGER SOLLENBERGER</div><div>PUBLISHED JANUARY 29, 2021 5:59AM (EST)</div><div>
</div><div>Florida man Douglass Mackey, a notorious white nationalist and right-wing social media troll, was arrested this week on charges of conspiring with others to deprive citizens of their right to vote ahead of the 2016 election, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.</div><div>
</div><div>"According to the allegations in the complaint, the defendant exploited a social media platform to infringe one of the most basic and sacred rights guaranteed by the Constitution: the right to vote," Nicholas McQuaid, acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, said in a press release. "This complaint underscores the department's commitment to investigating and prosecuting those who would undermine citizens' voting rights."</div><div>
</div><div>It also suggests that the Russia investigation, at least in part, survived the tenure of former Attorney General Bill Barr.</div><div>
</div><div>According to the complaint, Mackey's Twitter account had nearly 60,000 followers, and in February 2016 the MIT Media Lab ranked him 107th in its list of the most influential personalities ahead of the election, higher than NBC News and Stephen Colbert. Prosecutors say that in the months before the election, Mackey collaborated with unnamed co-conspirators to encourage Hillary Clinton supporters to cast votes via text messages or social media — which are not viable or legal voting methods in any state.</div><div>
</div><div>The conspiracy charge against Mackey, who was arrested in West Palm Beach, could indicate that the Justice Department has been probing a broader network. Three of his co-conspirators were identified by HuffPost reporter Luke O'Brien, who wrote an in-depth 2018 profile of Mackey: white nationalist financier Jeff Giesea; conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, who has ties to onetime national security adviser turned QAnon hero Michael Flynn; and Jack Posobiec, a far-right provocateur with ties to neo-Nazi groups and longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone. The pro-Trump group, who called themselves "MAGA3X," fueled the Pizzagate social media campaign that smeared Hillary Clinton and other Democratic leaders in the run-up to the 2016 election.</div><div>
</div><div>Notably, both Stone and Flynn came under the focus of former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the weaponization of social media in 2016. Flynn had repeatedly shared content from the Russian-linked account @TEN_GOP, which shared disinformation to tens of thousands of followers under the auspices of the Tennessee Republican Party. </div><div>
</div><div>Stone, a misinformation mastermind, also imprinted on the Trump campaign the importance of social media. Just this summer, Facebook wiped more than 100 Facebook and Instagram accounts and pages that Stone and unnamed associates had used to push disinformation related to the 2016 election, as well as to Stone's criminal trial.</div><div>
</div><div>One arm of Stone's social media work in 2016 was an effort to suppress the Black vote, which is also specified in the charges against Mackey. Mueller had questioned and subpoenad Stone's associates who helped orchestrate his social media campaigns.</div><div>
</div><div>Former President Trump's efforts to block Mueller — or even fire him — have been well documented. In anticipation of possible acts of executive sabotage, the special counsel's office in the course of its work spun off a number of investigations to other divisions, primarily the Southern District of New York. As one of Barr's first acts in office, he appointed his own special prosecutor, Connecticut U.S. attorney John Durham, to investigate the origins of the Russia probe — and potentially pursue charges against FBI agents and Obama administration officials. Barr has long been suspected of spearheading a secret effort to suppress evidence and snuff out ancillary investigations, and after Mueller submitted his final report, congressional Democrats requested the attorney general's communications regarding the spinoff cases.</div><div>
</div><div>Considering all this, it seems possible, even likely, that the Mackey indictment indicates that some Russia-related inquiries have survived Barr's efforts to uproot them. Investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler proposed another, deeply ironic possibility: The charges could have stemmed from Trump's efforts to undermine the 2020 election and reverse his defeat.</div><div>
</div><div>About a week after the election, Barr, under pressure from Trump, took the unprecedented step of authorizing prosecutors to pursue election fraud cases ahead of the Electoral College vote. It's possible, Wheeler suggests, that if one of those prosecutors had ahold of evidence from prior investigations, Barr's authorization could have allowed that prosecutor to prioritize the Mackey case and bring an indictment — which would be a prodigious case of cosmic payback. </div><div>
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</div><div>ROGER SOLLENBERGER</div><div>Roger Sollenberger is a staff writer at Salon. Follow him on Twitter @SollenbergerRC.</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div>=<a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/20/bann-o20.html">https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/20/bann-o20.html</a>TRUMP COUP?!In addition, many of the documents requested by the committee have nothing to do with Bannon’s interactions with Trump. They concern rather Bannon’s interactions with forces that assisted, organized and participated in the coup.These include the “Women for America First” political group, which organized the fascist rally outside the White House on January 6; Republican strategist, attorney and frequent guest on Bannon’s podcast Boris Epshteyn; members of the group who attended the January 5 planning meeting at the Willard Hotel (including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Roger Stone and Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller); and other Trump officials, such as Kash Patel, former chief-of-staff to acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, and Ezra Cohen-Watnick, another Trump loyalist who was appointed to a high-level position in the Department of Defense following the firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper after Trump’s electoral defeat.<div>=</div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/roger-stone-aide/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/roger-stone-aide/</a></div><div>
</div><div>roger Stone associate Kristin Davis is behind a new column blaming Women for America First for being behind the organizing of the "Stop the Steal" rally and saying that Stone had nothing to do with it, reporter Nancy Levin discovered Sunday.</div>Writing in a conspiracy theory publication, Davis explained that all Stone did was stand outside his hotel with an entourage waiting for a car to pick them up."I booked Roger to speak at the Rally to Save America the night prior and was led to believe by Women for America First that he was supposed to speak the following afternoon on January 6th, at a rally they organized which featured President Donald J. Trump. After a completely peaceful rally on January 5th, which attracted thousands of brave American patriots, we woke up the next morning expecting to attend the rally at the Ellipse," the column read."However, despite Women for America First promoting Stone as a speaker and insisting that they were sending a transport for Mr. Stone and our team to the Willard Hotel, the escort never came," the piece continued. "As we were waiting, the staff at the Hotel Willard asked anyone congregating in the lobby to stay out of the cold to step outside in order to adhere to COVID-19 guidelines set forth by the Mayor of Washington, D.C. A simple walk outside, which lasted mere minutes, is the first part of the dishonest conspiracy theory by the mainstream media and Democrat (sic) elected officials that Mr. Stone was somehow organizing the insurrection, or had some sort of advance knowledge of what was going to happen later that day."Raw Story has never reported that Stone was part of the organizing of the event, but those members of the Oath Keepers militia who were working as the security for Stone<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/justice-indict-oath-keepers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"> are accused of being linked to the plotting of violence</a>.<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-individuals-affiliated-oath-keepers-indicted-federal-court-conspiracy-obstruct" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Justice Department filings showed Jessica Watkins</a> saying to allies that the task "sounds like a sweet gig," meaning the guarding of Stone."Looks like we might be security for Roger Stone, if we end up rolling with the Oath keepers(sic)," Watkins texted Donovan Ray Crowl on Jan. 1. Crowl texted back later that day saying, it "should be fun."Crowl was cited for believing that <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/oath-keeper/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">there would be a "literal war"</a> in the United States on Jan. 6.<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/19/oath-keepers-boss-quoted-trump-before-capitol-riot.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Crowl's lawyer said</a> in the court documents that his client wasn't doing anything other than security on Jan. 6, but other messages prosecutors got showed that the Oath Keepers were coordinating with "30-40" people during the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Watkins and Crowl were both indicted on charges of conspiracy, conspiracy to injure an officer and destruction of government property.Stone appears to be denying that he and the security had discussed anything outside of their work for him.Women for America First was behind the rally, according to permits requested from the Parks Service.See the screen capture of the excerpt from Nancy Levin:<div>
</div><div>=</div>A super PAC allied with infamous right-wing dirty trickster and convicted felon Roger Stone is threatening to torpedo Republicans' Senate majority if they don't help President Donald Trump steal the 2020 presidential election.
The Daily Beast reports that Stone-allied Committee for American Sovereignty is encouraging its supporters in Georgia to write Trump's name in place of voting for Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA) in January's senate run-off elections.
The goal of doing this, the group argues, is to somehow force Republicans to not recognize the results of the 2020 election and keep Trump in power.
"If we can do this, we have a real chance at getting these RINO senators to act on the illegitimate and corrupt election presided over by a Democrat party that is invested in the Communist takeover of Our Great Nation," the group explains on its website. "We will not stop fighting for you, the American Patriot, against the evils of Socialism and inferior Religions."
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich tells The Daily Beast that he's worried about GOP voters turning out in the Peach State after watching Trump narrowly lose the state to President-elect Joe Biden.
"The anger over the secretary of state's incompetence and the governor's failure to lead could mean that Republicans just stay home," he said. "I think there's a very big problem with getting Republicans to turn out."
FROM YOUR SITE ARTICLESGeorgia runoffs: Robert Reich breaks down how you can help flip ... ›Georgia senator blatantly breaks Senate rules while live on air with ... ›Fed-up GOP donors may withhold money from Georgia senate races ... ›RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEBIn Georgia, Pence Sidesteps Trump False Claims : NPR ›Georgia GOP feud could hurt party turnout for Senate runoffs - Los ... ›Both parties rev up campaigns for crucial Georgia Senate runoffs ›=not really tracking him in stop the steal tho ali akbar his creation<h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/georgia-senate-2649028790/" aria-label="Roger Stone-allied super PAC threatens to torpedo Senate GOP in Georgia if they don’t save Trump" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height">Stone-allied super PAC threatens to torpedo Senate GOP in Georgia if they don’t save Trump</a></h1><div class="social-author clearfix" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/brad-reed" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative;">Brad Reed</a> <a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/raw-story" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative;">Raw Story</a></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2649028790" style="margin-top: 10px; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; margin-bottom: 15px; display: -webkit-box; text-overflow: ellipsis; line-height: 23px; -webkit-line-clamp: 3; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description">A super PAC allied with infamous right-wing dirty trickster and <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/this-is-not-how-words-work-trump-after-ranting-that-roger-stone-will-be-exonerated/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">convicted felon Roger Stone</a> is threatening to torpedo Republicans' Senate majority if they don't help <a href="http://rawstory.com/2020/11/trump-vows-he-will-never-concede-in-11-pm-conspiracy-filled-rant/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">President Donald Trump steal the 2020 presidential election</a>.</div></div><div>=</div>=<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/roger-stone/roger-stone-antifa-and-black-lives-matter-thugs-are-going-be-clubbing-people-suburbs">https://www.mediamatters.org/roger-stone/roger-stone-antifa-and-black-lives-matter-thugs-are-going-be-clubbing-people-suburbs</a>
Roger Stone: Antifa and Black Lives Matter “thugs” are going to be “clubbing” people in the suburbs to suppress voting09/18/20 4:25 PM EDT
roger Stone continues to lay the groundwork for Trump to declare martial law09/18/20 1:26 PM EDT
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no lnx manyWarning of a left-wing coup, Trumpist media prep their audience for election unrestWRITTEN BY MATT GERTZPUBLISHED 09/18/20 10:25 AM EDTTrumpCitationMolly Butler / Media MattersNearly 5 million people were watching on Tuesday night as a Fox News host who claims that white supremacy is a hoax and a former speechwriter for President Donald Trump who was fired for speaking at a white nationalist conference spun out a wild-eyed conspiracy theory portraying mail-in voting as a sinister Democratic cabal’s coup attempt. Tucker Carlson opened the segment by telling his viewers that Democrats were promoting mail-in voting not as a way to boost safe turnout during a pandemic, but because “they want the uncertainty over the outcome of the election, so they can manipulate the results.” His guest, Revolver News’ Darren Beattie, then explained that “a very specific type of coup called the color revolution” is “unfolding before our eyes.” A color revolution, Beattie explained, is “a regime change model favored by many in our national security apparatus, particularly against Eastern European countries to overthrow target regimes that they don't like.” (They were actually peaceful protests that toppled despots in places previously dominated by the Soviet Union.) And now, he claimed, that model is being applied to the United States, with “color revolution professionals” deliberately generating election fraud in order “to use lawfare in order to overturn the 2020 election.”Right-wing media figures generally push a baseline level of apocalyptic rhetoric about the purported predations of progressives. But Trumpist media have reached a dangerous fever pitch over the last week or so, even by that standard. With polls showing Trump trailing former Vice President Joe Biden following the party conventions and the election only weeks away, commentators like Carlson are preparing their audiences to treat a Trump defeat as a left-wing coup -- and encouraging the president toward an authoritarian response.Their deranged statements are fed by -- and fuel -- the president’s own unhinged remarks. Trump has portrayed himself as “saving the world from a radical left philosophy that will destroy this country.” He describes his political opposition as supporters of “angry mobs,” “far-left fascism,” and “left-wing cultural revolution” so dangerous that he has even endorsed extrajudicial executions. And all the while, he’s been openly claiming that he could not possibly lose a fairly held election, and that any defeat would be the result of a Democratic election fraud conspiracy.Carlson’s show is the most prominent vehicle fearmongering about a Democratic coup, but it is not the only one. A new special from The Blaze TV’s Glenn Beck is titled “CIVIL WAR: The Way America Could End in 2020,” and it details how “the Left is grooming us for an Eastern European-style color revolution this election.” His complex plot sprawls over three chalkboards and features mail-in voting as a vector for “something dangerous happening in November if we don’t act now.” (Beck praised Carlson during the program for the way he has been “putting the puzzle pieces together.”) The Trumpist publication The Federalist has offered up a similar “coup” theory. The right-wing “coup” talk is the natural result of their demagoguery and dehumanization of the political opposition. Months ago, Trumpist media figures began warning that civilization itself was on the ballot in the fall, with Trump standing as the only thing preventing the left from making America “unrecognizable.” That type of rhetoric has only escalated, producing ever-more-inflammatory claims about what Trump’s defeat might mean to the safety and security of his supporters.Over the last week or so alone:Carlson described Black Lives Matter as “poison” that “we have to fight” because “if we’re going to survive as a country, we must defeat this.”Wall Street Journal columnist Bill McGurn explained that he bought a gun in case “100 or 200 people bent on violence” show up in his suburb. Fox’s Laura Ingraham and the pro-Trump podcaster Joe Rogan baselessly attributed the massive western wildfires to left-wing arsonists, blasting false rumors circulating on social media to millions of viewers and listeners. Fox contributor Dan Bongino claimed that “we're watching the greatest nation in the history of sentient beings collapse in front of our face.”Fox host Sean Hannity said that U.S. cities have become “war zones” and that there is a “war on police now.”And Charlie Kirk, a frequent Fox guest and head of the Trumpist youth group Turning Point USA, warned on his podcast that if Trump loses, leftists seeking “bloodthirsty revenge” will “come for us all. They will come for your children.”Some are taking their hatred of the left to lawless, authoritarian conclusions. Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of the president, said during an appearance earlier this month on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars network that if Trump were to lose (illegitimately as a result of voter fraud, of course), he should try to retain power by having federal agents seize purportedly tainted ballots, using martial law or the Insurrection Act to carry out widespread arrests, and nationalizing state police forces.Fox’s Mark Levin, meanwhile, has also urged Trump to consider invoking the Insurrection Act -- but he argued that it would be needed if he wins. “He will have to use it to put down the enemy,” Levin explained on his radio show last week. “The enemy is antifa, the enemy is Black Lives Matter, and the enemy is anybody that is going to use rioting, arson, looting, violence against our country to try to overthrow our country,” he added. “Those are traitors. That's treasonous.”Extremist violent rhetoric is nothing new for right-wing media. Glenn Beck made it a staple of Fox News during President Barack Obama’s first term. Before the midterm elections, Fox warned its audience members that they needed to vote for Republicans to protect themselves from being killed by Democratic mobs. But this sort of demagoguery can come with a heavy price. Beck’s rhetoric inspired an attempted domestic terror attack against one of his regular targets that ended with a firefight with law enforcement. And in the days before the 2018 midterm elections, a Trump superfan sent bombs to leftist leaders whom Fox commentators had attacked.There’s still six weeks to go before the election. How will this spate of violent rhetoric end?
IN THIS ARTICLEVoter Fraud and SuppressionVoter SuppressionRelatedFox News fuels Trump’s dangerous Portland “law and order” strategy07/21/20 3:52 PM EDTDesperate Trumpists say civilization is on the ballot as Biden lead grows06/24/20 11:06 AM EDTHow Tucker Carlson became the Fox host Trump listens to the most07/08/20 
------mma 920<div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">roger Stone is making baseless accusations of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election and is urging Donald Trump to consider several draconian measures to stay in power, including having federal authorities seize ballots in Nevada, having FBI agents and Republican state officials “physically” block voting under the pretext of preventing voter fraud, using martial law or the Insurrection Act to carry out widespread arrests, and nationalizing state police forces.Stone, a longtime confidant of the president, made the comments during a September 10 appearance on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars network. On July 10, Trump <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/roger-stone/trump-commutes-roger-stones-sentence-following-concerted-campaign-fox-news-and-infowars" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">commuted</a> a 40-month prison sentence that was handed down to Stone after he was convicted of lying to Congress and tampering with witnesses as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into 2016 election interference. Namely, Stone <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/prosecutor-says-roger-stone-lied-under-oath-because-truth-looked-n1077641" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">lied to Congress</a> about his contacts with WikiLeaks, which released hacked emails with the aim of boosting Trump’s prospects. In the weeks leading up to the commutation, Stone <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/roger-stone/roger-stone-trump-pardon-me-so-i-can-be-more-effective-2020-campaigner-you" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">made a number of media appearances</a> where he asked Trump to grant him clemency and said that in exchange, he could be a more effective campaigner for the president’s 2020 reelection efforts. Stone’s efforts are now underway, and his aim appears to be to spread conspiracy theories about voter fraud and call for actions that would likely intimidate potential Joe Biden voters. During his September 10 appearance on The Alex Jones Show, Stone declared that the only legitimate outcome to the 2020 election would be a Trump victory. He made this assertion on the basis of his <a href="https://www.ktnv.com/news/hundreds-protest-nevada-mail-in-ballot-law-amid-unfounded-voter-fraud-claims" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">entirely unfounded</a> claim that early voting has been marred by widespread voter fraud. Stone argued that “the ballots in Nevada on election night should be seized by federal marshalls and taken from the state” because “they are completely corrupted” and falsely said that “we can prove voter fraud in the absentees right now.” He specifically called for Trump to have absentee ballots seized in Clark County, Nevada, an area that <a href="https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/nevada/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">leans</a> Democratic. Stone went on to claim that “the votes from Nevada should not be counted; they are already flooded with illegals” and baselessly suggested that former Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) should be arrested and that Trump should consider nationalizing Nevada’s state police force.Beyond Nevada, Stone recommended that Trump consider several actions to retain his power. Stone recommended that Trump appoint former Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA) as a special counsel “with the specific task of forming an Election Day operation using the FBI, federal marshals, and Republican state officials across the country to be prepared to file legal objections and if necessary to physically stand in the way of criminal activity.”Stone also urged Trump to consider declaring “martial law” or invoking <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/insurrection-act.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">the Insurrection Act</a> and then using his powers to arrest Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, “the Clintons” and “anybody else who can be proven to be involved in illegal activity."nice pix jnz set]stone is no stranger to interfering in elections. He was reportedly <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/15/its-insanity-how-brooks-brothers-riot-killed-recount-miami/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">an organizer</a> of the so-called “Brooks Brothers riot” during the 2000 presidential election that led to vote counting being suspended in Miami-Dade County, Florida.</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><div>=</div><div>
</div><div>stone lies about lying?  will take credit for tricks/crimes he did not do to bolster rep? spread disinfo to comfuse cops/press?</div><div>
</div><div>wapo: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-trump-russia-report/2020/08/18/62a7573e-e093-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-trump-russia-report/2020/08/18/62a7573e-e093-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html</a></div><div>
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</div><div>Trump’s 2016 campaign chair was a ‘grave counterintelligence threat,’ had repeated contact with Russian intelligence, Senate panel finds</div><div>
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</div><div>By</div><div>Karoun Demirjian and </div><div>Ellen Nakashima</div><div>August 18, 2020</div><div>
</div><div>President Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman posed a “grave counterintelligence threat” due to his interaction with people close to the Kremlin, according to a bipartisan Senate report released Tuesday that found extensive contacts between key campaign advisers and officials affiliated with Moscow’s government and intelligence services.</div><div>
</div><div>In its report, the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee states that Trump’s then-campaign chair Paul Manafort worked with a Russian intelligence officer “on narratives that sought to undermine evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election,” including the idea that purported Ukrainian election interference was of greater concern.</div><div>
</div><div>It found that a Russian attorney who met with Manafort, along with the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and his son-in-law Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in 2016, had “significant connections” to the Kremlin. The information she offered them was also “part of a broader influence operation targeting the United States that was coordinated, at least in part with elements of the Russian government,” the report stated.</div><div>
</div><div>But the panel also concluded that the FBI’s handling of Russian threats to the election was “flawed” and that the bureau gave “unjustified credence” to allegations about Trump’s Russia ties made in a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, “based on an incomplete understanding of Steele’s past reporting record.”</div><div>
</div><div>Document: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election]</div><div>
</div><div>The Senate Intelligence Committee’s three-and-a-half year investigation stands as Congress’s only bipartisan examination of Russian interference in the 2016 election. The panel, significantly, agreed that the FBI overestimated Steel’s reliability and that Manafort and other aides exposed the campaign to undue Russian influence. But its leaders were noticeably divided along party lines in how they interpreted the report’s significance, and several committee members — including its acting chairman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — endorsed dissenting conclusions about Trump’s own culpability.</div><div>
</div><div>The partisan divisions are a sign that the panel’s tome likely will not put to rest the political wrangling over how seriously to treat foreign interference in U.S. democracy as the country heads into its most divisive election in modern history.</div><div>
</div><div>“After more than three years of investigation by this Committee, we can now say with no doubt, there was no collusion,” a group of six panel Republicans, including Rubio, wrote in a statement instead accusing the Democratic Party of coordinating with foreign actors to produce Steele’s dossier.</div><div>
</div><div>“In 2016, the Democratic Party, using a series of arm’s length transactions, hired a foreign citizen to seek out dirt on a political opponent, provided by foreign sources,” the Republicans wrote, attacking the FBI for “sloppy work and poor judgment.”</div><div>
</div><div>Five Democrat senators — including Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), the party’s 2020 vice-presidential nominee — asserted the report “unambiguously shows that members of the Trump Campaign cooperated with Russian efforts to get Trump elected.” Referring specifically to their findings on Manafort, the Democrats wrote, “This is what collusion looks like.”</div><div>
</div><div>The intelligence committee’s vice chairman, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), who did not sign onto the Democrats’ dissenting views, noted “a breathtaking level of contacts between Trump officials and Russian government operatives that is a very real counterintelligence threat to our elections,” and he encouraged “all Americans to carefully review the documented evidence of the unprecedented and massive intervention campaign waged on behalf of then-candidate Donald Trump by Russians and their operatives and to reach their own independent conclusions.”</div><div>
</div><div>The committee’s past chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who oversaw the bulk of the investigation and also steered clear of the GOP’s dissent, struck a position in the middle.</div><div>
</div><div>“One of the Committee’s most important — and overlooked — findings is that much of Russia’s activities weren’t related to producing a specific electoral outcome, but attempted to undermine our faith in the democratic process itself,” he said in a statement. “Their aim is to sow chaos, discord, and distrust. Their efforts are not limited to elections. The threat is ongoing.”</div><div>
</div><div>Senate panel told Justice Dept. of suspicions over Trump family members’ Russia testimony</div><div>
</div><div>Burr and Warner launched the committee’s probe before Trump’s inauguration in January 2017 and sustained the bipartisan investigation over the following three and a half years, even as other Congressional investigations into the same matter faltered along partisan lines. Since the Senate Intelligence Committee began its probe, former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III also released a 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election — and Trump was impeached and acquitted after Democrats accused him of coercing Ukrainian leaders to interfere in the 2020 election.</div><div>
</div><div>Though the committee’s probe covers much of the same turf as Mueller’s investigation, it was different in nature. Mueller was running a criminal probe; the Senate committee was conducting an intelligence investigation — a distinction that helps to explain some of nuanced differences between their conclusions.</div><div>
</div><div>The Senate panel’s probe, which was mostly driven by the committee’s bipartisan staff, included more than 200 witnesses and considered evidence relating to Russian disinformation, Trump’s personal, business and campaign contacts with Russians and the transition period following the 2016 election.</div><div>
</div><div>At one point, the document all but concludes that Trump aides were duped and manipulated by Russian interests they were too callow to understand.</div><div>
</div><div>“Russian officials, intelligence services, and others” acting in concert with the Kremlin “were capable of exploiting the transition team’s shortcomings,” the report concluded. “Based on the available information, it is possible — and even likely — that they did so.”</div><div>
</div><div>The report also presents a damning portrait of the Trump campaign’s hasty move in March 2016 to assemble a foreign policy team, asserting that it had recruited inexperienced people without thoroughly vetting them and thus potentially exposed itself to Russian influence.</div><div>
</div><div>“Ultimately,” the committee wrote, “the foreign policy team exposed the Trump Campaign to significant counterintelligence vulnerabilities.”</div><div>
</div><div>The committee pointed to Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who attempted to secure a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin through “highly suspicious” contacts with people close to the Russian government. Ultimately, investigators concluded, Papadopoulos “was not a witting co-optee of the Russian the Russian intelligence services. The panel also found that while Russia seemed to show an interest in campaign adviser Carter Page, investigators “found no indication that Page had useful Campaign information for the Russian intelligence services to extract, nor meaningful influence for them to exploit.”</div><div>
</div><div>The committee did find however that Putin personally directed the 2016 hack-and-leak campaign targeting the Democratic Party, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Clinton campaign. The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks “actively sought and played a key role in the Russian campaign and very likely knew it was assisting a Russian intelligence influence effort,” the report stated, surmising that a Russian military spy agency, known as the GRU, transferred hacked emails to WikiLeaks likely because it offered a more effective platform for publicity than the GRU’s own methods.</div><div>
</div><div>Yet investigators could not “reliably determine the extent of authentic, nonpublic knowledge” Trump’s friend Roger Stone had about WikiLeaks’s coming releases and shared with the campaign.</div><div>
</div><div>The panel noted that its investigation was hampered by several witnesses’ refusing interviews and to produce documents, citing Fifth Amendment rights that protect against self incrimination. These included Stone, Manafort and Rick Gates, the campaign’s deputy chair at that time. The panel’s request to interview Julian Assange was rebuffed.</div><div>
</div><div>The committee also outright accused Blackwater founder and Trump supporter Erik Prince of stonewalling its investigation, saying that it was “hampered by a lack of cooperation” and that his account of a controversial 2017 meeting in the Seychelles alongside a Russian official was “brief and deceptive.”</div><div>
</div><div>The committee previously released other volumes detailing aspects of its inquiry. Those reports focused on U.S. election security, Russia’s use of social media in disinformation campaigns, the Obama administration’s response to the perceived threat in 2016 and the intelligence community’s joint assessment that Russia had interfered in an attempt to tip the scales in Trump’s favor.</div><div>
</div><div>Yet the panel’s effort to maintain a bipartisan approach has not saved it from partisan scrutiny. Last year, the panel came under fire from Senate Republicans after issuing a subpoena for Donald Trump Jr. to come in for a second round of testimony.</div><div>
</div><div>After his testimony, Trump Jr. was one of several witnesses that the panel referred to the Justice Department for closer scrutiny over discrepancies between their testimony and that of Gates, the ex-deputy campaign chair who was a key witness in Mueller’s probe.</div><div>
</div><div>Earlier this year, Burr stepped aside as panel chairman after coming under scrutiny over stocks he sold in industries hit badly by the coronavirus pandemic. Rubio has been serving as acting chairman in his place.</div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">links:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teaser-content"><section><div>President

Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman posed a “grave counterintelligence

threat” due to his interaction with people close to the Kremlin,

according to a bipartisan Senate report released Tuesday that found

extensive contacts between key campaign advisers and officials

affiliated with Moscow’s government and intelligence services.</div><div><div>In

its report, the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee states

that Trump’s then-campaign chair Paul Manafort worked with a Russian

intelligence officer “on narratives that sought to undermine evidence

that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election,” including the idea

that purported Ukrainian election interference was of greater concern.</div></div></section></div><div class="remainder-content"><section><div>It

found that a Russian attorney who met with Manafort, along with the

president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and his son-in-law Jared Kushner at

Trump Tower in 2016, had “significant connections” to the Kremlin. The

information she offered them was also “part of a broader influence

operation targeting the United States that was coordinated, at least in

part with elements of the Russian government,” the report stated.</div><div><div class="cb bg-offwhite mt-xxs pt-md pb-md mb-lg ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns hide-for-print dn db-ns relative" data-qa="article-body-ad" style="min-height:250px"><div class="relative z-1"><div class=""><wp-ad class="hide-for-print hide-for-print" id="slug_inline_bb" data-slot="/701/wpni.national-security" style="margin: auto; display: block;" aria-hidden="true" data-renderbehavior="lazy" data-refresh="true" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb="inline_bb" ctr="ctr" zeus_c_inline_bb="zeus_c_inline_bb" wp_ad_refresh="wp_ad_refresh" wp_refresh="wp_refresh" inline_bb_0="inline_bb_0" pwt="pwt" inline_bb_m_0="inline_bb_m_0" /></div></div></div></div><div><div>But

the panel also concluded that the FBI’s handling of Russian threats to

the election was “flawed” and that the bureau gave “unjustified

credence” to allegations about Trump’s Russia ties made in a dossier

compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, “based on an

incomplete understanding of Steele’s past reporting record.”</div><div><a data-qa="interstitial-link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-senate-intelligence-committee-s-report-on-russian-interference-in-the-2016-election/ca706d82-5df2-4af0-81a5-72f792b9f5f4/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_9">Document: Read the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election</a></div><div>The

Senate Intelligence Committee’s three-and-a-half year investigation

stands as Congress’s only bipartisan examination of Russian interference

in the 2016 election. The panel, significantly, agreed that the FBI

overestimated Steel’s reliability and that Manafort and other aides

exposed the campaign to undue Russian influence. But its leaders were

noticeably divided along party lines in how they interpreted the

report’s significance, and several committee members — including its

acting chairman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — endorsed dissenting

conclusions about Trump’s own culpability.</div><div>The

partisan divisions are a sign that the panel’s tome likely will not put

to rest the political wrangling over how seriously to treat foreign

interference in U.S. democracy as the country heads into its most

divisive election in modern history.</div><div><div class="cb bg-offwhite mt-xxs pt-md pb-md mb-lg ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns hide-for-print dn db-ns relative" data-qa="article-body-ad" style="min-height:250px"><div class="absolute z-0" aria-hidden="true" style="left:50%;top:50%">“After

more than three years of investigation by this Committee, we can now

say with no doubt, there was no collusion,” a group of six panel

Republicans, including Rubio, wrote in a statement instead accusing the

Democratic Party of coordinating with foreign actors to produce Steele’s

dossier.</div></div></div><div>“In

2016, the Democratic Party, using a series of arm’s length

transactions, hired a foreign citizen to seek out dirt on a political

opponent, provided by foreign sources,” the Republicans wrote, attacking

the FBI for “sloppy work and poor judgment.”</div><div>Five

Democrat senators — including Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), the party’s

2020 vice-presidential nominee — asserted the report “unambiguously

shows that members of the Trump Campaign cooperated with Russian efforts

to get Trump elected.” Referring specifically to their findings on

Manafort, the Democrats wrote, “This is what collusion looks like.”</div></div></section></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>  intelligence committee’s vice chairman, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), who

did not sign onto the Democrats’ dissenting views, noted “a

breathtaking level of contacts between Trump officials and Russian

government operatives that is a very real counterintelligence threat to

our elections,” and he encouraged “all Americans to carefully review the

documented evidence of the unprecedented and massive intervention

campaign waged on behalf of then-candidate Donald Trump by Russians and

their operatives and to reach their own independent conclusions.”</div><div><div class="cb bg-offwhite mt-xxs pt-md pb-md mb-lg ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns hide-for-print dn db-ns relative" data-qa="article-body-ad" style="min-height:250px"><div class="absolute z-0" aria-hidden="true" style="left:50%;top:50%">The

committee’s past chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who oversaw the

bulk of the investigation and also steered clear of the GOP’s dissent,

struck a position in the middle.</div></div></div><div>“One

of the Committee’s most important — and overlooked — findings is that

much of Russia’s activities weren’t related to producing a specific

electoral outcome, but attempted to undermine our faith in the

democratic process itself,” he said in a statement. “Their aim is to sow

chaos, discord, and distrust. Their efforts are not limited to

elections. The threat is ongoing.”</div><div><a data-qa="interstitial-link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-committee-donald-trump-jr-jared-kushner-stephen-bannon-erik-prince/2020/08/15/a7905a84-def5-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_23">Senate panel told Justice Dept. of suspicions over Trump family members’ Russia testimony</a></div><div>Burr

and Warner launched the committee’s probe before Trump’s inauguration

in January 2017 and sustained the bipartisan investigation over the

following three and a half years, even as other Congressional

investigations into the same matter faltered along partisan lines. Since

the Senate Intelligence Committee began its probe, former special

counsel Robert S. Mueller III also released a 448-page report on Russian

interference in the 2016 election — and Trump was impeached and

acquitted after Democrats accused him of coercing Ukrainian leaders to

interfere in the 2020 election.</div><div><div class="cb bg-offwhite mt-xxs pt-md pb-md mb-lg ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns hide-for-print dn db-ns relative" data-qa="article-body-ad" style="min-height:250px"><div class="relative z-1"><div class=""><wp-ad class="hide-for-print hide-for-print" id="slug_inline_bb_4" data-slot="/701/wpni.national-security" style="margin: auto; display: block;" aria-hidden="true" data-renderbehavior="lazy" data-refresh="true" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb_4="inline_bb_4" ctr="ctr" zeus_c_inline_bb_4="zeus_c_inline_bb_4" wp_ad_refresh="wp_ad_refresh" wp_refresh="wp_refresh" inline_bb_4_0="inline_bb_4_0" pwt="pwt" inline_bb_4_m_0="inline_bb_4_m_0" /></div></div></div></div><div><div>Though

the committee’s probe covers much of the same turf as Mueller’s

investigation, it was different in nature. Mueller was running a

criminal probe; the Senate committee was conducting an intelligence

investigation — a distinction that helps to explain some of nuanced

differences between their conclusions.</div><div>The

Senate panel’s probe, which was mostly driven by the committee’s

bipartisan staff, included more than 200 witnesses and considered

evidence relating to Russian disinformation, Trump’s personal, business

and campaign contacts with Russians and the transition period following

the 2016 election.</div><div>At

one point, the document all but concludes that Trump aides were duped

and manipulated by Russian interests they were too callow to understand.</div><div><div>“Russian

officials, intelligence services, and others” acting in concert with

the Kremlin “were capable of exploiting the transition team’s

shortcomings,” the report concluded. “Based on the available

information, it is possible — and even likely — that they did so.”</div><div><div class="cb bg-offwhite mt-xxs pt-md pb-md mb-lg ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns hide-for-print dn db-ns relative" data-qa="article-body-ad" style="min-height:250px"><div class="relative z-1"><div class=""><wp-ad class="hide-for-print hide-for-print" id="slug_inline_bb_5" data-slot="/701/wpni.national-security" style="margin: auto; display: block;" aria-hidden="true" data-renderbehavior="lazy" data-refresh="true" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb_5="inline_bb_5" ctr="ctr" zeus_c_inline_bb_5="zeus_c_inline_bb_5" wp_ad_refresh="wp_ad_refresh" wp_refresh="wp_refresh" inline_bb_5_0="inline_bb_5_0" pwt="pwt" inline_bb_5_m_0="inline_bb_5_m_0" /></div></div></div></div><div>The

report also presents a damning portrait of the Trump campaign’s hasty

move in March 2016 to assemble a foreign policy team, asserting that it

had recruited inexperienced people without thoroughly vetting them and

thus potentially exposed itself to Russian influence.</div><div>“Ultimately,”

the committee wrote, “the foreign policy team exposed the Trump

Campaign to significant counterintelligence vulnerabilities.”</div><div><figure class="center mb-md ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print"><div style="filter: blur(0px); transition: filter 0.1s ease 0s;" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" width="600" height="399">
</div></figure></div><div>The

committee pointed to Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who

attempted to secure a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Russian

President Vladimir Putin through “highly suspicious” contacts with

people close to the Russian government. Ultimately, investigators

concluded, Papadopoulos “was not a witting co-optee of the Russian the

Russian intelligence services. The panel also found that while Russia

seemed to show an interest in campaign adviser Carter Page,

investigators “found no indication that Page had useful Campaign

information for the Russian intelligence services to extract, nor

meaningful influence for them to exploit.”</div><div><div class="cb bg-offwhite mt-xxs pt-md pb-md mb-lg ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns hide-for-print dn db-ns relative" data-qa="article-body-ad" style="min-height:250px"><div class="relative z-1"><div class=""><wp-ad class="hide-for-print hide-for-print" id="slug_inline_bb_6" data-slot="/701/wpni.national-security" style="margin: auto; display: block;" aria-hidden="true" data-renderbehavior="lazy" data-refresh="true" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb_6="inline_bb_6" ctr="ctr" zeus_c_inline_bb_6="zeus_c_inline_bb_6" wp_ad_refresh="wp_ad_refresh" wp_refresh="wp_refresh" inline_bb_6_0="inline_bb_6_0" pwt="pwt" inline_bb_6_m_0="inline_bb_6_m_0" /></div></div></div></div><div><div>The

committee did find however that Putin personally directed the 2016

hack-and-leak campaign targeting the Democratic Party, the Democratic

Congressional Campaign Committee and the Clinton campaign. The

anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks “actively sought and played a key role in

the Russian campaign and very likely knew it was assisting a Russian

intelligence influence effort,” the report stated, surmising that a

Russian military spy agency, known as the GRU, transferred hacked emails

to WikiLeaks likely because it offered a more effective platform for

publicity than the GRU’s own methods.</div><div>Yet

investigators could not “reliably determine the extent of authentic,

nonpublic knowledge” Trump’s friend Roger Stone had about WikiLeaks’s

coming releases and shared with the campaign.</div><div>The

panel noted that its investigation was hampered by several witnesses’

refusing interviews and to produce documents, citing Fifth Amendment

rights that protect against self incrimination. These included Stone,

Manafort and Rick Gates, the campaign’s deputy chair at that time. The

panel’s request to interview Julian Assange was rebuffed.</div><div><div class="cb bg-offwhite mt-xxs pt-md pb-md mb-lg ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns hide-for-print dn db-ns relative" data-qa="article-body-ad" style="min-height:250px"><div class="relative z-1"><div class=""><wp-ad class="hide-for-print hide-for-print" id="slug_inline_bb_7" data-slot="/701/wpni.national-security" style="margin: auto; display: block;" aria-hidden="true" data-renderbehavior="lazy" data-refresh="true" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb_7="inline_bb_7" ctr="ctr" zeus_c_inline_bb_7="zeus_c_inline_bb_7" wp_ad_refresh="wp_ad_refresh" wp_refresh="wp_refresh" inline_bb_7_0="inline_bb_7_0" pwt="pwt" inline_bb_7_m_0="inline_bb_7_m_0" /></div></div></div></div><div><div>The

committee also outright accused Blackwater founder and Trump supporter

Erik Prince of stonewalling its investigation, saying that it was

“hampered by a lack of cooperation” and that his account of a

controversial 2017 meeting in the Seychelles alongside a Russian

official was “brief and deceptive.”</div><div>The

committee previously released other volumes detailing aspects of its

inquiry. Those reports focused on U.S. election security, Russia’s use

of social media in disinformation campaigns, the Obama administration’s

response to the perceived threat in 2016 and the intelligence

community’s joint assessment that Russia had interfered in an attempt to

tip the scales in Trump’s favor.</div><div>Yet

the panel’s effort to maintain a bipartisan approach has not saved it

from partisan scrutiny. Last year, the panel came under fire from Senate

Republicans after issuing a subpoena for Donald Trump Jr. to come in

for a second round of testimony.</div><div><div class="cb bg-offwhite mt-xxs pt-md pb-md mb-lg ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns hide-for-print dn db-ns relative" data-qa="article-body-ad" style="min-height:250px"><div class="relative z-1"><div class=""><wp-ad class="hide-for-print hide-for-print" id="slug_inline_bb_8" data-slot="/701/wpni.national-security" style="margin: auto; display: block;" aria-hidden="true" data-renderbehavior="lazy" data-refresh="true" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb_8="inline_bb_8" ctr="ctr" zeus_c_inline_bb_8="zeus_c_inline_bb_8" wp_ad_refresh="wp_ad_refresh" wp_refresh="wp_refresh" inline_bb_8_0="inline_bb_8_0" pwt="pwt" inline_bb_8_m_0="inline_bb_8_m_0" /></div></div></div></div><div><div>After his testimony, Trump Jr. was one of several witnesses that the panel <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-committee-donald-trump-jr-jared-kushner-stephen-bannon-erik-prince/2020/08/15/a7905a84-def5-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_49" title="www.washingtonpost.com">referred to the Justice Department for closer scrutiny</a>

over discrepancies between their testimony and that of Gates, the

ex-deputy campaign chair who was a key witness in Mueller’s probe.</div><div>Earlier

this year, Burr stepped aside as panel chairman after coming under

scrutiny over stocks he sold in industries hit badly by the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/28/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus/?itid=lk_inline_manual_50" target="blank" class="contextual_link">coronavirus</a> pandemic. Rubio has been serving as acting chairman in his place.</div></div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/roger-stone/trump-commutes-roger-stones-sentence-following-concerted-campaign-fox-news-and-infowars">https://www.mediamatters.org/roger-stone/trump-commutes-roger-stones-sentence-following-concerted-campaign-fox-news-and-infowars</a>no vid lnxTrump has commuted the prison sentence of his longtime confidant and friend Roger Stone after Stone was convicted of lying to Congress and other crimes in what prosecutors said was a bid to protect Trump. Stone had been sentenced to 40 months in prison in February by a federal judge. Following legal wrangling over when Stone would have to report to prison, he was ordered to begin home confinement on June 26 and report to prison by July 14. He will now avoid serving any of his sentence in prison. 
During a substantial portion of Stone’s legal proceedings, he was prohibited from publicly discussing his case because of several actions he took to undermine his prosecution, including posting a threatening image of the judge who oversees his case, Amy Berman Jackson, on social media. But in April, after Stone lost his bid for a new trial, the gag order was lifted.
In the months leading up to Trump's announcement, Stone made a number of appearances at conservative media outlets where he disputed the verdict against him and pleaded for a pardon or a commutation. In recent days, Stone offered Trump an incentive to grant him clemency during several media appearances, saying that if Trump did so, he would be a more effective advocate for the president in the 2020 presidential election. 
Trump’s commutation follows a two-pronged effort in conservative media to absolve Stone of responsibility for his crimes. Stone previously worked as a host at Infowars, which has sought to undermine the case against its former employee every step of the way. And the propagandists on Fox News who often have Trump's ear have been loudly calling for clemency for Stone for months, a gambit that clearly got the president’s attention as he repeatedly amplified their commentary on Twitter.
Stone was arrested in January 2019 and charged with seven federal crimes: five counts of lying to Congress, one count of obstructing an official proceeding, and one count of witness tampering. The charges arose from then-special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in 2016 elections and focused on claims Stone made to Congress about his knowledge of plans by WikiLeaks to release hacked emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. As prosecutors alleged at trial, Stone’s lies to Congress were meant to shield Trump because the truth “would look really bad.”
In addition to being a confidant to Trump and a political “dirty trickster,” Stone has been a mainstay in conservative media, including working as a host in recent years for Alex Jones’ far-right conspiracy theory outlet Infowars. That platform attempted to interfere with the trial proceedings against Stone. Before Stone was even arrested, Infowars was already conducting a publicity campaign to pin any WikiLeaks-related wrongdoing on conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, who was also under investigation by the special counsel’s office and had also worked for Infowars but had fallen out of favor. 
After Stone was arrested, he used his Infowars platform -- which he described as “vital” to his defense strategy -- to publicly litigate his case (he has since left the outlet). When Stone was hit with an expanded gag order after he posted an image to social media that seemed to threaten Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who was overseeing Stone’s trial, Infowars figures picked up the slack. Most notably was Infowars’ head Alex Jones, who repeatedly attempted to interfere with the administration of justice in Stone’s trial. 
While jury selection was underway in Stone’s November trial, Jones, aided by Stone’s assistant Jacob Engels, attempted to out the identities of jurors during broadcasts of The Alex Jones Show while making wild allegations that the jurors were “minions” in a conspiracy against Stone. According to trial transcript, Jackson found that Jones’ actions put “the safety of all the people associated with this case, on both sides, and including, possibly, the jurors, at risk.” Also, before the jury even reached a verdict, Jones broadcast a message from Stone asking Trump to pardon him. Jackson asked prosecutors to brief the court on whether that action violated Stone’s gag order and prosecutors did include the incident in their sentencing memo that called for prison time for Stone. Jones has also claimed to have inside information about deliberations at the White House over whether Stone should be pardoned, claiming during his February 11 broadcast that it had already been decided that Stone would eventually receive one. Post-conviction, Jones continued his attacks on Jackson, in one instance telling her to “fill your hand, politically” -- a reference to picking up a firearm to use in a gun battle. 
In addition to efforts by Infowars and other parts of conservative media, Fox News also waged a campaign to seek clemency for Stone. Hours after he was convicted of all the charges against him on November 15, Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested that Stone should be pardoned, calling the outcome of the trial a “travesty.” According to reporting from The Daily Beast, the position of Carlson’s show “as a platform for pro-Stone messaging is potent enough that Trump allies who seek leniency for Stone have specifically sought to appear on the Fox News show in order to get the message to the president.” Sources close to the president told The Daily Beast that Trump watches segments about Stone on the show and discusses them with others. While Stone was under a gag order prohibiting him from discussing his case, he made an October appearance on Infowars in which he praised Carlson and other hosts at Fox News in general terms. 
After Stone was sentenced on February 20, that night Carlson called for Trump to “pardon Stone immediately,” while bemoaning the fact that “apparently there are people around the president telling him not to pardon Roger Stone or to wait until after the election.” After Stone’s gag order was lifted in April, one of his first stops was on Carlson’s show, where he claimed that going to prison would be “essentially a death sentence.” Other figures at Fox who have taken up Stone’s cause include Sean Hannity, Jesse Waters, Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee, Lou Dobbs, and Fox correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera.  

The drumbeat on Fox News appeared to have worked, as the network’s coverage of Stone became fodder for the president’s Twitter account:
Additionally, on June 27, Trump promoted an article calling for Stone’s pardon written by Tom Pappert at his conspiracy theory website National File. Pappert is a frequent Infowars guest host and his show is available for streaming at Infowars’ platform banned.video. 
Judge Amy Jackson noticed the efforts by Infowars and Carlson on behalf of Stone and it influenced the course of the criminal proceedings. During a February 25 hearing for a motion from Stone for a retrial, “Jackson read the President's tweet attacking the Stone jury forewoman, as well as commentary from InfoWars' Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson from Fox News, to a federal courtroom, in deciding to hear testimony from jurors while protecting their identities after Stone asked for a retrial,” CNN reported.
Stone is the latest beneficiary of the Fox News pardon pipeline, which has been linked to more than a dozen clemency grants. Media Matters’ Matt Gertz has written extensively on the phenomenon in which “people accused of or convicted of federal crimes and their family members and lawyers have descended on the network over the past few years, using the president’s favorite programs to plead their case to him directly.”
Trump’s commutation of Stone's sentence indicates a new chapter in the phenomenon: Not only will Fox News egg on Trump in capriciously wielding his clemency power -- often in support of his political allies -- but also in instances where the crime at hand was an effort to cover up the president’s own wrongdoing.---<h3 class="editorial-compacttitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.33333; margin: 0px; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;">r<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/roger-stone/roger-stone-accepts-trumps-commutation-during-infowars-appearance-alex-jones" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;">oger Stone accepts Trump’s commutation during Infowars appearance with Alex Jones</a></h3><p class="dateline-compact" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3rem 0px 0px; align-items: center; display: flex; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24" class="icon icon--article" aria-labelledby="icon-label--article" /><use xlink:href="#article" xmlns:xlink="xlink" /><time datetime="2020-07-16T14:25:12-0400" style="box-sizing: border-box; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;">07/16/20 2:25 PM EDT</time><time datetime="2020-07-16T14:25:12-0400" style="box-sizing: border-box; fill: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;">---</time>mmainside the right-wing media campaign to rig the justice system in favor of Roger Stone and Donald Trump02/12/20 5:07 PM ESTTucker Carlson: Roger Stone’s arrest means anyone can be arrested just for supporting Donald Trump02/20/20 9:37 PM ESTAlex Jones: Source involved in Roger Stone White House discussions says Trump will pardon him after sentencing02/11/20 3:23 PM EST220 new
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</div><div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Right-wing media figures who are attacking Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who recently sentenced Trump confidant and friend Roger Stone to prison, either don’t understand the basic mechanisms of the federal legal system or don’t want their viewers to.On February 20, Jackson <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/politics/roger-stone-sentencing-hearing/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sentenced</a> Stone to 40 months in prison after a jury <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roger-stone-found-guilty-counts/story?id=67015102" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">convicted</a> him of seven charges stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, including lying to Congress, obstructing an official proceeding, and witness tampering. Jackson, however, put a decision on hold about when Stone would report to prison while she considers a motion from Stone’s legal team for a new trial based on a claim that the jury foreperson was biased against Stone.A hearing was held on that topic on February 25 and Jackson has yet to rule, though <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/25/judge-rebukes-trump-roger-stone-jury-117442" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">according</a> to Politico she “appears headed toward dismissing the defendant’s motion for a new trial” after Stone’s legal team failed to make a convincing argument. In any case, Trump has signaled that he is receptive to calls from Stone’s right-wing media defenders to issue a pardon that would eliminate Stone’s prison sentence. According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/25/roger-stone-received-fair-trial-attacking-jurors-undermines-our-service/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Seth Cousins</a>, who served on the jury, the foreperson actually “expressed skepticism at some of the government’s claims and was one of the last people to vote to convict on the charge that took most of our deliberation time.” Cousins also wrote that the foreperson “oversaw a rigorous process, slowing us down on several occasions and advocating for the rights of the defendant.” Still, Stone’s allies and Trump himself have waged a public campaign against the foreperson, including <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/25/judge-rebukes-trump-roger-stone-jury-117442" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">during</a> yesterday’s hearing. In addition to attacks on the foreperson, Stone defenders are launching attacks on Jackson herself, including baselessly calling into question her impartiality and even spreading falsehoods about how Jackson would conduct the post-conviction retrial hearing. During his February 25 radio broadcast, Fox News host Sean Hannity <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-launches-unhinged-attack-against-judge-roger-stone-trial" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>, “You had a political activist judge running the show, the same judge in the [Paul] Manafort case,” before asking, “How is it these judges, lifetime appointments, they get away with murder?” Similarly, Fox News host Tucker Carlson <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-calls-judge-roger-stone-case-corrupt-dishonest-and-authoritarian-and" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">scandalized</a> the fact that Jackson “was appointed by Barack Obama” in order to call her “an openly partisan Democrat.” He also said that she is “a disgrace to the judiciary” and is “corrupt, dishonest and authoritarian.”It is a basic fact of our political system that federal judges are nominated by presidents who are members of political parties and these judges <a href="https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/about-federal-judges" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">serve</a> lifetime appointments “during good behavior.” And it’s a basic fact of life that some criminal defendants will be charged with federal crimes that arise out of political matters, which is what happened in Stone’s case. There is a simple reason that Jackson is presiding over both the Stone and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort cases. She was <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/defendants-special-counsels-probe-path-justice-starts-judge/story?id=61083213" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">randomly assigned</a> the Manafort case and it is the standard practice of the federal judiciary system to then give judges any other cases that may have overlapping evidence.Prior to being assigned a number of cases stemming from the Mueller investigation, Jackson sentenced a high-profile political figure to prison -- a Democrat -- and arguably showed less leniency than she did in Stone’s case. In 2013, Jackson sentenced former member of Congress Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) to 30 months in prison and fined him $750,000 after a jury convicted him of illegally using campaign funds. Prosecutors had <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-jackson/ex-u-s-congressman-jesse-jackson-jr-sentenced-to-30-months-in-prison-idUSBRE97D10B20130814" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">recommended</a> Jackson Jr. spend four years in prison, meaning Jackson sentenced him to 63% of the time prosecutors requested. While <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/19/dojs-reversal-roger-stone-sentencing-worries-prosecutors-judges/4805363002/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">senior officials</a> of the Justice Department <a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-really-happened-roger-stone-sentencing" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">interfered</a> in the sentencing recommendation against Stone, when the sentencing hearing took place, newly assigned prosecutors to the case <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/483902-prosecutor-defends-initial-doj-recommendation-at-stone-sentencing" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">ended up defending</a> the initial recommendation of seven to nine years. Jackson sentenced Stone to 40 months in prison, or 37-47% of what prosecutors asked for. Stone was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/roger-stone-sentencing/h_c11aacd6f1780974d7f7b82b0023ec83" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">fined</a> $20,000.False information about how Jackson would conduct the hearing for a new trial was also broadcast on Fox News by its chief legal analyst Andrew Napolitano. During a February 25 appearance hours before the hearing, Napolitano <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6135723464001#sp=show-clips" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">joined</a> Fox & Friends and characterized the hearing as “secret” while claiming Jackson “won’t give a reason why” and saying, “You combine secrecy and silence and that is a recipe for totalitarianism.”The publicly available docket for Stone’s trial shows that wasn’t the case:[doc]as  the docket text explains, a public hearing and a sealed hearing was scheduled for February 25. After the public hearing, where members of the public could sit in the courtroom, Jackson <a href="https://twitter.com/dsamuelsohn/status/1232380418046951425" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">cleared the room</a>, but said that <a href="https://twitter.com/dsamuelsohn/status/1232382177121329152" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">audio of the hearing</a> would be available in a listening room. The purpose of this move was solely to protect the publishing of the names and physical characteristics of members of the jury, who had been gathered at the courthouse for potential questioning. The public was still free to listen to and evaluate the substance of the hearing. The transcript of the hearing <a href="https://twitter.com/dsamuelsohn/status/1232380625463762945" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">will also not be sealed</a> and will only be redacted in instances of personal information. (In any case, the jury foreperson, who <a href="https://twitter.com/dsamuelsohn/status/1232423026324623363" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">was questioned</a>, had previously publicly identified herself in a social media post, and the media subsequently <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/25/roger-stone-judge-cites-trump-tweet-on-juror-in-hearing-on-new-trial.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reported</a> her identity.) Jackson also offered a rationale for her decision, contrary to what Napolitano claimed was happening. </div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;">As <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/politics/roger-stone-hearing-juror-amy-berman-jackson/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reported</a> by CNN, “Jackson read one of the President's past tweets attacking the Stone jury forewoman, as well as commentary from InfoWars' Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson from Fox News, to a federal courtroom, in deciding to hear testimony from jurors while protecting their identities after Stone asked for a retrial.” Indeed during the trial, Jones’ far-right conspiracy theory Infowars outlet, where Stone previously worked as a show host, led <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/roger-stone/alex-jones-trying-out-identity-potential-roger-stone-trial-juror-help-stones-assistant" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">a campaign</a> to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/alex-jones-threatens-out-jury-roger-stone-trial" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">out</a> juror identities while making <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/alex-jones-vows-release-name-potential-juror-roger-stone-trial" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">disparaging</a> remarks about them. During the trial, Jackson said that those efforts put peoples’ <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/446788513/Roger-Stone-initial-sentencing-memo" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">safety at risk</a>. The attacks from conservative media against Jackson are intertwined with Trump’s own attacks against the judge. While the hearing was underway, Trump shared on Twitter a Fox News article about Jackson that Napolitano had tweeted, adding, “A total miscarriage of justice!”</div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/roger-stone-judge-trial-amy-berman-jackson-president-trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">article</a> in question was published on February 22 and in it Trump-supporting lawyer David Schoen argued that Jackson should be removed from the case because at sentencing she offered generic praise of the jury’s work -- the same legal argument that Stone’s lawyers used in a filing that Jackson would <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/23/roger-stone-judge-berman-jackson-117066" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">dismiss</a> days later in a “sharply worded order” that “dressed down Stone's defense team for using the court's docket to air what she said were meritless claims that she is biased against him.”---related sean Hannity launches unhinged attack against judge in Roger Stone trial02/25/20 Inside the right-wing media campaign to rig the justice system in favor of Roger Stone and Donald Trump
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Alex Jones' Infowars interfered with criminal proceedings against Stone at every step, and Fox's Tucker Carlson is leading demands that Stone be pardoned
WRITTEN BY TIMOTHY JOHNSONPUBLISHED 02/12/20 
Right-wing media outlets, led by Trump allies at Infowars and Fox News, have waged a months-long campaign to interfere with criminal proceedings against Roger Stone. Now that Stone has been convicted of seven felonies and is facing the possibility of significant jail time, his conservative and far-right media defenders are drumming up support for President Donald Trump to pardon him. 
Longtime Trump confidant and friend Stone, who prosecutors argued committed his crimes in a bid to protect Trump, will be sentenced in federal court on February 20, though Trump could issue a pardon at any time. In recent days, Stone’s case has been thrown into chaos, as leaders at the Department of Justice have meddled with the sentencing recommendations of the DOJ line prosecutors who tried Stone in court, resulting in all four prosecutors withdrawing from the case.CitationVideo by Miles Le 
After Stone was arrested, he used his Infowars platform to publicly litigate his caseStone was arrested in Florida on January 25, 2019, during an early morning FBI raid of his house and subsequently charged with seven felonies related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, including lying to Congress, intimidating a witness, and obstructing an official proceeding. After appearing in court that day and being released on his own recognizance, he made his first media appearance on Infowars, where at the time he was a co-host of the weekday afternoon show War Room. Speaking with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Stone denied he had committed any crimes and promised not to testify against Trump, saying, “There’s no circumstance in which I would bear false witness against the president.” (In December 2018, Trump had faced allegations of witness tampering after he approvingly tweeted a purported quote from Stone that said, “I will never testify against Trump.”) Stone also promoted his legal defense fund several times. 
Stone’s immediate run to Infowars made sense. The outlet had already been doing damage control for Stone as it became increasingly apparent he was in legal jeopardy. Infowars had been waging a public relations campaign against former Infowars employee Jerome Corsi in an attempt to pin any 2016 election-related wrongdoing on Corsi -- who at the time appeared to have significant legal exposure from Mueller -- rather than Stone. Part of the pressure campaign involved Infowars warning Corsi not to give inculpatory testimony during a grand jury appearance about Stone’s involvement in WikiLeaks’ dissemination of hacked emails, the issue Stone would later be convicted of lying to Congress over. 
Infowars then became Stone’s public forum to litigate the charges against him. In an appearance four days after his arrest, Stone attempted to explain away the witness tampering charge he was later convicted of. On his show War Room, Stone said he hadn’t encouraged radio host Randy Credico to lie to Congress to prevent him from implicating Stone in a crime, but rather so that Credico’s liberal friends wouldn’t find out he supported Trump and get mad at him.
Stone continued to use Infowars to attack his critics. During the February 8 edition of his show, Stone complained about “leftist retards” talking about his upcoming trial. On February 12, he mentioned CNN commentator Ana Navarro, asking, “What qualifies her other than her ethnicity to comment on anything?” and saying, “Let’s see if she celebrates my acquittal,” before calling her “porquita.” During the broadcast, he also highlighted the role of Infowars in his legal defense, saying, “I’ve told you about the vital role that Infowars plays in the strategy for my defense. If I can’t come here, if I can’t come on The Alex Jones Show, if I can’t come on the morning show with David Knight, if I can’t come on the War Room, then there’s no forum where I can really go to tell people the complete story about what’s going on.”
Stone also used Infowars to praise his friend, the president. During the February 18 broadcast of The Alex Jones Show, he alleged that Trump was the victim of a “globalist” coup attempt led by elements in the FBI and DOJ and railed against the special counsel office, which was leading the criminal prosecution against him. Stone also flattered Trump, saying, “If he’s so incapacitated, why do we have 4.8 million new jobs, for example?” He added that Trump is a “leader” who is “keeping faith with the very people that voted for him.”
After Stone was placed under a gag order for posting an image showing firearm crosshairs next to the judge in his case, Infowars picked up the slackBut Stone also did something on February 18 that would stop him from fighting his legal case through Infowars when he posted an image on Instagram that showed the federal judge overseeing his case, Amy Berman Jackson, next to apparent firearm crosshairs. Stone was already operating under a gag order that prevented him from speaking about his case on the steps of the courthouse where it was being tried, but Jackson expanded the order in a February 21 hearing to prohibit Stone from talking about his case anywhere, with the caveat that he could still profess his innocence and solicit money for his legal defense fund. 
But Stone’s boss, Alex Jones, picked up where he left off. During a February 25 broadcast, Jones compared Judge Jackson to Hitler and attempted to link Mueller to Jeffrey Epstein. He also echoed language Stone had used on his show, claiming that Stone was being pressured “to bear false witness against the president” and also addressed Trump directly, saying, “And we can talk about how great Trump is all day, but he’s asleep at the switch. Tweets don’t do it, President; protect us.”
As Stone’s trial approached, he stopped appearing on Infowars but continued to go right up to the line imposed by his gag order in other public forums. During an April interview with pro-Trump propaganda outlet One America News Network, Stone complained that he was facing “process crime charges,” echoing a right-wing media talking point that had been used to attack the charges against him. In July, Stone again ran afoul of the gag order after Jackson agreed with prosecutors who said some of his Instagram posts counted as disallowed commentary on his case. Stone was banned from using social media as a result of the violation.  
Stone made one exception to his silence on Infowars while he was under gag in the pre-trial phase. In an October 25 appearance, he discussed topics unrelated to his case and made flattering comments about Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham.Alex Jones and his Infowars outlet attempted to interfere with the trial process in a way that the court said put people in dangerStone’s trial occurred in November, and Infowars attempted to interfere on his behalf -- Stone had since officially left the outlet -- throughout the proceedings. During the jury selection phase, Infowars attempted to out the identities of jurors on the trial with the help of Jacob Engels, Stone’s assistant. Amid the outing attempts, in which they named at least two people who were not actually on the jury, Jones attacked the jurors, claiming that they were involved in a setup against Stone. According to a transcript from the trial cited in a Department of Justice sentencing memo, Jackson said that Jones’ actions caused “great consternation among members of the public” and put “the safety of all the people associated with this case, on both sides, and including, possibly, the jurors, at risk.”As the jury deliberated, Stone passed a message through Alex Jones asking Trump to pardon himThe sentencing memo also mentioned Jones with respect to an incident that occured while the jury was deliberating Stone’s case. During his November 14 broadcast, Jones shared a purported message from Stone in which Stone said, “I appeal to the president to pardon me because to do so would be an action that would show these corrupt courts that they’re not going to get away with persecuting people for their free speech or for the crime of getting the president elected.” Jones then encouraged people to call the White House to demand Stone be pardoned and continued to attack the “libtard jurors.”
Video file05:06CitationFrom the November 14, 2019, broadcast of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show
Other right-wing media figures -- and even more extreme right-wingers -- have joined Infowars in campaigning for a pardon for StoneStone was convicted on all counts the next day, November 15. Reacting to the news on air, Jones read an angry text message from one of Stone’s lawyers that said Jones’ broadcast of Stone’s pardon request almost caused Stone to be remanded into custody immediately upon conviction, as the ongoing gag order also prohibited Stone from commenting on his case in public forums through surrogates. Jones defended his conduct by saying he was just “doing what Roger said.” Post-conviction, many other members of right-wing media -- most notably Tucker Carlson on his Fox News broadcast -- publicly pleaded with Trump to issue a pardon. According to reporting from The Daily Beast, sources close to Trump say that “as a platform for pro-Stone messaging,” Carlson’s show “is potent enough that Trump allies who seek leniency for the Stone have specifically sought to appear … in order to get the message to the president” and that Trump watches segments about Stone on the show and discusses them with others. 
Between conviction and sentencing, Infowars’ advocacy for Stone crossed into the territory of violent rhetoric. During a late November broadcast, Stone’s former co-host Owen Shroyer said, “Roger Stone’s fate is our fate. So if Roger Stone gets thrown in jail and dies in jail, that’s the rest of our fate. We’re all going to die from these left-wing politicos, whether that’s in jail or from a bullet [in] the head.” Stone’s assistant Engels cited the saying “would you rather die on your knees or die fighting standing up?” and Shroyer responded, “We’re not calling for violence. … But let me tell you, when you start to use the government and these bureaucracies against us, and you take away our freedom of speech, and you take away our right to a fair trial, and you take away our right to bear arms, what are we supposed to do? We’re not going to be your damn slaves.”
Video file01:33CitationFrom the November 26, 2019, edition of Infowars The War RoomAs the sentencing date approached, chaos reigned while high-level DOJ figures interfered in the caseAfter an extension, Stone’s sentencing was scheduled for February 20. The latest flashpoint in the case began on February 10, when the DOJ and Stone’s attorneys submitted their sentencing recommendations to the court. While Stone’s attorneys asked for no jail time, the DOJ recommended seven to nine years, garnering a late-night tweet from Trump about the “horrible and very unfair” recommendation. Chaos ensued on February 11 when reports began circulating that the DOJ would issue an amended sentencing recommendation. All four of the federal prosecutors who worked on the initial sentencing memo quit the case (one prosecutor left the DOJ altogether) and an amended sentencing memo calling the initial recommendation excessive was filed with the court. As rumors swirled throughout the day about the modified memo, Fox News’ Sean Hannity said on his radio show, “Something is happening that is very deep. I'm telling you this is a big deal.” Later, he praised the DOJ’s move to amend the memo on his Fox News broadcast.
Throughout Stone’s criminal trial saga, Infowars has repeatedly promoted in videos and articles the catchphrase “free Roger Stone.” In reaction to the initial sentencing memo, Infowars.com published an article criticizing the filing that provided readers with a phone number to call the White House to ask Trump to pardon Stone. On air, Jones purported to share inside information about internal discussions in the White House about Stone’s fate. Jones said that he talked to “somebody this morning who was there inside the White House meetings dealing with” the Stone situation and that Trump would issue a pardon for Stone following the February 20 sentencing. The pardon push was also seen in (slightly) more mainstream conservative media, with Carlson demanding during his February 11 broadcast that Trump pardon Stone.
Video file00:59CitationFrom the February 11, 2020, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
If Stone is pardoned, he would be the latest beneficiary of a corrupt system in which Trump grants pardons based on what he sees on conservative mediaStone’s allies are prescient to make the pardon case through conservative media. In November, Media Matters’ Matt Gertz chronicled the “Fox News pardon pipeline” and concluded that “Donald Trump’s Fox News obsession is directly linked to at least nine of his grants of executive clemency.” Despite its extreme character, Infowars has also apparently been previously influential in at least one pardon situation. Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was pardoned by Trump before he could be sentenced for refusing to comply with a court order that enjoined his racially discriminatory law enforcement practices, credited Infowars with his clemency grant. Appearing on The Alex Jones Show in August 2017, Arpaio praised Infowars as having real influence in getting his story before Trump inside the White House. Arpaio’s pardon was granted following months of Infowars public advocacy.
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How Trump’s Ratfucker Finally Screwed HimselfRevisiting our 2018 story about Roger Stone and the threatening messages that wound up getting him indicted.DAN FRIEDMAN5 HOURS AGORoger Stone and Randy Credico Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/ZUMA; John Minchillo/APRoger Stone, convicted of lying to Congress and obstructing House and FBI investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in federal prison. The piece below was originally published May 2018, and it wound up figuring into the prosecution of Donald Trump’s favorite dirty trickster. Click the highlighted text throughout for the story behind the story.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be increasingly interested in the actions of Roger Stone. Investigators have questioned former associates of Stone, the self-proclaimed political dirty trickster who has been a longtime official and unofficial adviser to Donald Trump. On Meet the Press on Sunday, Stone—who during the 2016 campaign boasted he was in direct contact with Julian Assange of Wikileaks and then later denied that he had been—said that he is “prepared” for the possibility that he will be indicted for “some extraneous crime pertaining to my business” that Mueller’s team “may seek to conjure up.”
And perhaps the pressure is getting to Stone. Randy Credico, a New York radio host and comedian, provided Mother Jones with a series of vitriolic emails he says Stone sent him in recent weeks. Reached via text message, Stone acknowledged communicating with Credico but told Mother Jones that “most” of the emails were “probably fabricated.” Stone declined to share the complete correspondence between him and Credico.
Credico and Stone were once pals. When Stone started denying after the election that he had communicated directly with Assange, Stone claimed that Credico had served as something of a go-between for him with Assange during the campaign. For his part, Credico, who has publicly championed Assange, has said that he played no such role. Not surprisingly, the former friends have experienced a falling out.
“I am so ready. Let’s get it on. Prepare to die cock sucker,” Stone messaged Credico on April 9. Stone was responding to a message from Credico that indicated Credico would release information contradicting Stone’s claims about the 2016 election and that “all will come out.” Credico tells Mother Jones that he considered this email from Stone a threat.In a text message to Mother Jones, Stone did not dispute sending this particular message to Credico. But he maintains he was not making a threat and contends that Credico is citing his words out of context. “He told me he had terminal prostate cancer,” Stone writes. “It was sent in response to that. We talked about it too. He was depressed about it. Or he was lying?” (In other messages provided by Credico, Stone appears to have said he was not threatening him.)Credico says he does not have prostate cancer and did not have such a discussion with Stone. Referring to the “prepare to die” message from Stone, Credico insists, “That was a threat.”
Credico sent Mother Jones screenshots of messages he said were from Stone, many of which appear to have been prompted by media appearances and news reports in which Credico disputed Stone’s claim that Credico acted as an intermediary between Stone and WikiLeaks in 2016. During the presidential campaign, Stone appeared to possess advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ release of Democratic emails stolen by Russian hackers. (Stone also privately communicated with Guccifer 2.0, an account suspected of having served as a front for Russian intelligence, and defended Guccifer 2.0 in public.)
Following the election, Stone changed his story to say he only had a general knowledge of WikiLeaks’ plans based on news reports and what he had learned about Assange from Credico. Yet Credico says that he had no information about Wikileaks or the stolen emails to share with Stone. Credico also claims that around the time Stone was interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee in September, Stone told him to “just go along with” his story.
Last November, the committee subpoenaed Credico, but he asserted his Fifth Amendment rights and was excused from testifying. This year, though, Credico began speaking out. In interviews with the Daily Beast, Mother Jones, and Yahoo News and for David Corn and Michael Isikoff’s Russian Roulette, Credico openly contradicted Stone’s claims that he was a source of information on Assange for Stone. These reports drew Stone’s ire.
“You are a rat,” reads one undated missive that Credico says Stone sent him. “A stoolie. You backstab your friends-run your mouth my lawyers are dying to Rip you to shreds[.]” In other messages over the past few months, Stone called Credico a liar and threatened to sue him.
An early April email to Credico—attributed to Stone—reads, “Everything I have said publicly about You has been complimentary – yet you continue to act like Nunberg,” a reference to Sam Nunberg, the former Trump aide and Stone protégé with whom Stone has had a falling out. Another email to Credico says, “Give Mueller my regards.” Another declares: “Everyone says u are wearing a wire for Mueller.” Credico tells Mother Jones he has not been contacted by Mueller.
On April 28, Credico attended the White House House Correspondents Dinner as a guest of Yahoo News’ Isikoff. At the event—from which he was ejected—Credico met Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. The men chatted and, according to Credico, Schiff invited him to meet informally as part of the Russia investigation Democrats on the committee are continuing. The Republican majority ended the committee’s official Russia inquiry earlier this year.
Credico met on Wednesday with four Democratic committee staffers. Credico says he went to the meeting to convey an invitation from Assange, who remains confined in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. According to Credico, he told the staffers that he had communicated with Assange through a Wikileaks associate, whose name he would not share with Mother Jones, and that Assange was willing to meet with Schiff.
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‘Dirty trickster’ revealed: Here are 5 of the sleaziest things Roger Stone did before joining the Trump CampaignImage via Fox News.Written by Alex Henderson February 20, 2020long before he became known for some of the shadiest machinations in the ongoing Trump-Russia scandal, the 66-year-old Stone, who returned to the GOP in 2015 after being registered as a Libertarian for three years, had a dark history in right-wing politics dating back to the Nixon era.
Stone is a self-described “dirty trickster,” and he takes great pride in it. Here are five of Stone’s sleaziest pre-Trump campaign activities.
Stone was fired by Sen. Bob Dole in the ‘70s for being a Nixonian ‘dirty trickster’Stone, born in 1952, was in his late teens when he became an aide for President Richard Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign. Although Stone has insisted that he never did anything illegal during the Watergate scandal, he has described his work during that period as “trafficking in the black arts.” After Nixon stepped down as president in August 1974 because of Watergate, Stone went to work for Sen. Bob Dole. However, he wasn’t in Dole’s employ very long; the Kansas senator fired him after he was identified by syndicated columnist Jack Anderson as being a “dirty trickster” for Nixon. One of Stone’s tricks was hiring a Republican operative to infiltrate the 1972 presidential campaign of Democrat George McGovern, who suffered a landslide defeat when Nixon was reelected.
Stone is a self-described ‘Nixonite’During Watergate, many prominent Republicans — including Sen. Barry Goldwater — distanced themselves from President Nixon. But Stone is one GOP operative who is openly proud of his work with Nixon and has bragged about being a “Nixonite.” In 2008, the New Yorker quoted Stone as saying, “The reason I’m a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit. His whole career was all built around his personal resentment of elitism. It was the poor-me syndrome.”
Stone and Paul Manafort represented Ferdinand Marcos and other corrupt dictatorsStone and Paul Manafort — Trump’s former 2016 campaign chairman and another major target of Mueller’s Russia investigation — go way back: when a 24-year-old Stone became president of the Young Republicans in 1977, Manafort was the one managing his campaign. And they went on to work together on Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign. In 1980, Stone and Manafort, along with their associate Charlie Black, formed the right-wing Washington, DC lobbying group Black, Manafort & Stone, which not only represented Republicans in the U.S. but also corrupt dictators ranging from Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines to Mobuto Sese Seko in the Congo. As bad as the Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs Manafort worked with in the 2000s and 2010s were, some of the dictators, tyrants and thugs that Stone and Manafort represented in the 1980s were even worse.
Stone was a lobbyist for Angola’s brutal Jonah SavimbiIn addition to working with dictators like Marcos and Seko, the firm Black, Manafort & Stone represented Jonah Savimbi — whose National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA in Portuguese) tried to overthrow Angola’s Marxist government in the 1980s. According to Human Rights Watch, UNITA was ruthless and “used terror as a policy to obtain supplies and coerce and intimidate civilians. Indiscriminate killings, mutilation of limbs or ears and beatings were used by rebels to punish suspected government sympathizers or as a warning against betraying UNITA.”
Stone advised Al Sharpton in 2004 — hoping to divide DemocratsIn his 2004 Democratic presidential primary campaign, the Rev. Al Sharpton had an unlikely advisor: Roger Stone, who helped the civil rights activist craft a message against Howard Dean (another Democrat who ran in that primary). When Sharpton stressed that Dean, as governor of Vermont, hadn’t had any blacks or Latinos in his cabinet, that messaging came from Stone — who, in a 2004 interview with the New York Times, said of Sharpton, “There has not been a candidate with this much charisma since Ronald Reagan.”
But Stone had an ulterior motive: he wanted to divide Democrats. Sharpton eventually dropped out of the race and endorsed Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who won the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination but lost to incumbent Republican President George W. Bush in the general election.<div>
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Roger Stone Is Convicted of Impeding Investigators in a Bid to Protect TrumpMr. Stone, a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, obstructed one of Congress’s Russia investigations and lied to lawmakers.
Roger J. Stone Jr. was found guilty on Friday of obstructing a congressional inquiry into Russia’s 2016 election interference.Roger J. Stone Jr. was found guilty on Friday of obstructing a congressional inquiry into Russia’s 2016 election interference.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesBy Sharon LaFraniere and Zach MontagueNov. 15, 2019
WASHINGTON — For decades, Roger J. Stone Jr. played politics as a kind of performance art, starring himself as a professional lord of mischief, as a friend once called him. He tossed bombs and spun tales from the political periphery with no real reckoning, burnishing a reputation as a dirty trickster.
On Friday morning, a reckoning arrived, the consequence of his efforts to sabotage a congressional investigation that threatened his longtime friend President Trump.
Mr. Stone, 67, was convicted in federal court of seven felonies for obstructing the congressional inquiry, lying to investigators under oath and trying to block the testimony of a witness whose account would have exposed his lies. Jurors deliberated for a little over seven hours before convicting him on all counts. Together, the charges carry a maximum prison term of 50 years.
In a last-minute bid for salvation, prosecutors said, Mr. Stone appealed to Mr. Trump for a pardon on Thursday, using a right-wing conspiracy theorist who runs the website Infowars as his proxy. Mr. Trump attacked the guilty verdict against Mr. Stone in a tweet on Friday but made no mention of a pardon.
To some friends, Mr. Stone’s fatal flaw was that he did not know when the time for gamesmanship was over. “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about,” he liked to say. But that mantra seemed to ring hollow as Mr. Stone, forced to stand in silence, heard a courtroom deputy read the word “guilty” seven times.
The impeachment inquiry underway nearby on Capitol Hill overshadowed news of the verdict, but it was nonetheless another setback for the president. Mr. Stone is the sixth former Trump aide to be convicted in cases stemming from the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
And the trial revived the saga of Russia’s efforts to bolster Mr. Trump’s chances of winning the White House just as House impeachment investigators are scrutinizing how Mr. Trump pressured another government, Ukraine, to help with his 2020 re-election chances.
Prosecutors said Mr. Stone tried to thwart the work of the House Intelligence Committee because the truth would have “looked terrible” for both Mr. Trump and his campaign. They built their case over the past week with testimony from a friend of Mr. Stone and two former Trump campaign officials: Rick Gates, the deputy campaign chairman, and Stephen K. Bannon, who led the campaign through its final three months and served as a White House strategist early in the administration.
Hundreds of exhibits that exposed Mr. Stone’s disdain for congressional and criminal investigators buttressed the testimony.
The evidence showed that in the months before the 2016 election, Mr. Stone strove to obtain emails that Russia had stolen from Democratic computers and funneled to WikiLeaks, which released them at strategic moments timed to damage Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump’s Democratic opponent. “Every chance he got,” prosecutors said, Mr. Stone briefed the Trump campaign about whatever he had picked up about WikiLeaks’ plans.
But he told the House committee in September 2017 that he never described to anyone involved in the Trump campaign his conversations with an intermediary to WikiLeaks.
The trial called into question Mr. Trump’s own answers to queries from Mr. Mueller. The president, who refused to be interviewed and agreed to respond to questions only in writing, said he could not recall the specifics of any of 21 conversations he had with Mr. Stone in the six months before the election.
In one of the trial’s most revealing moments, Mr. Gates recounted a July 31, 2016, phone call between Mr. Stone and Mr. Trump, just days after WikiLeaks had released a trove of emails embarrassing the Clinton campaign. As soon as he hung up with Mr. Stone, Mr. Gates testified, Mr. Trump declared that “more information” was coming, an apparent reference to future releases from WikiLeaks that would rattle his political rival.
Within minutes of the verdict, Mr. Trump protested on Twitter that it was unfair. “So they now convict Roger Stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come,” Mr. Trump wrote, though his own administration’s Justice Department prosecuted Mr. Stone.
He then listed the names of nearly a dozen favorite targets of his ire, including Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Mueller, the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and Representative Adam B. Schiff, who heads the House Intelligence Committee. “Didn’t they lie?” he tweeted, and then added: “A double standard like never seen before in the history of our Country?”
Mr. Stone joins a notable list of former Trump aides who either pleaded guilty or were convicted of federal crimes in cases stemming from Mr. Mueller’s work. It includes Mr. Gates; Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser; Michael D. Cohen, the president’s longtime fixer; George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide; and Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman and Mr. Stone’s onetime partner in a political consulting firm.
Although the counts against him add up to 50 years, the punishment for Mr. Stone, who had no previous criminal record, will almost certainly be far lighter. On the other hand, his multiple run-ins earlier this year with Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who will sentence him on Feb. 6, could work against him. After a series of infractions, including posting a photo of the judge with an image of cross-hairs next to her head on Instagram in February, she banned him from social media.
After the verdict, prosecutors asked Judge Jackson to put Mr. Stone behind bars, arguing that he had defied her once again by passing the message to Infowars’ Alex Jones, saying, “I appeal to the president to pardon me.” But the judge said it was not entirely clear whether Mr. Stone had disobeyed her and noted that he had complied with her orders in recent months.
Mr. Stone’s lawyers argued that the prosecution’s case was based on speculation and false assumptions about Mr. Stone’s motives. Mr. Stone had no reason to lie in order to protect the president nearly a year after Mr. Trump had won the election, Bruce S. Rogow, the lead defense lawyer, told jurors.
Mr. Stone had simply confined his answers to the strict parameters of the committee’s inquiry, he argued. He also said that even though Mr. Stone had portrayed himself to the campaign as Mr. Trump’s link to WikiLeaks, that was just more of Mr. Stone’s typical braggadocio.
Much of the trial revolved around relationship between Mr. Stone and Randy Credico, a New York radio host and comedian. The charge that Mr. Stone had tried to block Mr. Credico from testifying to the House committee was the most serious one he faced, carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years. Mr. Credico ultimately asserted his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refused to testify to the House committee.
He testified at the trial that despite the fact he repeatedly urged Mr. Stone to tell the truth, he falsely identified him to congressional investigators as his intermediary with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Previously in their tortured 17-year friendship, he said, Mr. Stone had treated him as his “patsy.”
In an effort to ward off Mr. Credico’s congressional testimony, the evidence showed, Mr. Stone alternately flattered, bullied and threatened the radio host. At one point, Mr. Stone pretended that he had written a letter to the House committee characterizing Mr. Credico as highly talented and successful.
At other points, he urged Mr. Credico to “Do a Frank Pentangeli,” referring to a character in the movie “The Godfather: Part II” who gave false testimony during a Senate hearing on organized crime. Borrowing a quote from Richard M. Nixon to a top aide during the Watergate cover-up, Mr. Stone texted Mr. Credico in late 2017: “Stonewall it. Plead the fifth. Anything to save the plan.”
If he refused to go along, Mr. Credico testified, Mr. Stone promised to retaliate against him and Margaret Ratner Kunstler, a lawyer for Mr. Assange and one of Mr. Credico’s dearest friends. Prosecutors described Ms. Kunstler as a particularly effective “pressure point” with Mr. Credico, an unmarried man with no children and a 34-year history of alcohol abuse.
One of Mr. Stone’s most blatant deceptions, prosecutors said, was hiding records of his communications. He told congressional investigators that he and Mr. Credico only spoke on the phone, because Mr. Credico “was not an email guy.”
In fact, in the year and a half before Mr. Stone testified, he and Mr. Credico exchanged more than 1,500 emails and text messages, including 72 texts alone on the day of Mr. Stone’s congressional testimony. Because Mr. Stone misled the committee, prosecutors said, investigators failed to pursue promising leads and arrived at inaccurate conclusions in its final report on Russia’s election interference.
Mr. Credico tried for months to warn Mr. Stone that his lies would catch up to him. Among Mr. Stone’s responses: “Nice try.” “Meaningless.” “So what.”
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By Morgan Pehme, Daniel DiMauro and Dylan Bank November 16, 2019 at 2:50 PM ESTMorgan Pehme, Daniel DiMauro and Dylan Bank wrote and directed the 2017 Netflix documentary “Get Me Roger Stone.”
They got Roger Stone.
On Friday, a federal jury found the brazen and unrepentant Republican dirty trickster guilty on seven counts of tampering with a witness and lying to Congress, offenses he committed during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. In retrospect, it seems inevitable that Stone would get his comeuppance in the end for the decades of damage he has done to the foundations of American politics. But over the 5½ years we spent following him for the making of our documentary “Get Me Roger Stone," Stone never even hinted that he believed his misdeeds would ever catch up with him.The cause of Stone’s downfall is the really striking part of the latest chapter in his astonishing story. After decades of smashing norms, he is finally going to prison because of his fidelity to an ideal of friendship that the friend in question likely doesn’t return.For those unacquainted with Stone, whom writer Jeffrey Toobin calls the “sinister Forrest Gump of American politics” in our film, he is a self-described “agent provocateur.” He proudly takes credit for his pioneering role in saturating our elections with negative ads; ushering unlimited outside money into our politics by starting the first super PAC; profiting off of representing brutal Third World dictators’ interests in Washington; and transforming K Street by trampling on the lofty notion that it is unethical for campaign operatives to make money lobbying the candidates they helped elect.
When Stone first granted us intimate access to him in 2011, he was a down-and-out political operative, more a historical figure than an active player. By the time we concluded filming in 2017, Stone had shocked the world by triumphing in his 29-year-long quest to make Donald Trump president of the United States. The moment seemed like the culmination of a lifelong devotion.
Stone was the first person ever to suggest to Trump he seek the White House. And though he failed to persuade Trump to run in 1988, Stone became Trump’s closest political adviser and prodded him every four years to change his mind until he finally prevailed in 2015.The relationship was defining, at least for Stone. In an interview we conducted for our film, Stone’s first wife, Ann, said Stone and Trump have “been married and divorced more times than I can count.” Her observation reflects both the intimacy of Trump and Stone’s relationship and its volatility. Though Stone laid the groundwork for Trump’s 2016 bid, inevitably Trump and Stone’s mammoth personalities caused them once again to feud; Stone was ousted from the campaign less than two months after its kickoff.Being cast to the periphery of a campaign he had dreamed about for decades tortured Stone. He reacted like a jilted lover desperate to be taken back — even after he got his former partner Paul Manafort hired as Trump’s campaign chairman. To woo Trump’s attention, Stone claimed he had a secret backchannel to WikiLeaks and insider knowledge of when it would release information damaging to Hillary Clinton. Our interactions with Stone at that time made us seriously doubt he was communicating with WikiLeaks in any significant way, which turned out to be the case. But the Trump campaign was struggling so badly, it was willing to hear out Stone on the off chance he had the goods.The WikiLeaks connection that Stone concocted wound up being his undoing. To maintain the charade and obscure the Trump campaign’s receptivity to his overtures, Stone lied to Congress and threatened his on-again-off-again friend Randy Credico to go along with his clumsy ruse.It didn’t have to end this way for Stone. When he lied to Congress, Stone was appearing on his own volition and could have easily changed his public story to skirt any danger to himself. Instead, he provided prosecutors with an easily demonstrable paper trail to convict him of his crimes. All because he apparently wanted to protect Trump and his standing with his old friend.Now the question is whether Trump will reward Stone’s decades of fierce loyalty with a presidential pardon. Stone has reason to fear the worst. At a vulnerable moment in one of our interviews, Stone surprised us by rejecting the idea that Trump was one of his closest friends. He said essentially that he was unworthy of the distinction because Trump was better than him, an admission that shocked us given Stone’s titanic narcissism. It also intimated to us that Stone knew Trump did not prize his friendship the way he did.That Stone appears to be reduced to appealing to his old friend for a pardon through an appearance by his daughter on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show suggests he may have been right. Roger Stone, a man who believes morality is a weakness, was ultimately brought down by friendship and loyalty.Howard Fineman: Roger Stone should be a footnote in history. Instead, his life shows our descent to shamelessness.Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent: Roger Stone’s conviction, and Trump’s ugly response, further demonstrate the president’s corruption
Dana Milbank: The Roger Stone clown show is the Trump presidency in microcosm
Timothy Naftali: How did Roger Stone survive Watergate?
David Von Drehle: The knocking of FBI agents must have been music to Roger Stone’s ears<div>
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<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30 bc" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.5;">https://www.washingtonpost.com › local › legal-issues › 2019/11/08</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2 days ago - President Trump's former strategist testifies against Roger Stone in federal court. ... “I know how to win, but it ain't pretty.” Asked what Bannon ...</div></div><div>
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</div><div>Bannon says Stone claimed contacts with WikiLeaks</div><div>
</div><div>Rachel Weiner, </div><div>Spencer S. Hsu and </div><div>Devlin Barrett </div><div>November 8, 2019 at 6:51 PM EST</div><div>
</div><div>President Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon testified against political consultant Roger Stone on Friday, telling a federal jury that he thought of Stone as the Trump campaign’s liaison to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.</div><div>
</div><div>Bannon, a high-profile figure in the Trump campaign and the early days of the Trump administration, told the jury he was appearing only because he had been subpoenaed.</div><div>
</div><div>While Bannon was one of the most anticipated witnesses at Stone’s trial for allegedly lying to Congress about his efforts in 2016 to contact WikiLeaks, he was also one of the briefest, spending less than an hour under direct examination by prosecutors.</div><div>
</div><div>His testimony bolstered the government’s allegations that Stone lied to the House committee investigating Russian election interference when he denied discussing with the Trump campaign WikiLeaks’ release of emails damaging to political rival Hillary Clinton.</div><div>
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</div><div>“He had a relationship, or told me he had a relationship with WikiLeaks,” Bannon said. “It was something I think he would frequently mention.”</div><div>
</div><div>“I was led to believe he had a relationship with WikiLeaks and [its founder] Julian Assange,” Bannon testified, based on Stone’s public statements and conversations going back years.</div><div>
</div><div>Stone and Bannon had known each other for a long time before Bannon joined the Trump campaign in August 2016, and they spoke between a half-dozen and a dozen times between then and the November election, Bannon testified.</div><div>
</div><div>Bannon said he discussed WikiLeaks with Stone as Stone was trying to learn more about hacked emails that might tank Clinton’s election run. The emails were stolen by Russian agents and shared with WikiLeaks, which released them at critical points in the 2016 election cycle, according to prosecutors.</div><div>
</div><div>After releases in summer 2016, Stone emailed Bannon, writing that “Trump can still win, but time is running out,” according to a copy of the message shown to jurors. “I know how to win, but it ain’t pretty.”</div><div>
</div><div>Asked what Bannon understood Stone’s email to mean, Bannon noted Stone’s claimed WikiLeaks connection and said: “Roger is an expert in the tougher side of politics.When you’re this far behind, you’re going to have to use every tool in the tool box .?.?. opposition research, dirty tricks, the kind of things campaigns use when you need to make up some ground.”</div><div>
</div><div>At one point in October 2016, when an expected revelation from Assange about Clinton emails proved to be a dud, Bannon sent Stone an email asking, “What was that this morning???”</div><div>
</div><div>Bannon, smiling, said on the stand that he sent the message to ask why the much-hyped disclosures did not materialize and also as “a little bit of a heckle; It was twofold.”</div><div>
</div><div>Stone replied that Assange was afraid for his safety but would still end up releasing damaging documents every week.</div><div>
</div><div>On cross-examination by Stone’s lawyer Robert Buschel, Bannon conceded that Stone never claimed to him that he had advance access to the hacked emails.</div><div>
</div><div>Stone, 67, listened intently, as he has throughout the trial. A longtime confidant of Trump, he has pleaded not guilty, and his attorneys have said any misstatements he made to Congress were unintentional.</div><div>
</div><div>Earlier in the day, former radio show host Randy Credico described on the witness stand how Stone urged him not to talk to Congress about their election year conversations. Credico said Stone threatened to damage the career of a close friend and even take away his dog.</div><div>
</div><div>Stone is also accused of witness tampering for allegedly trying to thwart Credico’s testimony to Congress. Jurors have seen Stone’s words in texts and emails, but Credico described how he understood Stone’s increasingly angry messages.</div><div>
</div><div>Prosecutors say Stone lied to protect the president when questioned in 2017 about WikiLeaks and the campaign. To keep the committee from unraveling those lies, prosecutors have said, Stone needed Credico to keep quiet and resorted to threats to try to ensure that.</div><div>
</div><div>Credico said in court Friday that Stone influenced his decision not to testify before the committee. “A lot of people played a role,” he said, “Mr. Stone among them.”</div><div>
</div><div>Trial evidence shows Stone texted Credico in April 2018: “You are a rat. A stoolie. You backstab your friends-run your mouth my lawyers are dying Rip you to shreds.” Stone later added: “I am so ready. Let’s get it on. Prepare to die.”</div><div>
</div><div>At one point, Stone texted Credico that he would “take that dog away from you,” according to trial evidence.</div><div>
</div><div>Credico said he was “sure” Stone knew how important his therapy dog Bianca was to him when he sent that message. But later when questioned by Stone’s defense lawyer, Credico said he never really feared for Bianca’s safety.</div><div>
</div><div>Credico said he was more concerned about jeopardizing the reputation of his friend Margaret Kuntsler, who did legal work for WikiLeaks and helped Credico land an Aug. 25, 2016, interview with Assange for his radio show. Once, on Stone’s behalf, Credico said he asked her for WikiLeaks’ help finding emails implicating Clinton in an incident in Libya. Kuntsler testified that she ignored the message, but Credico said Stone threatened to falsely name her as his “backchannel.”</div><div>
</div><div>Credico described Stone repeatedly asking him to “do a Frank Pentangeli,” referring to a character from “The Godfather: Part II” who is intimidated into saying at a Senate hearing that he cannot recall information he actually knows.</div><div>
</div><div>The defense has suggested that Stone was asking Credico to use his skills as a comic impressionist to imitate Pentangeli. Credico testified he understood the references as a direction to “throw .?.?. off the House Intelligence Committee.”</div><div>
</div><div>Credico told the jury that directive made no sense because “there’s a ton of photos and text messages. .?.?. If I did a Frank Pentangeli, I would look like a fool.” But Credico said he was worried that if he testified honestly, he might become the victim of “some kind of smear job” by Stone.</div><div>
</div><div>On cross-examination, Stone’s attorney painted Credico as a liar who made Stone believe he had a close connection to Assange. Credico readily admitted: “There were exaggerations, there were lies, there were rebuffs, yes.”</div><div>
</div><div>The defense tried to argue that Credico refused to testify before the House committee not because Stone threatened him but because of his own liberal political leanings.</div><div>
</div><div>“You did not want to be associated with the Donald Trump campaign?” Buschel asked.</div><div>
</div><div>“Absolutely. Would you?” Credico replied, adding later: “I did not want to be connected with Donald Trump at all.”</div><div>
</div><div>A conspiracy of hunches: Roger Stone trial set to start this week</div><div>
</div><div>Roger Stone trial: Day 1 of testimony</div><div>
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Here’s why Roger Stone’s upcoming trial could deal a major blow to Trump at a perilous time
Written by Alex Henderson October 31, 2019The Ukraine scandal and the U.S. House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump have been drawing so much media attention that previous Trump-related scandals haven’t been in the news as much — for example, the looming criminal trial of the president’s long-time associate and self-described “dirty trickster” Roger Stone. But the U.S. Department of Justice hasn’t forgotten about Stone, who will appear in court beginning on Tuesday, November 5. And Stone, journalists David Corn and Dan Friedman report in Mother Jones, could still be problematic for Trump.
Stone is facing federal charges that include obstruction of justice and witness tampering. And when he goes to trial on November 5, Corn and Friedman note, he will also be “facing charges that he lied to Congress about his interactions with WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign as the organization was publicly disseminating Democratic material stolen by Russian hackers.”
Explaining what Stone’s trial could mean for Trump, they add: “Though the trial will determine whether Stone tried to bamboozle a congressional investigation, it could answer two bigger questions about the president: did Trump use or try to use Stone as a conduit to WikiLeaks, and did Trump lie to Special Counsel Robert Mueller? The former might not be illegal; the latter could be a crime.”
Earlier this year, Attorney General William Barr publicly released, in redacted form, former Special Counsel Mueller’s final report for the Russia investigation — and most of the references to Stone in the report were redacted, Corn and Friedman point out, “because his trial was pending.” However, the journalists add that the Mueller Report “contains clues suggesting that the full story of Stone’s involvement in the Trump-Russia scandal goes beyond what’s publicly known — and that it implicates Trump.”
In 2016, Democratic e-mails were stolen by Russia hackers and given to WikiLeaks, which published them online — and Stone, in 2016, was in touch with both the Trump campaign and the Russian hacker known by the assumed identity Guccifer 2.0.
Corn and Friedman explain, “If Trump or his senior campaign aides thought Stone was communicating with WikiLeaks — whether or not he actually was — and they were receiving information from him related to WikiLeaks, that would mean they believed then that the Trump campaign had a back-channel contact to WikiLeaks as it participated in the Russian operation. Trump has long shouted there was ‘no collusion,’ but perhaps Trump thought at the time that he and his campaign were colluding. After all, a significant Trump adviser consorting with WikiLeaks at this point could be construed as some sort of collusion.”
And as journalist Marcy Wheeler argued on Sept. 6., pre-trial documents indicate that Trump was in closer contact with Stone in 2016 than he told Mueller during the Russia investigation. Trump told Mueller he spoke to Stone “from time to time during the campaign,” but the documents indicate that Trump “spoke to Stone a lot.”
Trump denied recalling any discussions with Stone on a number of fronts, saying: “I do not recall discussing WikiLeaks with him, nor do I recall being aware of Mr. Stone having discussed WikiLeaks with individuals associated with my campaign, although I was aware that WikiLeaks was the subject of media reporting and campaign-related discussion at the time.”
However, as Wheeler notes, the evidence for the Stone’s trial included seven different phone numbers for Trump — four for him personally and three for his assistants and bodyguard — suggesting they talked quite frequently. And though he didn’t charge the president for any lies, Mueller did indicate in his testimony to Congress that Trump’s answers to the special counsel were not all truthful. Stone’s trial could shed more light on this claim.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment strategy has clearly focused on the Ukraine scandal, largely leaving aside the Mueller Report. But as Corn and Friedman point out in their Mother Jones article, there is a connection between the two.
“In a way,” the Mother Jones journalists explain, “the Russia affair led to the Ukraine scandal, with Trump pressing the Ukrainian president to investigate — and prove — a nutty conspiracy theory that claimed Moscow did not hack the 2016 election.”
Stone’s trial, they add, will bring back memories of the Russia investigation at a time when the House will be weighing whether or not Trump’s Ukraine-related activities should result in articles of impeachment against him.
“This trial of a conniving Trump confidante who specializes in the political dark arts will be a reminder of the original scandal of the Trump Administration that has tainted and undermined his presidency,” Corn and Friedman report, “and it could add another big lie — and a possible crime — to Trump’s long record of wrongdoing.”
crowdstrike bs:<div>In truth, Crowdstrike’s findings were never controversial among security experts, and they were later confirmed by FBI agents with access to the same evidence, as well as additional evidence Crowdstrike never had. In October 2018, Robert Mueller indicted 12 GRU officers for the DNC intrusion and hacks targeting John Podesta and the DCCC.</div><div>
</div><div>Today the secret server hoax is mostly confined to the very edge of the conservative fringe, though it’s made an appearance in court. Indicted former Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone has been using the theory to try and get evidence against him thrown out of court, even filing an affidavit written by William Binney, one of the conspiracy theory’s most dogged advocates.  Last week the federal judge overseeing Stone’s obstruction of justice case rejected his motion without ruling on the conspiracy theory itself.</div><div>
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</div><div>Kevin Poulsen</div><div>Sr. National Security Correspondent</div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/your-regular-reminder-that-mcconnell-abetted-russian-election-interference-and-is-doing-it-again">https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/your-regular-reminder-that-mcconnell-abetted-russian-election-interference-and-is-doing-it-again</a>Running interference for the occupier of the Oval Office, the execrable Rep. Steve Scalise is <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1147494683272187904" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">attacking Joe Biden</a>, saying “Russian interference in America’s elections happened on Obama and Biden’s watch.” That’s “irrefutable” he says, pointing to a craptacular 2017 <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/obama-administration-knew-about-russian-meddling-in-august/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">CBS News report</a> from 2017 that vaguely references the “political difficulties” President Obama faced in addressing Russian hacking without once mention Mitch McConnell.<div class="p1_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Those political difficulties were entirely of McConnell’s making. He’s the guy who, in reporter Greg Miller’s <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/18/1827396/-Remember-when-Mitch-McConnell-covered-up-Putin-s-interference-to-elect-Trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">retelling</a>, was fully briefed on everything the intelligence committee knew about Russian interference. He was told that Russia was intervening to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump. And McConnell told the CIA, “You’re telling us that Russia is trying to help elect Trump. If you try to come forward with this, I’m not going to sign onto any sort of public statement that would condemn Russian interference. But I will condemn you and the Obama administration for trying to mess up this election."McConnell doesn’t have that card to play in the lead-up to the 2020 election, another one that he appears to be just as committed to helping Russia fix. As we speak, McConnell <a title="" href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/politics/mcconnell-election-security/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">continues to refuse</a> to take up legislation to protect the next election, falling back on that old saw, “states’ rights.” His excuse is that “Democrats would like to nationalize everything” and that they “want the federal government to take over the election process because they think that would somehow benefit them.” It does happen to be true that clean elections in which all eligible voters are able exercise their franchise tend to result in Democrats winning. That’s McConnell’s tell right there—he doesn’t want a clean election.<div class="p3_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">McConnell also argues that the Trump administration did a “terrific job” in working with state and local officials in the 2018 election and asks, “Where is the applause for that?” That’s in spite of the fact that <a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/24/1782938/-Bipartisan-group-of-21-state-attorneys-general-demand-congressional-action-on-election-security" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">bipartisan attorneys general</a> were pleading with a then-Republican Congress to give them some help just a few months before the election, alarmed at the threat they knew existed.<div class="p4_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A <a title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">week ago</a>, the Democratic House passed an expansive election protections bill, [zoe?] with mandatory back-up paper ballots and post-vote audits to ensure that elections systems won’t be compromised by hacking. Democrats have got more legislation coming, hoping a barrage of bills will force McConnell to respond to bipartisan pressure to break his blockade. Thus far they haven’t been able to make a dent in his refusal to consider the bills.McConnell’s obstruction might have something to do with the past big campaign donations he’s received from <a title="" href="https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/putins-proxies-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">pals of Putin</a> and the <a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/24/1852770/-Something-is-really-rotten-in-the-state-of-Kentucky-and-it-s-coming-from-Russia" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">millions</a> those same Russian oligarchs are pouring into his home state of Kentucky, in the form of capital investment in an aluminum plant. It probably has everything to do with the fact that he’s just about the least popular politician in the nation and that he’s up for reelection himself this cycle, and is <a title="" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/431002-poll-33-of-kentucky-voters-approve-of-mcconnell" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">underwater</a> in his home state, with a “razor-thin” lead over a generic Democratic opponent.<div class="p6_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So, no, Obama and Biden aren’t to blame for Russian interference in the 2016 election. Granted, Obama could have ignored McConnell’s threat and gone ahead with his warnings, but he was well aware of the lengths McConnell would go to to poison the election—he was right in the middle of McConnell’s blockade of the Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination and knew that there are no depths to which McConnell will not sink. He’ll happily do it again to win.</div></div></div></div>no lnx   When Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued the indictment against Roger Stone, a long-time ally of President Donald Trump, he filed it while noting that it was connected to another case: the indictment of Russians who hacked Democratic emails during the 2016 campaign. Stone has been charged with lying to Congress, tampering with a witness, and obstructing justice. Stone’s lawyers objected to the assertion that the cases were connected, a motion that could have triggered the case to be assigned to a different judge. But on Friday, Mueller responded to the lawyers’ objections and revealed why the cases are connected: In Netyksho, eleven Russian military officers are charged by indictment with, inter alia, conspiring to hack into the computers of U.S. persons and entities involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, steal documents from those computers, and stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. … As alleged in the Netyksho indictment, in 2016, the Netyksho defendants stole documents from the DNC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Clinton campaign chairman. Those defendants then released many of the stolen documents, including through a website maintained by Organization 1. In the course of investigating that activity, the government obtained and executed dozens of search warrants on various accounts used to facilitate the transfer of stolen documents for release, as well as to discuss the timing and promotion of their release. Several of those search warrants were executed on accounts that contained Stone’s communications with Guccifer 2.0 and with Organization 1. Evidence obtained from those search warrants resulted in the allegations that the Netyksho defendants hacked and stole documents for release through intermediaries, including Organization 1, and that Stone lied to a congressional committee investigating, among other things, the activities of Organization 1 regarding those stolen documents. Here, “Organization 1” refers to WikiLeaks, which published the stolen emails. Mueller also argued that Stone’s actions are part of the same “alleged criminal event or transaction” as those at issue in Netyksho. He explained that the “criminal conduct alleged in Netyksho was a central focus of the congressional investigation that the defendant is alleged to have obstructed, and therefore the activities underlying the crimes charged in that case are part of the same activities underlying the crimes charged in this case.” Since Stone’s lies came up in the context of an investigation the Russian election interference and possible connections to the actions of Americans, the cases are linked. “The defendant’s false statements did not arise in a vacuum,” the filing said. Reporter Andrew Prokop noted that further discussion of the warrants in question was filed along with the documents, but it was under seal.<div><div>video essays on the New</div><div>York Times on Russian</div><div>disinformation:</div><div>Operation Infektion.</div><div>(thanks Maggie!)</div><div>
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</div><div><div>OPERATION INFEKTION: A THREE-PART VIDEO SERIES ON RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION</div><div>RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION: FROM COLD WAR TO KANYE</div><div>
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</div><div>By Adam B. Ellick and Adam Westbrook</div><div>
</div><div>398</div><div>WATCH: This is a three-part film series. Scroll down and click to play any episode.</div><div>
</div><div>Russia’s meddling in the United States’ elections is not a hoax. It’s the culmination of  Moscow’s decades-long campaign to tear the West apart. “Operation InfeKtion” reveals the ways in which one of the Soviets’ central tactics — the promulgation of lies about America — continues today, from Pizzagate to George Soros conspiracies. Meet the KGB spies who conceived this virus and the American truth squads who tried — and are still trying — to fight it. Countries from Pakistan to Brazil are now debating reality, and in Vladimir Putin’s greatest triumph, Americans are using Russia’s playbook against one another without the faintest clue.</div><div>
</div><div>EPISODE 1</div><div>MEET THE KGB SPIES WHO INVENTED FAKE NEWS</div><div>We reveal how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted — the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax — went viral in the pre-internet era. Meet the KGB operatives who invented it and the “truth squad” that quashed it. For a bit.</div><div>
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</div><div>EPISODE 2</div><div>THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS OF FAKE NEWS</div><div>The Pizzagate playbook: same tactics, new technologies. How the seven rules of Soviet disinformation are being used to create today’s fake news stories.</div><div>
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</div><div>EPISODE 3</div><div>THE WORLDWIDE WAR ON TRUTH</div><div>Governments from Pakistan to Mexico to Washington are woefully unequipped to combat disinformation warfare. Eastern European countries living in Russia’s shadow can teach us how to start fighting back, but only if our politicians decide to stop profiting from these tactics and fight them instead.</div></div><div>
</div></div><div>=</div><div></div><div>AN</div><div>President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chair was pressured by a Russian oligarch over his debts, Time magazine <a href="https://time.com/5490169/paul-manafort-victor-boyarkin-debts/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">reported</a> Saturday.<div class="p0_3" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former Russian intelligence officer Victor Boyarkin “was a key link” between Manafort and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.<div class="advertisement " style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He owed us a lot of money,” Boyarkin says. “And he was offering ways to pay it back.”</div><div></div>recap overview 2016
 <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-the-russian-government-used-disinformation-and-cyber-warfare-in-2016-election-an-ethical-hacker-explains-99989">https://theconversation.com/how-the-russian-government-used-disinformation-and-cyber-warfare-in-2016-election-an-ethical-hacker-explains-99989</a>
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</div><div>Under the alias Cynthia Murphy, Russian spy Lydia Guryeva attended Columbia Business School, and ingratiated herself with a <a href="https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/the-russian-spy-ring-and-the-v-c/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">key fundraiser</a> for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. Guryeva’s instructions from Moscow, according to a 2010 FBI complaint, were to “strengthen…ties w. classmates on daily basis incl. professors who can help in job search and who will have (or already have) access to secret info” and to report “on their detailed personal data and character traits w. preliminary conclusions about their potential (vulnerability) to be recruited by Service.”</div>Now another graduate student at an urban East Coast university, who similarly cultivated powerbrokers and political operatives, is accused of being a Russian spy and taking orders from high-ranking officials in her homeland. Maria Butina, who received a master’s degree in international relations this past spring from American University in Washington, D.C., courted the National Rifle Association’s top guns and sought access to Republican presidential candidates Scott Walker and Donald Trump. She pleaded innocent last week to charges of conspiring to act as a foreign agent.If the charges against Butina are accurate, she’s only the latest in a long line of Russian agents to infiltrate U.S. universities. Dating back to the Soviet era, Russian spies have sought to take advantage of academia's lax security, collaborative, global culture, and revolving door with government. Russian intelligence understands that today’s professor of international relations may be tomorrow’s assistant secretary of state, and vice versa. Although cyber-spying and hacking offer opportunities to glean secrets at less personal risk, the traditional strategies of human espionage persist, and sending a spy to school is prominent among them.  In that respect, little has changed since 1938, when Semyon Markovich Semyonov became the first Soviet agent to enroll at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and made contacts vital to stealing scientific secrets. Or since 1958, when KGB officer Oleg Kalugin entered Columbia’s journalism school. After graduation, posing as a Radio Moscow correspondent at the United Nations, Kalugin attended events at Columbia and reported back on them to Moscow. His report on a speech about U.S.-Soviet relations by Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a Columbia professor and later national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, earned kudos from the Communist Party’s Central Committee.After that, “I went all across the country, from Harvard to Columbia and the West Coast, listening to what people said and reporting it if I thought it was interesting,” Kalugin told me. He rose to head the KGB’s foreign counterintelligence branch before falling out of favor in Russia, moving to Washington, D.C., and becoming an American citizen.Sometimes, Russian agents join the academic community as students or instructors. Of Guryeva and the other nine “illegals” — sleeper agents without diplomatic cover — who <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062905401.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">pleaded guilty</a> in 2010 to conspiring to act as foreign agents and were swapped back to Russia, seven went to U.S. universities, including Harvard, The New School, and the University of Washington. One taught politics for a semester at Baruch College, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/nyregion/30suspects.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">lambasting American foreign policy</a>.In other cases, agents hold diplomatic posts at an embassy or consulate and forage in nearby campuses for recruits and information. It’s easier, cheaper and less conspicuous for Russian intelligence to enlist a student or professor who can be steered to a federal agency than to lure someone already in a sensitive government position. Exploiting open campuses, spies slip unnoticed into lectures, seminars and cafeterias, where they befriend the computer scientist or Pentagon adviser sitting beside them.Butina enrolled in American University’s School of International Service in the summer of 2016, university spokesman Mark Story said. She concentrated in cyber policy and became a research assistant at the university’s Kogod School of Business. With research funding from the Kogod Cybersecurity Governance Center, she and two professors, Mark A. Clark and J. Alberto Espinosa, co-authored a March 2018 paper on “<a href="https://www.american.edu/kogod/research/cybergov/upload/CybersecurityKnowlNetworks_Mar2018.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Cybersecurity Knowledge Networks</a>.” (The paper is still on the center’s <a href="https://www.american.edu/kogod/research/cybergov/research.cfm" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">website</a>.) Clark and Espinosa declined comment.University spokesman Story declined to say whether Butina’s involvement with the center raises any concerns, or if the university plans to review her activities. He added that the center doesn’t do classified work and has no contracts with intelligence agencies.The cybersecurity center was founded in 2015 to provide “<a href="https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2016/11/15/sept_19_2016_amer_univ_meeting_minutes.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">guidance</a> specifically to boards of directors, senior executives, and other leaders so that they can make informed decisions about cybersecurity.” It has a <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/raytheon-partners-with-american-universitys-kogod-cybersecurity-governance-center-300271061.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">partnership</a> with defense contractorRaytheon Co., and was headed from June 2017 to March 2018 by a former lawyer for the National Security Agency.Raytheon spokesman Michael Doble said, “There is no connection between our support of this respected school and what one of its students may or may not have done.”Butina participated in February 2017 in a “<a href="https://www.american.edu/cas/carmel/news/gettysburg-dialog.cfm" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">weekend of seminars</a> and cultural immersion” in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which brought together 10 American University students from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Azerbaijan with a dozen students from Gettysburg College to discuss U.S.-Russian relations in the post-Soviet era. Susan Eisenhower — a frequent adviser to businesses and the U.S. Department of Energy, and an expert on foreign policy and national security issues —led the seminars as well as a tour of the Gettysburg home of her grandfather, President Dwight Eisenhower....=<a href="https://www.alternet.org/meet-12-russians-us-government-indicted-last-week" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/meet-12-russians-us-government-indicted-last-week</a>...12 Russian officials who were indicted by the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia. It is the fact that these people were indicted that prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to insist that American President Donald Trump turn over Americans like one of our former ambassadors, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/07/20/salon-interview-michael-mcfaul-and-bill-browder-vladimir-putins-most-wanted-men/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Michael McFaul</a>, over to his government in order to be interrogated.The key difference, of course, is that Putin is fabricating charges against McFaul and others like whistleblower Bill Browder, while the accusations against the 12 Russian officials are rooted in serious investigative work. Yet who are these dozen Russians that have been identified by Robert Mueller's investigation?According to the <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/80-netyksho-et-al-indictment/ba0521c1eef869deecbe/optimized/full.pdf?action=click&module=Intentional&pgtype=Article" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">indictment</a>, the Russian officials singled out by the government were Boris Alekseyevich Antonov, Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev, Nikolay Yuryevich Kozachek, Aleksey Viktorovich Lukashev, Artem Andreyevich Malyshev, Sergey Aleksandrovich Morgachev, Viktor Borisovich Netyksho, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Osadchuk, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Ivan Sergeyevich Yermakov and Pavel Vyacheslavovich Yershov. With the exception of Kovalev, the indictment describes all of these individuals as "GRU officers who knowingly and intentionally conspired with each other, and with persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury (collectively the 'Conspirators'), to gain unauthorized access (to 'hack') into the computers of U.S. persons and entities involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, steal documents from those computers, and stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election."The  indictment claims that these individuals hacked the email accounts of staffers and volunteers at Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign by at least March 2016, hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic National Committee by at least April 2016 and began releasing tens of thousands of stolen emails and documents by at least June 2016, continuing to do so through the month of the presidential election.And who are they specifically?According to the indictment, Netyksho is a Russian military officer whose unit (Unit 26165) "had primary responsibility for hacking the DCCC and DNC, as well as the email accounts of individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign." Antonov was assigned to that same unit and oversaw a department within it that was "dedicated to targeting military, political, governmental, and non-governmental organizations with spearphishing emails and other computer intrusion activity." Antonov is accused of having "supervised other co-conspirators who targeted the DCCC, DNC, and individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign." Badin held the title of "Assistant Head of Department" in that unit and supervised various attacks on the Democratic and Clinton-related targets chosen by the Russian government.Then there is Yermakov, who the indictment claims was a master of aliases, using "various online personas" in order to engage in a number of hacking operations. These names included "Kate S. Milton," "James McMorgans" and "Karen W. Millen." Lukashev was a senior lieutenant in the Russian military and, like Yermakov, used a number of online pseudonyms, including "Den Katenberg" and "Yuliana Martynova." Lukashev "sent spearphishing emails to members of the Clinton Campaign and affiliated individuals, including the chairman of the Clinton Campaign." Morgachev, by contrast, was in charge of a department at the unit that developed and managed malware, including one hacking tool called "X-Agent," and is charged with supervising the agents who implanted the X-Agent malware on DCCC and DNC computers and then monitored it.<a href="https://goo.gl/FAVt8c" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">READ MORE: Donald Trump, Brexit and the Russians: A dangerous turning point in "World War IV"</a>Kozachek is described in the indictment as a lieutenant captain who had been assigned to Morgachev's department within Unit 26165 and employed pseudonyms like "kazak" and "blablabla1234565" in order to do his job. He also "developed, customized, and monitored X-Agent malware used to hack the DCCC and DNC networks beginning in or around April 2016." Yershov, meanwhile, is accused of having "assisted Kozachek and other co-conspirators in testing and customizing X-Agent malware before actual deployment and use." Malyshev, on the other hand, was a second lieutenant whose work for Morgachev's department involved monitoring X-Agent malware that had been implanted on Democratic Party machines. He used pseudonyms like "djangomagicdev" and "realblatr." Osadchuk is a Russian colonel and the commanding officer of Unit 74455, which "assisted in the release of stolen documents through the DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0personas, the promotion of those releases, and the publication of anti-Clinton content on social media accounts operated by the GRU." Meanwhile Potemkin was a Russian military officer assigned to Unit 74455 who supervised a department "responsible for the administration of computer infrastructure used in cyber operations. Infrastructure and social media accounts administered by Potemkin's department were used, among other things, to assist in the release of stolen documents through the DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 personas." Throughout the document, considerable detail is given about how various email accounts owned by either the Clinton campaign or other Democratic Party bodies were deliberately targeted by individuals or groups of individuals on this list. It explains how they hacked into these accounts and what they ultimately gained from doing so. Kovalev specifically is accused, among other things, of hacking the website of a state board of elections and stealing information about roughly 500,000 voters "including names, addresses, partial social security numbers, dates of birth, and driver’s license numbers." He is also accused of hacking into the computers of a company that supplied voter registration verification software, targeting "state and county offices responsible for administering the 2016 US. elections" and visiting the websites of counties in states like Florida, Georgia and Iowa in order to find vulnerabilities.It is worth reminding the reader, at this point, of what McFaul told Salon earlier in the week — namely, that Putin is trying to create a false equivalency between the crimes he ordered committed by Russian officials and the fabricated charges he has created against McFaul and Browder."But let's be clear: What Putin was doing was assigning moral equivalency to a legitimate indictment with lots of evidence against several Russian military intelligence officers for violating American sovereignty in 2016 during the presidential elections, with a completely fabricated, cockamamie story invented by Putin," <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/07/20/salon-interview-michael-mcfaul-and-bill-browder-vladimir-putins-most-wanted-men/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">McFaul told Salon</a>. "To even, for a moment, give any kind of dignity to what President Putin proposed was not in America's national interest, from my point of view."
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 A dozen Russian military intelligence officers were indicted Friday on charges they hacked Democrats’ computers, stole their data and published those files to disrupt the 2016 election — the clearest connection to the Kremlin established so far by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of interference in the presidential campaign.
 The indictment against members of the Russian military agency known as the GRU marks the first time Mueller has taken direct aim at the Russian government, accusing specific military units and their named officers of a sophisticated, sustained effort to hack the computer networks of Democratic organizations and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
 Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced the charges at a midday news conference. Mueller, as has been his practice, did not attend the announcement. Court records show that a grand jury that Mueller has been using returned an indictment Friday morning.
 
 The suspects “covertly monitored the computers, implanted hundreds of files containing malicious computer code, and stole emails and other documents,” Rosenstein said. “The goal of the conspirators was to have an impact on the election. What impact they may have had .?.?. is a matter of speculation; that’s not our responsibility.”
 The indictment comes days before President Trump is due to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland. Rosenstein said he briefed Trump earlier this week on the charges.
 Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani said on Twitter that the indictments “are good news for all Americans. The Russians are nailed. No Americans are involved.” He then called on Mueller “to end this pursuit of the president and say President Trump is completely innocent.”
  Who has been charged in Russia probe and why VIEW GRAPHIC The 11-count, 29-page indictment describes in granular detail a carefully planned and executed attack on the information security of Democrats, as Russian government hackers implanted hundreds of malware files on Democrats’ computer systems to steal information. The hackers then laundered the pilfered material through fake personas called DC Leaks and Guccifer 2.0, as well as others, to try to influence voters.
 One of their conduits, identified in the indictment only as “Organization 1,” was WikiLeaks, the global anti-secrecy group led by Julian Assange, according to people familiar with the case. The indictment describes WikiLeaks communicating with Guccifer 2.0 to obtain material.
 On July 6, 2016, according to the indictment, WikiLeaks wrote, “if you have anything Hillary related we want it in the next tweo [sic] days prefable [sic] because the DNC [Democratic National Convention] is approaching and she will solidify bernie supporters behind her after,” referring to Clinton’s rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). WikiLeaks explained, “we think trump has only a 25% chance of winning against hillary .?.?. so conflict between bernie and hillary is interesting.”WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee emails on the eve of the convention later that month, providing an embarrassing look at party operations and attitudes toward the Sanders campaign.[Read the indictment of 12 Russians charged with hacking Democrats]
  2:43Rod Rosenstein announces indictment of 12 Russian agentsThe deputy attorney general announces the indictment of 12 Russian intelligence agents in connection with hacking during the 2016 election. (The Washington Post)
 A former Justice Department official who was previously involved in the Russia probe said the charges should serve as a warning for the United States to buttress its election security as Americans prepare to vote in congressional elections in November.
 “The detailed charges in this indictment make it unmistakably clear that the United States faces an aggressive, sophisticated adversary bent on using cyber means to subvert our democratic processes and institutions,” said David Laufman, a former chief of the Justice Department’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section. “Now is the time for unequivocal recognition of this threat by both the executive branch and Congress, and for a unified and well coordinated commitment to confront it.”The indictment offers troubling new accusations about the extent of Russian hacking efforts and interactions with Americans.“On or about August 15, 2016, the conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, received a request for stolen documents from a candidate for the U.S. Congress,” the indictment states. “The conspirators responded using the Guccifer 2.0 persona and sent the candidate stolen documents related to the candidate’s opponent.” The indictment does not identify the candidate.The indictment also describes an online conversation between the GRU, posing as Guccifer 2.0, and a “person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump.”People familiar with the case said that person is longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone. In August 2016, the hacker persona wrote: “please tell me if i can help u anyhow .?.?. it would be a great pleasure to me.”Stone’s lawyer Grant Smith said, “It is clear from the indictment issued today that our client, Roger Stone, was not in any way involved with any of the alleged hacking of the 2016 election. As he testified before the House Intelligence Committee under oath, his 24-word exchange with someone on Twitter claiming to be Guccifer 2.0 is benign, based on its content, context and timing.”U.S. officials identified one of the GRU sections that carried out the operations as Unit 26165, which worked out of a building about four miles from the Kremlin. It was responsible for hacking the DNC and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, according to the indictment, which accuses Viktor Netyksho of being the military officer in command of Unit 26165 at the time.Although the DNC was able to partially kick the Russian hackers out of its system in June 2016, the indictment says three months later, the GRU “successfully gained access to DNC computers hosted on a third-party cloud-computing service” which held “test applications related to the DNC’s analytics,” according to the indictment. The hacker stole that data from the DNC, the indictment said.Another group of Russian military officers, Unit 74455, working out of a building that GRU officers referred to as the “Tower,” used fake online personas to spread stolen files, officials charged. The indictment identifies Col. Aleksandr Osadchuk as the commanding officer of that unit.The indictment also notes an interesting development on July 27, 2016 — the day then-candidate Trump gave a press conference declaring his hope that missing Clinton emails would be found and made public, saying: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”The indictment says “on or about” that same day, “the conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a third-party provider and used by Clinton’s personal office. At or around the same time, they also targeted seventy-six email addresses at the domain for the Clinton campaign.”The Russian Foreign Ministry rejected the indictment’s allegations as lacking evidence and described the charges as a clear effort to derail the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki.“It is unfortunate that distributing false information has become the norm in Washington, and that criminal cases are being initiated based on clearly political motives,” the ministry said. Referring to the Mueller investigation, the statement went on: “The question remains how long this shameful comedy that is embarrassing the United States will go on.”Rosenstein said the hackers interacted with some Americans in the course of their efforts but noted that those people had not been charged with a crime.“When we confront foreign interference in American elections, it is important for us to avoid thinking politically as Republicans or Democrats and instead to think patriotically as Americans. Our response must not depend on who was victimized,” he said. “There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide and conquer us. So long as we are united in our commitment to the values enshrined in the Constitution, they will not succeed.”Mueller and a team of prosecutors have been working since May 2017 to determine whether any Trump associates conspired with Russia to interfere in the election. With the new indictment, his office has filed charges against 32 people on crimes including hacking, money laundering and lying to the FBI. Twenty-six of those charged are Russians who are unlikely to ever be put on trial in the United States.In February, Mueller indicted a group of Russian Internet trolls who worked out of the Internet Research Agency, a company based in St. Petersburg and owned by a wealthy associate of Putin.[Russian troll farm, 13 suspects indicted in 2016 election interference]
 Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, is in jail in Alexandria, Va., awaiting trial this month on financial fraud charges brought by Mueller but stemming from activities that predated the Trump campaign.
 Mueller’s probe has come under sustained attack from Trump and at a press conference in England on Friday before Rosenstein spoke, the president again labeled the investigation a “witch hunt.”
 “I think that we’re being hurt very badly by the — I would call it the witch hunt,” said Trump as he stood beside British Prime Minister Theresa May. “It really hurts our relationship with Russia.”
 Rosenstein said of his decision to brief Trump, “It was important for the president to know what information we’ve uncovered because he’s got to make very important decisions for the country. He needs to understand what evidence we have of foreign election interference.”frum bk:press: hannity and new say no indep media eg CNN
 local fox crew said gianforte guilty, but not asked to be on nat'l; rush applaid, 116K$ ON election day 113
 russian dis-info 400 ppl, 20m ri8bles (400K$ per mo; 40 rooms0 russian version of FB, made fake ppl on US soc media 115; 100K ads; target 10 m ppl in slected districts and states; msg reached 126M FB users 116.
 russia ~ Fr Macron, so vidfeo ell cut hand wash inverted; rebel media posobiec got adv notce of email dump; big overlap betw anti-marcon and pro djt, 18K bots; 118
 cernovich pizzagate guy got WH leaks (susan rice unmasked)
 trad media tried to be balaced, so any crumb or djt normalcy touted 120
 media restriction 1st sign of decline of democ 122<div>
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</div><div>On Capitol Hill, representatives of Facebook told lawmakers Wednesday the company unwittingly sold $100,000 worth of advertisements to a Russian company that aimed to polarize the U.S. electorate on issues of gun rights, immigration, LGBTQ rights and racism. The company was described as a Russian "troll farm" with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda. Democratic Congressmember Adam Schiff cited the move as evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.</div><div>
</div><div>=</div>=<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/world/europe/trump-russian-lawyer-fsb-kgb.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/world/europe/trump-russian-lawyer-fsb-kgb.html</a><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="242" data-total-count="242" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;">MOSCOW — The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. last year after his father had won the Republican nomination for president had once represented <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/russiaandtheformersovietunion/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" title="More news and information about Russia and the Post-Soviet Nations." class="meta-loc">Russia</a>’s top intelligence agency in court, according to at least two public records.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="315" data-total-count="557" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;">The lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, who is now at the center of the political intrigue over the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia during <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/donald-trump?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Donald J. Trump." class="meta-per">Donald J. Trump</a>’s presidential campaign, represented a military unit founded by the Russian Federal Security Service in 2002, publicly available records show.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="133" data-total-count="690" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;">The service, known as the F.S.B., is the successor agency to the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/k/kgb/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about KGB" class="meta-org">K.G.B.</a> and was once headed by President <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/vladimir_v_putin/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Vladimir V. Putin." class="meta-per">Vladimir V. Putin</a> of Russia.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="312" data-total-count="1002" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;">Ms. Veselnitskaya insisted after her June 2016 meeting with Mr. Trump’s son was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html">first reported by The New York Times two weeks ago</a> that she had no ties to the Kremlin and never worked for the Russian government. A Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, has said Ms. Veselnitskaya “has nothing to do with us.”<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="259" data-total-count="1261" id="story-continues-1" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;">Still, the court documents showing the lawyer’s link to the Russian spy agency, which was first reported by Reuters, are likely to intensify interest in her by American investigators who are examining the relationships between the Trump campaign and Russia.... =Hackers and Hacks
 
 Julian Assange
 Conservatives once called for the WikiLeaks founder to be locked up. During the 2016 campaign, Trump allies, including Roger Stone and Alex Jones, hailed him as a hero for releasing hacked emails from the DNC and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. (Stone claimed to have “back-channel communications” with the hacktivist during the campaign.) Assange—who has taken refuge in Ecuador’s London Embassy since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over rape allegations (the case was dropped in May)—has claimed the source for the hacked messages was not the Russian government. The US intelligence community begs to differ. WikiLeaks’ release of the first batch of Podesta’s emails was curiously timed: It dropped less than an hour after a video clip of Trump bragging about sexual assault went public. Thereafter, the material was released in daily batches—that is, in a manner designed to inflict maximum harm to the Clinton campaign.
 Guccifer 2.0Guccifer was the handle of a notorious Romanian hacker who was sentenced to 52 months in prison in 2016. Guccifer 2.0 is the online persona that surfaced in June 2016 to take credit for hacking the DNC. The persona has claimed to be a lone wolf from Romania, but the intelligence community and outside experts have concluded that Guccifer 2.0 (which direct-messaged with Stone) is almost certainly a front for Russian intelligence. It’s a misogynistic one at that. “I’ve never met a female hacker of the highest level,” Guccifer 2.0 wrote last year. “Girls, don’t get offended, I love you.”
 DC LeaksThe mysterious website and its associated Twitter feed popped up in June 2016. Over the course of the campaign, it published the hacked emails of military and political targets, including Colin Powell, NATO commander General Philip Breedlove, and the campaign staffs of Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham. The people behind DC Leaks, which is no longer active, claimed to be “American hacktivists,” but the US intelligence community reported that the site was a front for Russia’s military intelligence service.
 
 Trump is already guilty in the Russia scandal—here’s the evidenceRT and Sputnik
 In its joint report on Moscow’s election meddling, the US intelligence community described RT, the TV network formerly known as Russia Today, as “the Kremlin’s principal international propaganda outlet.” The report noted it “has actively collaborated with WikiLeaks”; Assange hosted a show for the network in 2012. RT also has controversial ties to Flynn, who was paid to speak at a 2015 gala for RT in Moscow and frequently appeared as an analyst on the network. Another Kremlin-supported outlet, Sputnik, spread fake news while boosting Trump and attacking Clinton. In late May, newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron confronted Putin about Russian meddling in the French elections and slammed the two news outlets as instruments of “lying propaganda.”
 Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear
 The shadowy groups are affiliated with different branches of the Russian security apparatus. Cozy Bear has been linked to a variety of cyberattacks against government and corporate targets throughout the world, including a 2015 spear-phishing attack on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm hired by the DNC, Cozy Bear first targeted the DNC in the summer of 2015. Fancy Bear penetrated the DNC’s network in April 2016, apparently unaware Cozy Bear had gotten there first. The group’s targets have ranged from the World Anti-Doping Agency to the German parliament.=WFB BS? Ukrainian Rebel Commander Identified As Russian GRU Military Intelligence ColonelKey figure in covert Russian subversion campaign in eastern Ukraine Igor Vsevolodovich GirkinIgor Vsevolodovich Girkin     BY: Bill Gertz  edJune 20, 2014 5:00 am A key figure in covert Russian efforts to destabilize eastern Ukraine is working for Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, according to U.S. officials. Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, who is currently using the nom de guerre Igor Strelkov, has identified himself in press reports as "defense minister" of the self-proclaimed, pro-Russian "Donetsk People’s Republic. This week he called for Russia to send military aid to rebels in eastern Ukraine. U.S. officials said Strelkov is considered a leading pro-Russian rebel who is undermining stability as part of a major Russian covert action program in Ukraine.  Officials said Girkin is a GRU colonel who was first identified by the Ukrainian SBU intelligence service. Girkin traveled to the Crimea in February and traveled to Donetsk in April. While in the Crimea was a military adviser to Sergei Aksenov, the current head of Russian-occupied Crimea. He is also a close aide to the so-called Donetsk prime minister, Alexander Borodai, who is also a Russian. Borodai also worked with Aksenov in Crimea, an indication the Russians may be planning a similar annexation in the Donetsk region. Girkin and Borodai were employed by a Moscow investment firm called Marshall Capital. That company is owned by Konstantin Valeryevich Malofeyev, who has been linked to funding of pro-Russian separatist activities in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. On Friday, the Treasury Department imposed financial sanctions on Girkin and six other Ukrainian separatists for their role in seeking to destabilize Ukraine. "The United States will continue to take action to hold accountable those persons engaged in efforts to destabilize Crimea and eastern Ukraine," said David S. Cohen, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. "These individuals have all contributed to attempts to illegally undermine the legitimate government in Kyiv, notably by falsely proclaiming leadership positions and fomenting violent unrest." Girkin led the abduction of military observers in Ukraine, and attacked military brigade and stole a large cache of weapons, Treasury said in a statement. Disclosure of GRU activities in Ukraine comes as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, criticized Moscow’s covert subversion. "The tactic that Russia is using is one I would describe as proximate coercion, subversion, and misinformation," Dempsey told a Senate defense appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday. The strategy is to mass forces on the border and threaten the use of force and employ subversion through surrogates and proxies, along with misinformation to arouse ethnic populations, he said. "I doubt that there'll actually be a full-blown invasion," he said. "But we've got to be alert to the other tools that [Putin] may use to actually undermine stability, notably in the Baltics and in some of our Eastern European allies." Russia has "lit a fire" in Ukraine that is burning out of control and the country is facing a "very difficult path," Dempsey said. In London, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday that Russian troops were again building up along Ukraine's eastern border, and Russian forces were seen conducting troop maneuvers nearby. U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports said Russian covert action programs have been underway in Donetsk and Luhansk, as well as other areas. The rebels downed a Ukrainian military helicopter on May 29, killing a key Ukrainian general and demonstrating they have advanced anti-aircraft weapons. The rebels are known to have portable anti-aircraft missiles, anti-aircraft artillery, and armored troop carriers. The missile that downed the helicopter could not be confirmed as having been supplied by Russia, but other arms found after battles with rebels have revealed they were recently shipped from the Russian military. Intelligence reports also indicate that Russia is sending Russian troops disguised as Ukrainian to support pro-Russian rebels in the region. Rebels have described the Russians as "volunteers," including Cossacks from southern Russia. Similar tactics were used prior to the takeover of Crimea in March. Another indicator of covert Russian forces is the discovery of a unit called the Vostok, or East, Battalion, a well armed group of ethnic Chechen special operations commandos who are fighting with the rebels. An earlier Vostok force was set up by the Russian military using ethnic Chechen special operations commandos who specialize in urban warfare and who were led by Russian officers. The unit was dispatched to earlier conflicts in Chechnya and in the battle with Georgia in 2008. Officials identified the border town of Antratsyt, near Luhansk, as a key base for the infiltration of both Russian fighters and weapons. The newly elected government in Kiev this week offered to halt its military operations against eastern pro-Russian separatists. Newly-elected President Petro Poroshenko offered amnesty to rebels that surrender. The amnesty was limited to rebels that were not involved in capital crimes. Poroshenko also offered to allow Russian fighters to return to Russia. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday that the plan will only work if the Russian government supports it, something that has not happened so far. "Russia of course must support the peace plan instead of continuing to support the separatists on the ground," she said. On Tuesday, Psaki said there were reports of renewed Russian troop movements close to the Ukrainian border. "Our concern has been focused more, naturally, on the actions of the Russian separatists and the movement of military tanks and other equipment across the border," she said. Other reports indicated Moscow is covertly delivering arms, including tanks and rocket launchers, to rebels in eastern Ukraine, in addition to the intelligence operatives. Regarding Girkin, the GRU officer was quoted in a Russian newspaper on Monday as calling for Moscow to send military aid to two so-called "people’s republics," in Donetsk and Luhansk. The eastern Ukrainian cities are strongholds for anti-government rebels. "I am calling on Russia as the commander of the [Donetsk People’s Republic] militia and as a patriot of Russia and the Russian people. It can be considered as an appeal on behalf of the Donetsk militia," he told the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. "If Russia does not take prompt and decisive action, they [the Ukrainian Army] will achieve their goal," he told another pro-Russian news outlet. "Several thousand militiamen near the Russian border cannot stand long against powerful enemy artillery and aviation." Girkin said his militia lack funds and supplies. "We can ‘bite' the enemy, attack them from the flank, we can operate through sabotage and reconnaissance forces, but we cannot change the situation only with heroism," he told the pro-Russian LifeNews outlet. The GRU, acronym for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff, is playing the key role in Moscow’s efforts to destabilize Ukraine following the military annexation of Crimea earlier this year. So far, several GRU officers have been exposed by Ukrainian authorities, including GRU Lt. Col. Kirill Koliuchkin, a naval attaché expelled by Kiev for spying activities. The European Union in April imposed sanctions on more than a dozen Russian officials, including GRU Director Lt. Gen. Igor Sergun. The sanctions are largely symbolic but including Sergun on the list highlights the key role being played by GRU spies in Ukraine. In addition to GRU operatives in eastern Ukraine, Russia’s Spetsnaz special operations commandos also are engaged in subversion. Mark Galeotti, a New York University professor who writes the blog "In Moscow’s Shadows," stated in a recent post that the GRU has been given new life by Russian covert action in Ukraine. The service, under Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former officer in the rival KGB, has faced large-scale cutbacks in personnel from 2009 to 2011. Over 1,000 GRU officers and about 80 GRU generals were dismissed, retired, or transferred to other units, Galeotti stated. The cutbacks were the result of bureaucratic infighting with the civilian foreign spy agency SVR, acronym for Foreign Intelligence Service, and the domestic political police and spy agency known as the FSB, for Federal Security Service. Galeotti said the GRU is a key element of Russian asymmetric military-political warfare tools. "They are less valuable as straightforward war-fighters and much more so as covert operators and the facilitators of other deniable operations," he said. "Not only may the Ukraine conflict help stop–or at least bring a temporary ceasefire to–internecine struggles within the Russian security apparatus, it may well prove the savior of the GRU in its current configuration."</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>