Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of Roger Stone may be the most peculiar document to emerge from the Trump-Russia "Collusion" saga.
Surely a quarter-century of "Potential" incarceration would have sufficed to give prosecutors the "This is serious stuff" headline they crave while allowing for the more representative sentence Stone will eventually receive - who knows, maybe three weeks? But true to form, Mueller instead included six of these five-year counts - so the press can report that Stone faces up to 50 years in the slammer.
Here Mueller uses Stone as the pretext to spell out the Big Collusion Scheme: Candidate Donald Trump instructs Stone to coordinate with WikiLeaks on the dissemination of Clinton dirt stolen by Russia; Stone directs his associate, Jerome Corsi, to have Corsi's man in London, Ted Malloch, make contact with WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange, who is holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
In Stone's case, that would dictate omitting the ambitious collusion narrative and stripping down to a two-page obstruction-of-Congress indictment.
Mueller strains to accuse Stone of falsely denying that he had a second WikiLeaks "Intermediary" - whom the indictment indicates was Jerome Corsi, Stone's Infowars associate.
Just three days later, Stone sent Corsi an email with the subject line "Get to [Assange]." Stone exhorted Corsi to try to reach the WikiLeaks leader "At Ecuadorian Embassy in London and get the pending emails ... they deal with the [Clinton] Foundation allegedly".
So why did Stone believe WikiLeaks had Clinton Foundation documents? Well, Stone is acquainted with Charles Ortel, an investor who dabbles in investigative journalism and has focused intently on the Clinton Foundation.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/roger-stone-indictment-proves-no-evidence-of-collusion/
Surely a quarter-century of "Potential" incarceration would have sufficed to give prosecutors the "This is serious stuff" headline they crave while allowing for the more representative sentence Stone will eventually receive - who knows, maybe three weeks? But true to form, Mueller instead included six of these five-year counts - so the press can report that Stone faces up to 50 years in the slammer.
Here Mueller uses Stone as the pretext to spell out the Big Collusion Scheme: Candidate Donald Trump instructs Stone to coordinate with WikiLeaks on the dissemination of Clinton dirt stolen by Russia; Stone directs his associate, Jerome Corsi, to have Corsi's man in London, Ted Malloch, make contact with WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange, who is holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
In Stone's case, that would dictate omitting the ambitious collusion narrative and stripping down to a two-page obstruction-of-Congress indictment.
Mueller strains to accuse Stone of falsely denying that he had a second WikiLeaks "Intermediary" - whom the indictment indicates was Jerome Corsi, Stone's Infowars associate.
Just three days later, Stone sent Corsi an email with the subject line "Get to [Assange]." Stone exhorted Corsi to try to reach the WikiLeaks leader "At Ecuadorian Embassy in London and get the pending emails ... they deal with the [Clinton] Foundation allegedly".
So why did Stone believe WikiLeaks had Clinton Foundation documents? Well, Stone is acquainted with Charles Ortel, an investor who dabbles in investigative journalism and has focused intently on the Clinton Foundation.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/roger-stone-indictment-proves-no-evidence-of-collusion/
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