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Occam’s razor is generally stated in layman’s terms as …
"the simplest explanation is usually the correct one"
So let’s get “simple”.
Fact 1) Trump’s former Campaign advisor admitted to and wrote about personally talking with the source of the DCN hacks — WHILE the leaking of the private campaign data to WikiLeaks was still on-going.
by Andrew Blake — The Washington Times, March 10, 2017
Roger Stone, President Trump’s former campaign advisor, engaged privately last year with a persona involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee, he told The Washington Times Friday, but insisted the conversations were “completely innocuous.”
“It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it,” the political consultant told The Times on Friday with respect to a private Twitter exchange he had with “Guccifer 2.0,” a pseudonymous entity explicitly tied to the DNC hack.
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Mr. Stone wrote an article for Breitbart News on Aug. 5 attributing the DNC breach to Guccifer 2.0, not Russia, and swapped a handful of direct messages with the persona in the weeks that followed, according to copies of the conversations provided to the Times.
In one of the messages dated Aug. 14, Mr. Stone said he was “delighted” that Twitter had reinstated Guccifer 2.0’s account following a brief suspension. [...]
Fact 2) Trump’s former Campaign advisor Roger Stone recently went so far as brag he had a “back channel” to WikiLeaks — before thinking twice it, and trying to delete the post.
Fact 3) There is no “permanent Delete Key” in cyberspace. Ooops!
by Julian Borger in Washington, TheGuardian — 7 March 2017
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Roger Stone, a former Trump adviser, wrote on Saturday night that he had a “perfectly legal back channel” to WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange. Stone then deleted the message.
In early January, the CIA, National Security Administration (NSA) and FBI assessed with “high confidence” that Russian military intelligence was behind the anonymous hackers Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks.com, which stole data from prominent Democrats and passed it on to WikiLeaks.
“Moscow most likely chose WikiLeaks because of its self-proclaimed reputation for authenticity. Disclosures through WikiLeaks did not contain any evident forgeries,” the agencies found.
Fact 4) Despite Stone’s alibi that he thought the source of the DCN hacks, was some random hacker (going by the name of Guccifer 2.0) — the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI found otherwise.
Fact 5) The CIA, the NSA, and the FBI found with “high confidence” that Guccifer 2.0 was really just an alias-moniker for “Russian military intelligence.” Oopsie #2.
Fact 6) Roger Stone is not your average run-of-the-mill Trump advisor — turns out the pair, they go Way Back. Longer than many Marriages in fact.
by Eames Yates and Brett LoGiurato, BusinessInsider — Jan. 31, 2017
Roger Stone has been Donald Trump's friend and confidant for roughly 40 years. Stone, who's also the author of The Making of the President 2016, discusses why he thinks Washington, D.C. is in shock and explains why he supports President Trump's travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Fact 7) Roger Stone’s firing/resignation back in August of 2016 was supposedly because of “Trump’s behavior” — it had nothing to with his own revealing of “sources and methods” in his Brietbart article a few days prior (at least according to Mr Stone).
by Jim Geraghty, nationalreview.com — August 10, 2015
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On Saturday, Trump’s campaign issued a
statement saying it had fired Stone because “
Roger wanted to use the campaign for his own personal publicity.” Stone responded by showing the media his
resignation letter, which declared that “
current controversies involving personalities and provocative media fights” had
become a distraction from the campaign’s message.
It’s hard to overstate just how close Trump and Stone have been over the years. Their professional and personal relationship goes back more than three decades. Trump without Stone is akin to George W. Bush without Karl Rove or Barack Obama without David Axelrod. [...]
Twelve years later [in 2000], when Trump launched a presidential exploratory committee, Stone served as its chairman.
Think of where Fox News would be without Roger Ailes, GW without Rove, well Trump has Roger Stone, always whispering the next play in his ear.
Roger Stone is not a nobody in the Trump story. They go way back.
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CIA are you listening …? What’s that old saying about the Cover-up being worse … ?
Nixon tried to delete the worse of his Tapes too, as I recall. Look how well that episode turned out.
… We shall see. If Justice is still a thing … that back-woods plumbers can fix.