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Does anyone ever wonder why the Trump Administration bashes Intelligence Agencies every chance they get? Why they never go to them to ‘back up’ their own Wiretapping accusations of the prior president? Why they’d rather source Brietbart and Alex Jones (and Fox Commentators) — than career professionals with billions in hardware and ‘software’ substantiating their Assessments?
Could it be, that the Intelligence Agencies laid waste the “cover stories” that Trump and his ‘fixer’ were promulgating in the heat of their Campaign operation …
First a little “pre-Wikileaks” background, on this “unpaid” Trump advisor, who has been in the Trump-world shadows for nearly forty years . (It seems the lack of “payment” hasn’t stop Stone from dishing the dirt, whenever it’s needed however.)
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What’s Really Going On Inside Trump’s Political Operation?
by Jason Zengerle, gq.com —March 30, 2016
Last week, after the National Enquirer published a salacious story alleging that Ted Cruz had had at least five extramarital affairs, the Texas senator not only denied the story but singled out the person he believed was responsible for planting it: veteran Republican strategist—and on-again, off-again adviser to Donald Trump—Roger Stone.
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[According to Roger Stone himself, regarding the Ted Cruz smear story: ] Well, let me ask the most obvious question. If I were going to plant the story as a dirty trick, why would I be quoted on the record in same story? I wasn't born yesterday. Why would I leave a big old thumbprint if I was trying to do something surreptitious? [...] I think I was a convenient scapegoat. I understand the game. Ted's trying to deflect from his own potential culpability here by blaming the whole thing on Trump. And, look, I'm a brand name when it comes to dirty tricks. He called me a henchman, and I don't really object to that, but henchmen get paid, and I have been paid nothing by Trump.
Stone was not above doing “henchmen” work for Trump however — be he paid for it or not — as he did with his follow-up commentary on the alleged Cruz-affairs story (on New York radio), and as reported by RealClearPolitics.com on March 28, 2016: [emphasis from source]
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MORANO: Why should we care about who Ted Cruz sleeps with?
STONE: Neither you or I are running for president... And he is, and he holds himself out as a moral exemplar, and I think it is the hypocrisy that once again is problematic here.
Where's his lawsuit? Where's his $100 million lawsuit against the National Enquirer...
Little did the “Henchman of Dirty Tricks” know, that his protegee was about to have his own “moral exemplar” crisis in few short months himself — one that would make the Cruz-sex-dirt look like ‘beach sand on the doormat’. Trump’s “fixer” would have to dig deep into his bag of tricks, if he were to somehow eclipse that damning Billy Bush tape, that were soon to become public. And “dig” he did.
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It's True: WikiLeaks dumped Podesta emails hour after Trump video surfaced
by Aaron Sharockman, politifact.com — Dec 18, 2016
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The tape was discovered and first published by the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold right around 4 p.m. ET on Oct. 7. Fahrenthold shared a link to his story on Twitter. [Tweet shown]
Less than an hour later, WikiLeaks revealed that it had received 50,000 of Podesta’s emails. It released 2,050 initially. It, too, shared the news via Twitter. [Tweet shown]
We authenticated the time of each tweet using the Twitter source code and this very helpful blog post. We obviously cannot assess if the two events were connected, as Podesta suggested, but on the timeline he’s right on.
So what does this “Rival News dump” have to do with Roger Stone, Trump’s fixer? Well it seems that Stone has this little problem — one not befitting of Dirty Tricksters — he likes to brag about his work. (Could that be why he’s still “unpaid”?)
Roger Stone recently Tweeted this self-incriminating statement (after the fact) — and then immediately tried to delete it:
To security establishment, WikiLeaks' CIA dump is part of US-Russia battle
by Julian Borger in Washington, TheGuardian — 7 March 2017
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.
Roger Stone also made several self-incriminating statements (before the fact) — when trying reassure Trump donors. (Somehow Stone mysteriously foreshadowed their planned October Surprise — in exquisite detail.)
Roger Stone claims he has 'perfectly legal back channel' to Julian Assange
by Alan Yuhas in Washington, TheGuardian — 5 March 2017
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During the campaign last August, Stone was recorded on video telling a group of Florida Republicans: “I actually have communicated with Assange.”
“I believe the next tranche of his documents pertain to the Clinton Foundation, but there’s no telling what the October surprise may be,” he said.
He then seemed to preview the WikiLeaks dump of Podesta emails, writing on Twitter: “Trust me, it will soon the Podesta’s time in the barrel.” [21 Aug 2016]
In October, he told a local CBS reporter about “a back-channel communication with Assange, because we have a good mutual friend”.
Question for Mr Stone: If it’s a “legal back channel”, then why Delete the Tweet? Why brag about doing it at all — you know, leaving your “surreptitious thumbprints” all over it, as you once said you were “too smart” to do about the Cruz-smear campaign?
Could it be that these subsequent intelligence assessments, about Roger Stone’s second “back channel” source, has NOW made him think twice about (the legality of) the “charity” business he’s in …
[from the Julian Borger, Guardian article: ]
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.
Too bad for the “bragging Trickster”, he had already “associated himself” with at least one of these Russian monikers, in a screed an article Stone himself got published Brietbart.com, back on Aug 5, 2016: (Speak in the 3rd person much, Roger?)
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Now, ask yourself: Why is Roger Stone the guy showing you this? This website isn’t hidden but of course our pathetic press patsies haven’t reported it; they just keep repeating Hillary’s spin.
Before I tell why Hillary’s dishonest blame-casting is so dangerous, let me explain a little more about why it seems like Guccifer 2.0 is the real deal. He seems to have set up a Twitter account back in June and then a WordPress blog to let the world know that he’d hacked the DNC.
A month before Wikileaks released any info, Guccifer 2.0 put up a bunch of documents to prove that he’d really done the hack. [Tweet shown June 20, 2016]
[...] Clinton and her minions needed SOMETHING.
Inspiration stuck: ignore Guccifer 2.0. The DNC being hacked by one person didn’t look sinister enough. Time for the victim card! Blame the Russians! Blame Putin! Blame Trump!
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That August post was really some poor timing for the Trump Brand, named Stone, as his “version of hacking events” was about to be exposed for the the House of Cards it really was (and still is).
Too bad for “back channel” Stone — that the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI all agreed: “Russian Military Intelligence was behind the anonymous hackers”. With “High Confidence” in their assessments, as reported by The Guardian (and in their own Intelligence report):
Russian president Vladimir Putin interfered in the US presidential election to aid Donald Trump, according to a declassified assessment by the NSA, CIA and FBI.
“We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump,” the agencies found in a long-awaited report that stands to hang over the head of the incoming Trump administration.
The report (pdf), for weeks the subject of leaks that have incensed and vexed Trump, contradicts the contention from his transition team that Russia did not prefer him in the 2016 election, as well as Trump’s insistence that the culprits behind the hacks of Democratic political figures are fundamentally unknowable.
And too bad for “swamp channel” Trump — that his own theory of the Democratic Party Hackers case — doesn’t ‘hold water’ either (after the fact). In fact his “cover story” explanation is about as leaky as a Roger Stone Twitter-feed sieve …
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Once again politifact.com sets the “Blame Game” record straight — a day late, and about a ‘Billion dollars’ short ...
Pants on Fire! Trump tweet about White House, Russian hacking probe
Debate 10/19/16
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Oh well, so much for the Fourth Estate being the “Watchdog of Democracy” — it’s more like Trump’s Lapdog, on “empty podium” watch — the way they all follow his every Tweet, as if from ‘on High’ …
The Trump-Stone “cover stories” (at the time), should inform us (at this time) about the whole new “distraction story”, namely Trump’s “Tower-wiretap-gate” accusations (if the past were to be any prologue).
IOW, Once a liar, always a liar — that’s just SOP for how the Trump Business is done. Just as there is No consequences NOW, for all the false tales of “a 400 pound Hacker sitting in his basement,” feeding dirt to Wikileaks. Given the pathetic state of the Media, it no longer seems to matter, that the Hacking honors goes to other Named Sources and back-channel methods, if the truth were ever to be told.
If, if, if ...