He Questions the Premise of Russiagate? Off With His Head! by Barbara Boyd

June 21—The filing by four Assistant several search warrants by the Mueller United States Attorneys in the name of the EDITORIAL team, many of his associates were called United States on June 20, seeks, once before Mueller’s Washington, D.C. again, to force , or anyone Grand Jury, and he was arrested unarmed outraged by the circumstances of his case, to shut up, lest and in his pajamas via a televised, armed SWAT-type Stone be immediately jailed. The triggering episode this assault on his Florida home. time, was Stone’s challenge to the main premise of the Stone has challenged the search warrants in the entire Russiagate myth—that truthful documents pub- case, many of which appear to rely on the premise that lished by WikiLeaks concerning the efforts by the Dem- the WikiLeaks DNC publications resulted from a Rus- ocratic National Committee to sabotage Bernie Sanders’ sian military operation. Stone submitted affidavits from 2016 primary campaign against , and ex- former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney and com- posing Mrs. Clinton’s craven ties to Wall Street, were the puter security expert Peter Clay, demonstrating that it is direct result of illegal Russian mili- likely that the WikiLeaks DNC tary hacks of the Democratic Na- files were accessed internally at the tional Committee (DNC). DNC by someone with access to Stone stands charged with lying the DNC computer system and pro- to Congress and obstruction of jus- vided to WikiLeaks on a thumb tice concerning the Russiagate drive. This expert forensic analysis hoax. After almost two years of in- is based on the metadata associated vestigations in Congress and with the actual WikiLeaks files. through Special Counsel Robert If there was no Russian military Mueller, the Mueller Report dem- operation that provided the onstrates that there was no conspir- WikiLeaks DNC files, then the acy or collusion between the Trump entire dangerous and false Russia- Campaign and Russia. Special gate narrative fails, and evidence Counsel Robert Mueller and other C-SPAN produced from search warrants investigators of the mythical con- Roger Stone based on that falsity must be sup- spiracy-and-collusion narrative, pressed. In support of that suppres- tried to pin Stone as the non-existent link between sion and other motions, Stone’s attorneys sought unre- WikiLeaks and the Trump Campaign. dacted versions of the computer forensics of the DNC In pursuit of this objective, Stone was called to tes- computers produced by the NATO-associated, private tify before the House Select Committee on Intelligence, DNC vendor, CrowdStrike, upon which the intelligence and, according to prosecutors, lied about his email cor- community relied for its assertion of a Russian hack. respondence with WikiLeaks and raged at a Mueller witness, Randy Credico, who, according to Stone, had No CrowdStrike DNC Forensics? No Problem! provided information to Stone about the timing of Shockingly, it turns out the United States govern- WikiLeaks’ various disclosures. Stone was subjected to ment does not possess unredacted and final versions of

50 10 Minutes from World War III EIR June 28, 2019 CrowdStrike’s DNC forensics report—upon which it ment’s non-possession of unredacted reports from the relied in its January 2017 assessment that the Russians DNC’s computer security vendor. Under Stone’s extant hacked the DNC and , and then arranged gag order, anything Judge Amy Berman Jackson deter- the WikiLeaks publication in order to swing the elec- mines to be derogatory or prejudicial to the prosecu- tion to Donald Trump. tion, authored by Stone or people she deems to be as- According to the prosecutor’s filing seeking a modi- sociated with him, lands Stone in jail pretrial. fication of Stone’s conditions of release on bail pending The real motivation for this new threat is, in all trial, Stone posted on his Instagram account the simple probability, a damage control effort aimed at Attorney fact that CrowdStrike’s unredacted reports were not General Bill Barr and an audience outside the Beltway, available to the United States. Other individuals and which has yet to imbibe the Russiagate Kool-Aid. journalists who have been disputing the entire fake In addition to the threat to jail Stone, prosecutors Russiagate narrative also noted this astounding fact. were allowed to file an additional opposition to his According to the prosecutors, Stone’s postings and the motion to suppress. In that filing, the prosecutors swear other news coverage concerning the redacted and in- that the indictment of 12 Russian GRU officers for the complete CrowdStrike reports produced to Stone’s de- so-called Russian hack and influence campaign was fense team and the government, fans the flames of po- based on some independent investigation by Mueller tential prejudice against the prosecutors’ case against that did not rely on CrowdStrike. Roger Stone. Since no one but CrowdStrike ever examined the al- This contention has absolutely no basis in reality. leged crime scene at the DNC, and the FBI itself was Stone will face a jury pool in Washington, D.C. that has relying on CrowdStrike’s forensics, it is difficult to as- been pounded by the Russiagate narrative and is ex- certain what that investigation might have been. The traordinarily anti-Trump and hostile to anyone associ- government’s supplemental filing contains nothing but ated with him. Stone is already under a gag order which a conclusory two-sentence assurance that they did bans him from any effective attempt to reverse this something, other than to rely on the discredited DNC prejudice. There is not exactly an onslaught of coverage computer security vendor. True to form, they aren’t in the press available to the jury pool about the govern- saying what the something was.

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