Trump adviser admits to contact with DNC hacker

[fountainofyouth]

Source: The Hill

Roger Stone, President Trump's former campaign advisor, on Friday admitted to having private conversations with a hacker who helped leak information from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during last year's campaign.

Stone insisted to The Washington Times that the conversations were "completely innocuous."

"It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it," Stone told The Times of a private Twitter conversation he had with a hacker known as Guccifer 2.0.

Guccifer 2.0 is believed by the U.S. intelligence community to be a cover identity for Russian intelligence. The intelligence community concluded that Moscow sought to interfere in last year's election specifically to help Trump win.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/323477-top-trump-adviser-admits-to-contacting-dnc-hackers-report

[Renew Deal]

1. It was so forgettable that he bragged about it more than once.

"Podesta time in the barrel."
"Hillary is done"

Lock him up

[Warpy]

5. I'm sure Eichmann's conversations were alway perfunctory, brief and banal, too

That Republicans aren't horrified by this man is very telling. They are the worst threat this country has ever faced, a completely lawless, conscienceless racketeering organization hiding behind the name of a political party.

Stine needs to be locked up. He's not the only one.

[Mc Mike]

11. He should have been jailed after Watergate. He got away with it, so

it just emboldened him to continue in his felonious and treasonous behavior.

Like Manafort.

If Stone had gotten just a minimal sentence back then, in a low security country club jail, he's so odious and nasty that he might have been shanked even there. Which would have saved the nation quite a bit of heartache.

[mpcamb]

22. Let's put him there now.

Another serial liar who shouldn't be allowed near public office.

[rickford66]

15. Do you mean Ehrlichman?

or the NAZI Eichmann ?

[Warpy]

16. I can spell.

[rickford66]

17. I know but #11 referenced Watergate

[ColemanMaskell]

28. Ever?

You say they're "the worst threat this country has ever faced"?
"Ever" is a long time.
It includes the Civil War, the burning of the White House during the war of 1812, and WWII.
Not to mention the Teapot Dome scandal, the Great Depression, McCarthyism, and similar colorful periods.

I'd think the Civil War would outscore the current political situation, if you're going to use the word "ever".

The near ubiquity of the bone-chilling attitudes of most of the current Republican office-holders is alarming, but I'm not sure it is worse than the witch hunt mentality during McCarthyism, and I am quite certain it is not worse than the underlying philosophy of the dehumanization that enabled slavery, a dehumanizing attitude that was pervasive for decades after slavery ended, an attitude with tentacles still firmly planted in our current culture.

Today's Republican philosophy seems to have generalized the dehumanization of the "other" from the racism, xenophobia, and so on that were common in previous eras; Today it approaches being equal opportunity dehumanization of a much larger group designated as "other". It is more difficult to ignore now simply because you and those close to you are now more likely to be included in the vast group whose lives are deemed worthless by those currently in power.

Just sayin', "ever" is quite a long time, if you want to put this in historical perspective.

[Granny M]

29. Early days yet.

They're working hard on being the very best worst threat.

One frightening difference today is the nuclear arsenal.

[George II]

2. It's always "innocuous" when they do it, crooked if anyone else does it.

[UpInArms]

3. the building is infested with termites

we need an exterminator

[vlyons]

4. How is this not treason?

The hubris and complete lack of morality by these goons astounds me.

[FakeNoose]

23. In their minds, it's just "politics"

or maybe "dirty tricks."

So yeah from where I'm sitting, it sure looks like treason to me.

[groundloop]

27. Reagan got away with treason, 45* figures to follow in his footsteps

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Amazing how things surface.

Somebody got a knock on his door and he is trying to build himself a wall. Watch this story get legs.

[Vinnie From Indy]

7. Is this not a smoking gun?

[Stonepounder]

19. No such thing. NOTHING will be done.

Trump hasn't seen any erosion in his base and doesn't believe that the protests against him are anything but 'paid protesters'. And the GOP Congress is too busy trying to push through its Objectivist dream to be bothered with Trump, since he is a useful distraction from the bills they are trying to get rushed through before anyone notices.

The more I see, the more I don't think we will be able to recover from Trump and his GOP traitors.

[FakeNoose]

24. Too many people are involved

Something's gotta give, somebody will crack.

We just have to keep at it, and keep looking for the 2017-version of Deep Throat.
I'll guarantee you there will be one.

It won't matter how popular Trump is at that point.

[red dog 1]

8. More "grist for the mill".

..of impeachment?

K&R, thanks for posting.

[C Moon]

9. In my head I picture those old 40's cartoons

when the character is going crazy trying to plug up leaking water holes with his fingers and toes.

[Brother Buzz]

10. I'm thinking The Three Stooges

[WhiteTara]

12. "so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it."

That is how easy it is to be evil.

[Mc Mike]

13. Another wave of amnesia hits the repug party, en masse.

[DeadLetterOffice]

14. When will it be "enough" to get rid of these punks? n/t

[DK504]

18. Even I have heard of Guccifer 2.0....

"It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it," Stone told The Times of a private Twitter conversation he had with a hacker known as Guccifer 2.0. "


Is there any one left in the government that serves the country, not the party.

[DeminPennswoods]

20. Stone's up to his eyeballs in this

If the feds bring him in and put the squeeze on him, he will sell everyone else involved down the river real fast to save himself.

[Amaryllis]

21. WAht would be news is if any of them Didn't have Russia contacts.

[briv1016]

25. Did he weigh 400 pounds? Was he sitting on a bed during the meeting?

[bullimiami]

26. He is an accessory to a crime. There is no innocuous.

He was in contact with an ongoing criminal enterprise and did not report it and benefitted from it.