Diana Stancy CorrellOct 13, 2017, 9:08 PM
Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone has "complied" with the House Intelligence Committee's request to provide the identity of his emissary with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Stone's attorney said on Friday.
A useful parable and life lesson for the Special Prosecutor ...
"There's a Pony in There Someplace" ... A young father tried very hard to prepare his son for the ‘real world’ by providing challenging experiences. His son was a natural optimist and never learned the hard lessons Dad wanted him to learn…he always saw the bright side.
The father wracked his brains trying to think of something that would force his son to see the dark side, the unhappy side of life. He desperately wanted to toughen his son up so he would develop a jaundiced eye.
He thought he had a plan. For Christmas, he transported a four-foot high pile of horse manure into the house, right next to the Christmas tree. Surely, this, as his only present, would humble and humiliate the child and he could properly navigate the cold cruel world.
Christmas morning came, and the father told his son that there was one present for him by the tree. The child ran down the stairs, beheld the pile, and jumped up and down in glee.
“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! This is the best present ever! Oh, Daddy. I love it!”
The mystified father dropped into his chair in confusion. A huge pile of manure as his only present, and the boy was ecstatic? How?
The father repeated…”This is your only present. This is all you get for Christmas.”
“I know!! I’m so excited!”
“Son, why are you happy to get a pile of manure for Christmas?”
“Oh, Daddy!! There’s a pony in there someplace!”One day after a subpoena was threatened if Stone refused to comply by Friday, Grant Smith, an attorney for Stone, said "Mr. Stone has complied with the committee's requests. No further statement will be issued," according to CNN.
- Smith did not disclose whether that meant Stone actually did reveal the identity of the intermediary.
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Stone dismissed claims he had any prior intel that WikiLeaks would release Podesta's emails. Rather, he said the statement was based off his own investigations of Podesta.
Stone testified before the House intelligence panel during a closed session in September, where he fielded questions about contacts with the Russian hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 during the 2016 election. Members of the U.S. intelligence community have said they believe Guccifer 2.0 was used by Russian intelligence to propagate stolen emails.
Although Stone claimed during the hearing he did not participate in any collusion with the Russians to interfere with the election, he told reporters afterward he answered all questions, except he did not disclose the name of his intermediary with Assange.
Stone claimed the exchange with his intermediary was an off-the-record discussion with a journalist and he would not disclose the journalist's identity, although he said he would follow up and ask the journalist if he could unveil the journalist's identity.
Stone has said he had no direct contact with Assange and said he learned Assange had obtained Democratic National Committee emails in June via Twitter. He said he contacted the journalist, whom he said had interviewed Assange, to verify the report was true.
THERE IS A MORAL TO THE STORY ... THE SPECIAL PROCESUTOR IS STILL DIGGING LOOKING FOR THE MIRROR TO SEE THE REAL VILLAN.
