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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed May 30, 2018, 01:02 PM May 2018

EXCLUSIVE Senate Intelligence Committee Now Wants to Grill Roger Stone

Source: The Daily Beast


Stone told The Daily Beast he hopes the interview with the committee will be public, and said he has “already begun to think about what to wear.”

BETSY WOODRUFF
05.30.18 12:48 PM ET

The Senate intelligence committee has asked to interview Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s longtime political adviser and self-described dirty trickster.

Stone’s lawyer, Grant Smith, told The Daily Beast that the committee last week sent them an email with a list of search terms for communications to use to determine which electronic communications to turn over to the Senate Intelligence Committee. At the same time, according to Smith, the committee said its members would like to question Stone after receiving the documents. Smith said the process has been amicable and that the interview date has not yet been set.

Stone told The Daily Beast he hopes the interview with the committee will be public, and said he has “already begun to think about what to wear.”

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Stone, in emails written to an associate of WikiLeaks founder-slash-embassy crasher Julian Assange, had solicited “damaging” information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the late stages of the 2016 presidential campaign. That appears to be inconsistent with his September testimony before the House intelligence committee, when he said he “merely wanted confirmation” of Assange having dirt on Trump’s political opponent.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/senate-intelligence-committee-now-wants-to-grill-roger-stone?ref=home

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catbyte

(34,454 posts)
2. Yeah, I'll bet.
Wed May 30, 2018, 01:05 PM
May 2018

I don't trust the Senate to do the right thing any more than the House. Nothing but softball, CYA questions.

BumRushDaShow

(129,483 posts)
8. Guess who is on that Committee who will light his butt up?
Wed May 30, 2018, 02:08 PM
May 2018

Angus King (lawyer) & Kamala Harris (lawyer).

Warner (Vice-Chair & lawyer) and Feinstein will probably be firm but diplomatic. Manchin will be a notch under them. Wyden (lawyer) & Heinrich will be a notch above Warner & Feinstein.

But watch out for King & Harris to NOT throw softballs!

catbyte

(34,454 posts)
13. If they allow them to either ask their questions or compel Stone to answer.
Wed May 30, 2018, 05:35 PM
May 2018

I saw the Kabuki Theater that was the House Intelligence Committee. They have a few hard asses on the committee, too, but they were effectively shut down. Perhaps I'm being too cynical.

BumRushDaShow

(129,483 posts)
14. Oh no no no. The the difference between the Senate and House Committees
Wed May 30, 2018, 06:56 PM
May 2018

are like day and night. Burr may try to "enforce" the time limits but remember that Nunes is basically a Russian agent and that whole committee is tainted by that. And regarding compelling an answer, realistically, they can't really do that as he could do a Sessions with the "I don't recall" or whatever. But I am wondering if they might decide to reconsider and do this in closed session like they did Bannon.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
3. I can hear it already,
Wed May 30, 2018, 01:05 PM
May 2018

Just like from sxxthole soon, he'll become the victim, and claim something made up , again like sxxthole does.

deurbano

(2,895 posts)
5. He should wear something backless to show off the full extent of his ratf#ucking Nixon obsession.
Wed May 30, 2018, 01:34 PM
May 2018

<<Stone told The Daily Beast he hopes the interview with the committee will be public, and said he has “already begun to think about what to wear.” >>

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/02/the-dirty-trickster





Judi Lynn

(160,629 posts)
10. Roger Stone should wear a shirt he can remove quickly so they can see his Richard M. Nixon tattoo.
Wed May 30, 2018, 03:20 PM
May 2018

That's bound to impress them.

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