So just to bring everyone up to date, Roger Stone, GOP dirty trickster, has denied making the threatening phone call to Pops Spitzer. He has also apparently been fired from his job representing New York State Republicans in their investigation of alleged dirty tricks done on behalf of Gov. Spitzer (D), which seems reasonable enough when you think about it.
So what of Stone’s accusation that the owner of his apartment building, who is also a Spitzer contributor, arranged for Spitzer operatives to break into Stone’s New York City apartment, use his phone and impersonate his voice, in order to set him up to look like he made the call?
In this morning’s Times, State Senator George Winner (R), who chairs the committee now investigating Spitzer and his deputies, suggested that Stone’s improbable claims might in fact be true and that the technology Stone refers to does in fact exist. In an interview with the Times, “Mr. Winner also noted that technology is available that makes it possible to mimic another personâs phone number on a caller identification machine.”
So we’re now trying to find out whether Sen. Winner believes Stone may have been the victim of a break-in by Sptizer forces and whether he plans to have his committee investigate the alleged break in.
We’ll bring you our findings shortly.
Late Update: One of the NYT’s blogs has a run-down of earlier literary interpretations of Mr. Stone and his career of dirty tricks, bamboozlement and sundry antics. Fun morsel: at 19 Stone was apparently the youngest of the Watergate dirty-tricksters.
