Top Senate Intel Dem Suggests There’s More To Come On Stone And Wikileaks

Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., right, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, listen as Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about his role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the investigation into contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russia, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
FILE - In this June 13, 2017, file photo, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., listens during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Warner said an overhaul of the security clea... FILE - In this June 13, 2017, file photo, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., listens during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Warner said an overhaul of the security clearance process is long overdue, particularly if the U.S. government is going to continue to attract top-notch workers and recent graduates, and not hamper transitions of mid-career intelligence professionals from agency to agency. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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After a federal grand jury indictment of President Trump ally Roger Stone, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee suggested there’s more yet to become public on Stone and his involvement with Wikileaks.

“I expect that we will learn more about Mr. Stone’s campaign role, his communications regarding Wikileaks, and who else knew about Stone’s efforts,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said in a Friday morning statement.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has interviewed several top Trump allies, including Paul Manafort, the former campaign chair who was close to Stone, and Steve Bannon, who it appears was in communication with Stone about Wikileaks’ release of Democrats’ hacked emails. Those interviews and additional intelligence that the committee is privy to have not been made public.

Stone was indicted on one count of obstructing an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering, all stemming from his alleged attempts to communicate with both Wikileaks and the Trump campaign about Democrats’ stolen emails during the 2016 campaign.

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  1. It just keeps getting better and better for our side.

    Now if they could just open the federal government, we’d be back in business.

  2. Avatar for davidn davidn says:

    Tip of the ol’iceberg you are saying there Mark?

  3. “…every day you see
    one more card…
    you take it on faith…
    you take it to the heart…
    the Waaaiting is the Hardest Part.” - TPetty

  4. When is Donald Trump Jr., who we know lied several times under oath to investigators and congress, going to be indicted?

    We also know Jeff Sessions lied several times to both investigators and congress, when is he going to be indicted?

    It seems as though Steve Bannon is next in line having communicated directly with Roger Stone over releasing Democratic emails stolen by the Russians.

    The fact that several, almost all, high lever Trump campaign officials and his first team of advisers and cabinet appointees collaborated with the Russians is beyond a reasonable doubt. That this includes Trump’s children means that Trump cannot weather the storm. Rather, like when they got close to Nixon, Trump will either have to fire the special prosecutor and end the investigation or resign as president.

  5. We’re gonna need a bigger Supermax prison…

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