In news being eclipsed by the media focus on the #MAGABomber, we note that Mother Jones has published text messages showing Roger Stone actively sought a presidential pardon for Wikileaker Julian Assange.
“I am working with others to get JA a blanket pardon,” Stone wrote, in a January 6 exchange of text messages obtained by Mother Jones. “It’s very real and very possible. Don’t fuck it up.” Thirty-five minutes later Stone added: “Something very big about to go down.”
The recipient of the messages was Randy Credico, a New York-based comedian and left-leaning political activist who Stone has identified as his backchannel to WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign—a claim Credico strongly denies.
Of course, here at Breitbart Unmasked, whenever we read about the increased focus on Stone, we feel a special thrill at the possibility of Robert Mueller’s dragnet snagging a particularly nasty little fish named Lee Stranahan.
Lee is the jolly chap just to the right of Dead Andy Breitbart on the book cover shown here.
Regular BU readers are familiar with Lee, former Breitbart.com writer. Scam artist. rape apologist, Pornographer who attempted to sell his wife’s virtue for cash. Now working for Vladimir Putin on the Russian outlet “Sputnik.”
So, how does the slimy slug trail left by our Lee tie into the noose tightening around the skinny throat of Roger Stone?
The New York Times laid out the Stranahan Connection in July.
In addition to WikiLeaks, the Russians made contact with Americans who held sway both in Republican circles and with Mr. Trump, the indictment says. It does not assert that the Americans knew that Guccifer 2.0 was a creation of Russian spies.
Those figures included Roger J. Stone Jr., the longtime Trump friend who exchanged messages with Guccifer during the campaign but said in an interview on Saturday that he did not believe at the time that Russian state actors were behind it. “I originally thought he was a Romanian hacker because that’s what he claimed to be,” Mr. Stone said.
There was Lee Stranahan, who is now a co-host of “Fault Lines” on the Russian-owned Sputnik radio network but back then was at Breitbart News, whose chief during that period, Stephen K. Bannon, joined Mr. Trump’s campaign that August.
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Using Guccifer 2.0 as their main means of communication, the Russian agents had regular contact with both conservative and mainstream journalists, the indictment said. In one case, it said, the Russians gave an unidentified reporter a password to view documents. The Smoking Gun said in a Twitter message that it was the “reporter” in the reference. In another case, according to the indictment, the Russians conferred with a writer about the timing of one planned leak; Mr. Stranahan announced on Twitter that he was the writer, then at Breitbart.
Mr. Stone described his interactions with Guccifer as “pretty innocuous,” noting that after the account “sent me some voter model which evidently they sent to a number of people, I looked at it and said ‘pretty standard stuff’ and didn’t pass it on to anybody.”
The avatar was particularly complimentary to Mr. Stone, telling him at one point, “Please tell me if i can help u anyway … it would be a great pleasure to me.”
That was in keeping with the chummy and sometimes self-deprecating personality that the Russian military operatives gave Guccifer 2.0 as they sought, according to prosecutors, to use it to build relationships with Americans.
“Hi man, how’s life,” it said by way of introduction in a direct message to Mr. Stranahan. (Mr. Stranahan said in a video message over the weekend that he did not know of ties between Guccifer and Russian intelligence and is not convinced even now.)
For those who may feel the NYT is fake news, take it from the store-bought pearly whites of Lee Stranahan!
First, some history.
I’m the person who got Roger Stone involved in this entire story in the first place.
In the summer of 2016 I began looking at the claims of “Kremlin hacking” of the DNC. They NEVER made sense.
I wanted to write about it for Breitbart.
But I had a problem. pic.twitter.com/UPB8Strw5K
— 𝙻𝚎𝚎 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚑𝚊𝚗 (@stranahan) December 10, 2017
Does this mean Lee has done anything illegal? At least as far as the Mueller probe is concerned?
Time will tell.
Given Stranahan’s willingness to scrape a buck off of any filthy surface he finds in a trash can, would we be surprised in an indictment against Stone included Stranahan?
“Doctor” Stranahan would be forgiven if he had the self-awareness or sense of shame to be feeling very nervous these days.