Mueller indicts twelve Russian spies

Mueller indicts twelve Russian spies

Although Roger Stone was not indicted and was not accused of "knowingly" communicating with the Russian intelligence service, he is pretty clearly referenced as their patsy.

Page 16: "The Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, also communicated with U.S. persons about the release of stolen documents. On or about August 15, 2016, the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, wrote to a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump."

That would be Stone, who has in fact bragged about his communication with Guccifer, and has called Guccifer a hero..

August 13, 2016: Stone tweets at @wikileaks @GUCCIFER_2 that it is “Outrageous” that Twitter has suspended Guccifer’s account.

August 13, 2016: Stone tweets that Guccifer is a “HERO.”

August 14-September 9, 2016: Stone communicates privately with Guccifer 2.0 using Twitter’s Direct Messages. (Only after a news outlet revealed the existence of these communications in March 2017, Stone publishes the exchange. Stone says this is the entirety of his communication with Guccifer, but the exchange ends abruptly, and there is no way of telling if the two did not continue through other Twitter accounts or other platforms.)

Rosenstein announced that he was presenting no evidence to show that Americans knowingly conspired with Russian intelligence officers. In doing so, Rosenstein implied that Stone is merely a "useful idiot" and not a traitor. The Russians apparently duped him and used him. Stone seems to have been unaware that he was calling the GRU (Russian intelligence service) his "hero." As Bugs Bunny used to say, "What a maroon!"

Of course there may be other undisclosed evidence that could result in a Stone indictment, but at this moment that does not seem to me to be likely.