As I noted before today's news firehose started in earnest, SSCI didn't consider RU hacks of election vendors (as opposed to states). Yet we know RU did hack some vendors. https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/05/09/the-gaping-holes-in-the-ssci-voting-security-report/ …
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I think that's right. I've been puzzled by what, precisely, Stone is being investigated for, and am growing increasingly suspicious that this may be it.
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I suspect there are several areas where Stone was a key participant in seeding the propaganda RU wanted. Key among those is the Seth Rich shit.
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I have a hard time figuring out what charge that corresponds to, though, unless it's simply an overt act within a CFAA or ConFraudUS conspiracy.
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Oh, it's a ConFraudUs conspiracy. Plus probably some other things.
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I can see that, but if I were the prosecutor, I wouldn't want that to be my keystone charge on Stone. There's no bad case law on using the charge that way, but there's also not a lot of great case law. And for various reasons, DOJ hates dealing with staged conspiracy charges.
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What do you mean by "staged conspiracy theories"?
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Conspiracy charges. DOJ guidelines, IIRC, recommend charging all members of a conspiracy simultaneously, because later-charged conspirators gain an an advantage over earlier-charged conspirators -- something you don't want if you're ladder-climbing.
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