He coordinated with Assange. .
he was convicted for that?
That was basically it. The premise is that Assange is a Russian agent at the point. Most folks have no clue what is happening to Assange, right now, this month, as we speak. Yet he did no wrong.
So Stone, knowing that this whole reality is all based on a lie?
But he knew that the ground rules were fixed, so what was there to do, but lie? (Or take the fifth.) It was all very Kafkaesque.
Lying about the connections he had to Assange, b/c the court and the security state made false assumption about Assange which could be deadly dangerous for anyone now exposed as having connection to him.
Or through to him. Through other journalists, radio personalities etc.
. . . but Assange and he were working together, even if the FBI could never prove it conclusively. Even the most avowed Trump supporter, if they were paying attention, watching any of the INFOWARS or other underground YouTube channels he was disseminating info on, know he was in contact with Assange. Shit, most folks that were paying attention to Trump's campaign probably know more than the half-witted, partisan as shit, echo chamber liberal FBI/CIA on a mission to destroy folks for that Hillary organization.
Bill Binny told everyone it was a leak and not a hack, and all you had to do is look at the stake holders interests behind the folks that did the forensic analysis, to know that those who constructed the story were not impartial. Perhaps Bill Binny wasn't either, but then, his story doesn't rest on locking folks up and throwing away the key. Nor does it rely on denying US government workers a look at the evidence.
It was pretty obvious what was going on.
Of course Stone knew that Wikileaks was dropping stuff against Hillary, he was being tipped.
Assange even told folks that Russia was not the source. All the spooks here ever needed to do to get the full truth, is go on over to Britain and interview him while he clings to life, before he dies, not like he is going anywhere . . . but they don't give a damn about the truth. They already know it. They aren't in the business of truth.
They are in the business of manufacturing reality and outrage.