Former Federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has a new item at NRO on the Roger Stone indictment. He makes an obvious but worth-repeating point about the “process crimes” Stone is charged with, which have to to an investigation into his efforts to find out what Wikileaks might have on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign. Mr. McCarthy reminds us that the backbone of the Russian election-tampering narrative is that Russian hackers got hold of DNC emails, then gave them to Wikileaks, who leaked them to the press. But if that’s so, and Trump was in fact in cahoots with Putin throughout all of this, the Trump campaign could simply have gotten the information directly from the Russians, rather then sending people like Roger Stone to try to figure out what was on offer.
To put that in simple terms: if Roger Stone did the things he is said to have done, then the Trump-Russia “collusion” story is false.
You can read Mr. McCarthy’s article here.