Longtime political operative Roger Stone on Wednesday filed a motion requesting a federal judge force special counsel Robert Mueller to prove he did not tip off CNN about his January 25 arrest.
Stone’s legal team argues CNN showed it a draft copy of the indictment, stamped without a PACER, after their client’s arrest, suggesting the document had been released prematurely. “A person with privileged access to a ‘draft’ of Roger Stone’s Indictment, identical to that which had been filed under seal … had — in violation of the Court’s Order — publicly distributed the Indictment prior to its release from the sealing ordered by the Court,” the filing reads.
Since his arrest, Stone has contended CNN was given notice of his arrest ahead of time. The filing states a CNN camera crew began camping outside Stone’s Fort Lauderdale, Flordia residence at 4:58 a.m. EST. The FBI arrested Stone at 6:06 a.m. EST, after which a CNN journalist contacted the political operative’s lawyer and texted over a “draft copy of the still sealed indictment” at 6:22 a.m. EST.
CNN denied being tipped off about the indictment, claiming that it was their reporters’ “instinct” to send a crew to Stone’s home before dawn on the morning of his arrest. “[FBI agents] walked me out in the middle of the street to make sure the CNN camera could get great footage of the whole thing. The street was sealed off, so how CNN had a camera right outside the door; that’s very hard to understand, because nobody else was allowed on the street,” Stone said of his arrest in an interview with Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow.
Stone’s going to have a hard time proving his allegation, anyone that would know about it would also be in the position of putting him or herself in jeopardy of prosecution -or a very serious lawsuit- if they admitted it.
It isn’t likely they’ll be doing that since it isn’t likely they’ll be given immunity from prosecution that would be needed to make it safe for them to do it.
But I imagine it is true about the leaking to CNN, I don’t wee any plausible explanation for the timing and the extent of the coverage otherwise.
“You can’t prove that somebody didn’t do something/
But I don’t care if the Senate found know proof that Trump colluded with Russia. he needs to prove that he didn’t”
That being an accurate recap of a leftists position aside, CNN being in possession of a document that they should not have been in possession of is a positive that can be proved.
^^^
Now that everybody is admitting that there is no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia, the resistance is saying that Trump has not proven he didn’t collude. That’s not how it works.
But I think Stone is just doing what he can to keep the Muller/CNN Jackboot shenanigans in the news using stray voltage. This way, we get fifty explanations from the NPC media about what Mueller did and why it was justified, and how you can’t prove a negative.
Stone should have Mueller prove he never was in black face.
Nothing ever happens to friends of the deep state. They got it redacted.
I doubt Stones lawyers would have done this without some way to prove it. Muellers been using unprovable facts for years and nobody has stopped him.
Glad to see he is using the same rules of proof they hold PDJT to.
Proving a negative.
Just prove the chain of custody of the draft copy.
Lying about it will get you a SWAT team at your house early in the day…
don’t know if you can prove a negative like this, but that has also become the standard of the democrat run legal system. It boils down to ‘guilty until proven innocent.’
mueller should be compelled to provide the provenance of the document itself, which up to the time of its formal filing was in his, and his committee’s, exclusive possession. It is also a document that is now evidence in a court of law. Somehow it wound up in unauthorized hands. cnn’s not providing how it came into their possession makes them eligible for obstruction of justice, and they should be a co-defendant along with mueller. They should be subpoenaed to testify under oath, and in a court of law, not before do nothing congress.
“…..their reporters’ “instinct” to send a crew….”
I wonder if I could that reporter, with “his instinct”, to suggest some winning lottery numbers?