Sinister "contact" between former Trump aide Roger Stone and the hacker known as "Guccifer 2.0" has unleashed the paranoid conspiracy mongers in the media, conflating what a more neutral observer might label "innocent" chatter with "proof" that Stone knew of the hacking before it happened. There's only one problem with that; the Twitter conversation took place after the DNC hack occurred. The Hill: Stone insisted to The Washington Times that the conversations were "completely innocuous." “It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it,” Stone told The Times of a private Twitter conversation he had with a hacker known as Guccifer 2.0. Guccifer 2.0 is believed by the U.S. intelligence community to be a cover identity for Russian intelligence operatives. The intelligence community concluded that Moscow sought to interfere in last year's election to help Trump win. Stone...(Read Full Post)