Btw congratulations to Daily Beast for this terrific scoop four months ago.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclu...evealed-he-was-a-russian-intelligence-officer
The story was met by a certain amount of skepticism by some of Trump's defenders around here. Their
modus operendi continues to be the averted gaze.
I think the following from the story remains worth pondering:
Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone admitted being in touch with Guccifer over Twitter’s direct messaging service. And in August 2016, Stone published an article on the pro-Trump-friendly Breitbart News calling on his political opponents to “Stop Blaming Russia” for the hack. “I have some news for Hillary and Democrats—I think I’ve got the real culprit,” he wrote. “It doesn’t seem to be the Russians that hacked the DNC, but instead a hacker who goes by the name of Guccifer 2.0.”
How much did Stone and others associated with the Trump campaign including Trump himself know about the identity of the people hacking and disseminating the emails. And to what extent did they actively participate in a scheme to cover up the identities and activities of the perpetrators. And for the legal eagles out there the extent to which it is a crime to cover up or obscure the criminal activities of others while benefiting from such activities.
The last paragraph of the article is both sad and amusing.
Today the most popular counter-narrative surrounding Guccifer 2.0 concedes that the account was a fake persona but posits that it was created by the DNC to support a false-flag operation implicating Russia. In this theory, advanced in two widely cited anonymous blogs, Guccifer 2.0 was the DNC posing as Russia posing as a Romanian hacker.
We are now seeing a similar counter-narrative being pushed by some to the effect that Joseph Mifsud was working for western intelligence as part of a plot to discredit Trump.