FBI Documents Show Roger Stone Told Assange He Was Lobbying for Him

Recently released FBI documents show that jailed Trump ally Roger Stone told Wikileaks founder Julian Assange that he was working to help Assange’s legal problems by “address the issues at the highest level of Government.”

The documents, which include affidavits that the bureau submitted in order to obtain a search warrant for 👤Roger Stone, were released after the Associated Press brought a court case.

The new information sheds more light on Stone’s relationship with Assange. In a conversation just after the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, Stone told told Assange that he would “bring down the entire house of cards” if prosecutors went after him.

Assange is charged with a number of federal crimes, including violating the Espionage Act. In 2017, CIA Director Mike Pompeo called Wikileaks a “hostile intelligence service” and said, “It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia.”

In a Twitter direct message, Assange told Stone of his legal woes, “Between CIA and DOJ they’re doing quite a lot. On the DOJ side that’s coming most strongly from those obsessed with taking down Trump trying to squeeze us into a deal.”