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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThat Stone arrest was some serious shit.
Mueller doesn't showboat ,and if I remember right, most of the other people turned themselves in or came to Court for the indictment.
So WTF was this morning? Was Stone a serious flight risk? Something bigger?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,135 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Separate and unequal.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Arrive early and seize everything before the criminal can destroy the evidence.
edhopper
(33,663 posts)moonscape
(4,676 posts)around since he has known and said he would be indicted.
This raid was far more expected than Manafort's.
Maybe they can't help themselves but if I was Stone, my electronics would be at the bottom of the Atlantic by now.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And criminals often have the moments of stupidity.
Perhaps he thought that his wealth and connections made him untouchable.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Forensic investigations seem to have come a long way. People think that they are destroying evidence, but they aren't. The guess here is that if he did any of his criminal activity electronically, he is screwed.
They raided his New York house after they took him in it was revealed by Chris Hayes I think... they didn't want him destroying some evidence.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The man is a crook. He has always been a crook.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)is my guess.
Jarqui
(10,131 posts)- that's one thing
You see a pack of FBI agents in vests armed with AR15s or whatever converge in a dawn raid on CNN - that's no cartoon - that's some serious stuff going down.
I suspect a few more Trumpters seeing that said to themselves "ok, there's got to be something to this ..."
Sarah Sanders and Rudy cannot spin much out of that indictment - it is riddled with collusion evidence
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)29 agents in 17 cars with lights and sirens just before daylight for one of Trump's closest longest "friends".
the agents are unpaid. I hope they enjoyed the hell out of arresting Stone, and love the message they sent doing it.
Jarqui
(10,131 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)FBI (UNPAID) did a good job.
maxrandb
(15,393 posts)They didn't send a couple of choirboys to get Capone.
He's Tony Montoya without the accent. They had every right to bring the heat. I'm just sad he didn't try to put his hand in his wasteband.
akraven
(1,975 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)treated like an actual criminal.
womanofthehills
(8,808 posts)?Verified account @MalcolmNance
12h12 hours ago
Malcolm Nance Retweeted Richard W. Painter
My favorite part of Roger Stones Arrest? That the FBI used their SWAT team to support the arresting agents. You never know when a felon is going to go full felony and start a shoot out.