I've gone through it again, and the Vox piece. I still find McCarthy quite convincing, he seems to address your complaints. He answers the question on how Stone came to know what Wikileaks was doing quite convincingly IMO - most obviously, Wikileaks had very publicly announced it earlier, something which Thomas Massie pointed out to Michael Cohen at the recent hearing. And he addresses Ted Malloch's alleged role - for which there doesn't seem to be any actual evidence. The most damning piece of information in the Vox piece is that Corsi deleted all his emails, suggesting he was trying to hide something. But McCarthy shows that Corsi was completely wrong about the nature of the Wikileaks dump, which suggests he hadn't a clue what was coming. Of course there may be further damning information on this yet to be revealed, one way or another, but as things stand Mueller has decided not to indict either Stone or Corsi for collusion/conspiracy, and you seem to agree with him (and McCarthy) that there are in fact no charges along those lines worth bringing.
let me break this down as easily as I can.
"He answers the question on how Stone came to know what Wikileaks was doing quite convincingly IMO - most obviously, Wikileaks had very publicly announced it earlier"
The only thing wiki leaks (Assange) announced was they had the HILLARY CLINTON emails This was in early June and this was pertaining to the emails about her as Secretary of State. Nothing to do with the podesta emails and the DNC hack. All this did was make Stone want to get in contact with assange and start to work together with him. There was nothing in public view that let us know that Stone knew about the october dump of emails.
You know what Corsi told People how he knew about the email dump coming? Not through public statements, not from some fox reportter. According to Corsi when by mueller prosecutors he said he’d figured it out through “divine intervention”
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. Is that mentioned in Mccarthy's Article?
From Corsi's own mouth
They didn’t believe it,” Corsi said, describing the reaction of Mueller’s team when he told them that he just somehow figured out what WikiLeaks was up to. “Jeannie Rhee, one of the prosecutors, said, ‘Dr. Corsi, you are asking us to believe that on an extended international flight with your wife for an anniversary you had divine intervention, and God inspired your mind and told you Assange has Podesta’s emails and they’re gonna be dumped in October and they’re going to be dumped in a serial fashion?’ Is that what you’re saying? I said, ‘Well I guess, Ms. Rhee, that’s about what I’m saying.’”
That was his explanation.
The only thing that the article tries to explain away is wikileaks earlier dumps it doesnt explain the how Corsi knew about the dump , how he knew what was in the dump and how he knew when and in what manner it was going to be dumped. And of course in spectacular fashion Roger Stone On Aug. 21, 2016, tweets "It will soon [be John] Podesta's time in the barrel," Then in September he says "Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks people [are ready] to drop a payload of new documents on a weekly basis fairly soon.
The article makes of course no mention of these "predictions" by Corsi and Stone. None of this was in the public domain. There are emails that show that after Assange had a press conference but doesn’t release any emails, Steve Bannon then emails Stone and asks what happened, and Stone replies that WikiLeaks will release “a load every week going forward”.
Mueller has charged Stone with lying about all of this. Per
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ctment-what-is-roger-stone-charged-with-doing
The special counsel's charges involve Stone's House testimony about WikiLeaks and its release of hacked material from the Democratic National Committee and, later, from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta during the 2016 campaign. The indictment does not say Stone communicated with Wikileaks head Julian Assange. Rather, it says Stone lied about his attempts to learn Assange's intentions through two intermediaries: journalist Jerome Corsi and radio host Randy Credico.
So Mueller is just a story teller now? You have to have proof to charge someone of making a false statement. Mueller is batting 1.000 in court and there is no reason he would bring such charges to Stone if he didnt have the ultimate underlying evidence to prove why he has made this assertion. No US attourney would do it without a high probabilty of success. Mueller only does it when its bullet proof.
EDIT:
Here is a reason why i say republicans are dasterdly. The article says
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Reportedly, Mueller’s prosecutors were as frustrated as they were incredulous over Corsi’s unlikely claim. But they don’t have a better explanation. In the negotiations over a plea offer (on a charge of lying to investigators), which Corsi has resisted, Mueller’s prosecutors drafted an agreed-upon “
Statement of the Offense.” In it, Corsi was to admit that “his representations to [Stone], beginning in August 2016, that he had a way of obtaining confidential information from [WikiLeaks] were false.”
This is a straight out lie. Corsi wasnt asked to admit that . Document seen here
http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/today/z_creative/MUELLERDraftStatementofOffenseCorsi11142018.pdf
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CORSI made numerous claims during these interviews, including 5 that his representations to Person 1, beginning in August 2016, that he had a way of obtaining confidential information from Organization 1, were false.
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Corsi was the one who initially said they were false and then he was to sign the plee agreement agreeing that all of that was a total fabrication. The writer says that Corsi was to admit his "representations to [Stone], beginning in August 2016, that he had a way of obtaining confidential information from [WikiLeaks] were false.”
What garbage. An entire falsehood. Dont ever read from that man again.