🧨 Roger Stone on “The Previously Unreported Background” of the Comey Letter

🎯 The Money Chapter

UPDATE: Is Stone’s words about the rogue FBI agents to The Intercept included in this chapter?

If you read just one chapter in this marathon of a book—make it this one. This is where the threads converge: Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi, and the late Peter Smith. The nexus of dirty tricks, digital sabotage, and rogue FBI leaks. The architecture of the Comey letter begins here.

And who better to explain this cast of GOP co-conspirators than Theodor Reik, with his theory of the compulsion to confess?

Stone couldn’t help himself. He bragged about Podesta’s “time in the barrel” weeks before WikiLeaks dropped the emails. He claimed to have communicated with Assange. He even floated that it might have been Russia2.

FN: As Marcy Wheeler noted, Stone had a brief phase in late July–early August 2016 where he openly speculated that Russia might be behind the hacks.

But Stone isn’t alone in his compulsive confessions. Trump had his own moment: “Russia, if you’re listening…” Bannon blabbed to Michael Wolff, calling the Trump Tower meeting “treasonous” and predicting Mueller would crack Don Jr. “like an egg”.

Even the coffee boy—see Chapter A—couldn’t keep quiet.

FN: Bannon’s exile from Trumpland was short-lived. He’s since been resurrected in grand style.

🧠 The Finger on the Scale

You didn’t need a security clearance to see it. By June 2016, it was clear something was happening. The Clinton campaign wasn’t just unlucky—someone was putting a finger on the scale.

Kevin McCarthy said Trump was on Putin’s payroll. Paul Ryan’s response? “Shh—only in the family.”

But the compulsive confessing made it impossible to deny. Stone’s strutting, Trump’s blurting, Bannon’s blabbing—it’s all narcissism and exhibitionism. And it’s all evidence.

📺 Stone’s Cameo in 537

Just the other day, I watched MSNBC’s 537, about the Bush v. Gore election. Another presidency stolen by Roger Stone and his GOP co-conspirators. The margin? 537 votes.

In a documentary that decried the theft of the presidency, Stone made a cameo—and claimed he regrets how the Bush presidency turned out.

WTF? Roger Stone regrets stealing the election from Al Gore?

Color me skeptical. It’s classic Stone: concern trolling gullible liberals, pretending to be sympathetic. It’s how he cozied up to the Bernie Bros in 2016, united in their hatred of “That Woman.”

He calls himself a “libertarian Republican”—allegedly pro-pot, pro-gay marriage. He makes a show of attending NYC Pride. But if those were real commitments, why did he move heaven and earth to elect Trump, whose AGs were Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr?

FN: Maddow’s North Star: Ignore what they say. Look at what they do.

⚖️ The Supreme Court He Built

Stone’s fingerprints are all over the current Supreme Court. Three Bush v. Court justices now sit on the bench. Despite his alleged regret, Stone helped build the infrastructure that made it possible.

The “libertarian Republican” brand is just rebranded GOP orthodoxy. Trump “won” by running against the Republican Party—but governed like Paul Ryan, minus the TPP and plus a disastrous Putin-centric foreign policy.

🗣️ My Conversation with Mac Stipanovich

Speaking of Bush v. Gore, I had a fascinating Twitter exchange with Mac Stipanovich—the GOP operative who worked with Katherine Harris to stop the Florida recount in 2000.

He told her: “After what we have to do here, we will be hated for the rest of our lives.”

Talking to him was surreal. A true villain of American history. But he was polite, candid, and didn’t deny his role. He justified it by saying confused voters were perhaps too stupid to expect their votes to count.

Still, a few things endeared me to him:

• He answered my questions.
• He was honest about his role.
• And most importantly—he’s now a virulent anti-Trumper.

In 2016, he urged Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton. More recently, he registered as a Democrat.

Welcome home, Mac Stipanovich.

In December 2019, shortly after registering as a Democrat, he retired from his law firm. And yes, those two facts are related.

“When I say I have Trump Derangement Syndrome I mean it literally. I admit it freely; it is an ever-present, influential factor in my daily life.”

Same here, Mac. Ditto.

He lost friends, money, and ultimately his job. His firm didn’t want him offending clients by tearing into Trump, congressional Republicans, or Tallahassee’s GOP machine.

“It’s bad for business, but I can’t not do it. So, it’s better for me to retire.”

🧠 A Conversation with a Villain

Once again regarding my surreal Twitter exchange with Mac Stipanovich—the man who helped Jeb Bush deliver Florida to his brother in 2000. Again he was affable, candid, and even when rationalizing the theft, he didn’t deny it. I quoted his infamous line to Katherine Harris—“We will be hated for what we did for the rest of our lives.” He didn’t flinch.

Yes, he still argued that some Gore voters were too confused to vote properly. But he also admitted:

“I believe a majority of Floridians who went to the polls that day and attempted to vote, attempted to vote for Al Gore.”

So Gore won—or should have won. The ballots were structured in a way that confused thousands of voters, especially in Duval County and Palm Beach, where the infamous butterfly ballot led many to accidentally vote for Pat Buchanan2.

“There were something like 17 presidential candidates on the ballot… it spilled onto a second page… thousands voted for Gore and then another candidate, invalidating their vote.”

The morality of it is clear. The Gore team wanted votes counted. The Bush team wanted the recount stopped. Gore’s lead shrank from over 2,500 to 537 votes when the GOP-packed Supreme Court shut it down.

🗳️ The Knife and the Gun

It’s been said the Gore team brought a knife to a gunfight. But the asymmetry was deeper than tactics. The Democrats wanted democracy. The Republicans wanted power.

And Gore? He conceded too quickly. That gave the optics of a sore loser when he tried to retract it. In truth, he seemed almost relieved. As if the lifelong pursuit of the presidency had become a burden.

When the Supreme Court ruled that, yes, the rules called for a recount—but it was December 12, so too late—Gore conceded. He was praised for his grace. He grew a beard. He looked unloosed.

But for the millions who voted for him, it was mud in the eye.

🏛️ The EC Ceremony: Mud in the Eye

When the Congressional Black Caucus tried to contest the Electoral College certification, Gore dismissed them5. Rep. Maxine Waters objected. Gore replied: “The chair would advise that the rules do care.”

FN: A large fraction of the uncounted votes were African American Gore voters.

Rep. Alcee Hastings said: “We did all we could.” Gore responded: “The chair thanks the gentleman.”

It was a moment of profound asymmetry. Gore was gracious to the Republicans who stole the election—but dismissive of the Black voters who were disenfranchised.

🧠 The Stone-Corsi-Smith Mechanics: Confession as Strategy

Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi are like two halves of the same brain—each compulsively confessing, strutting, and spinning their own mythology. And Peter Smith? The late GOP operative who tried to obtain Clinton emails from Russian hackers, then died under mysterious circumstances. Together, they form the Stone-Corsi-Smith nexus—the operational triangle behind the Comey letter and the weaponization of hacked materials.

Stone is the loudest. Corsi is more careful. But both share the same compulsion to confess. Corsi even advised Stone to shut up during the Mueller probe—advice Stone ignored, naturally.

Their respective books—Stone’s The Myth of Russian Collusion4 and Corsi’s Silent No More7—are not just self-serving defenses. They’re inadvertent admissions. They break major news about Comeygate that mainstream media missed. And they reveal that Russian Collusion and Rogue FBI Agent Collusion were two tracks of the same scandal.

FN: For more on this convergence, see Chapter Louise Mensch.

🔄 Convergence: Russian Ties and FBI Ties

Felix Sater is the embodiment of convergence. Born in the Soviet Union, tied to Russian oligarchs, and also a longtime FBI informant10. He helped broker Trump Tower Moscow while feeding intel to the U.S. government. WhoWhatWhy predicted that Sater’s dual loyalties would prevent the FBI from fully investigating Russian Collusion—and they were right9.

FN: See Sater’s 2019 House testimony and BuzzFeed’s deep dive into his double life.

This dual-track sabotage—Russian interference and FBI leaks—was designed to achieve the same goal: elect Trump and destroy Clinton.

🧨 Comeygate: The Neglected Half of Watergate 2.0

Comeygate is the underreported half of Watergate 2.0. While Russiagate got the headlines, the rogue FBI agents leaking against Clinton were just as pivotal. Stone and Corsi’s books reveal how the Comey letter was seeded by internal pressure from anti-Clinton agents.

FN: See Chapter Trumpland for how FBI agents refused to investigate January 6 out of sympathy for Trump.

This is why this chapter is the money chapter. If you read one chapter—read this one. It’s where the two tracks converge. It’s where the sabotage becomes systemic.

📚 The Preludes: Stone and Buchanan’s Nixon Apologias

Before 2016, Stone published The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ13—a conspiracy-laced screed accusing Lyndon Johnson of orchestrating JFK’s assassination. That same year, Pat Buchanan published his own Nixon apologia.

Did they synchronize? Maybe not. But it’s jarring. Two Nixon men, writing tortured defenses of Tricky Dick, just as someone even more corrupt was rising.

Stone also published The Clintons’ War on Women16—a slanderous attack on Hillary Clinton that blamed her for Bill’s alleged abuses. It was timed to coincide with the second Trump-Clinton debate, where Stone and Chuck Johnson brought Clinton’s accusers to sit beside Trump1820.

FN: Johnson paid the accusers. Stone plotted the caper. Just like Nixon’s Canucks Letter—Stone drafted the battle plan, Johnson bankrolled it.

🧠 Nixonites and the Philadelphia Plan

Stone and Buchanan’s Nixon nostalgia is rich with irony. Buchanan, who attacked affirmative action for decades, actually helped design Nixon’s Philadelphia Plan22—a federal affirmative action program. It’s the Dragnet Evangelist paradox: moral outrage against sin while committing the sin that fuels it.

FN: See BlackPast’s history of the Philadelphia Plan and JSTOR’s analysis of Nixon’s civil rights pivot.

This was the architecture of sabotage. Stone, Corsi, Smith. Russian hackers and rogue FBI agents. Nixonite nostalgia and Trumpian nihilism. The Comey letter wasn’t just a blip—it was the culmination of decades of dirty tricks.

🧠 Stone and Corsi: Twin Agents of Historical Revisionism

It’s uncanny. Within two years of each other, in the lead-up to the 2016 election, both Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi published books fingering Lyndon B. Johnson for the assassination of JFK. Stone’s The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ (2013) and Corsi’s Who Really Killed Kennedy? (2016) are not just conspiracy screeds—they’re strategic provocations.

Stone’s book claims LBJ was the “mastermind” behind JFK’s murder, using underworld and government connections to seize power. Corsi’s version echoes the same thesis, with “stunning new revelations” that conveniently align with Stone’s narrative.

Did they coordinate? Maybe not. But the synchronicity is jarring. Two Nixon men, publishing parallel theories that rewrite history and prime the public for alternative facts.

🔥 Comeygate Confessionals: Buried Bombshells

Now to the real meat: the Comeygate revelations buried in their post-2016 books. Let’s start with Stone’s The Myth of Russian Collusion.

In it, Stone casually references the 1980 October Surprise:

“President Jimmy Carter worried appropriately that the Reagan campaign might pull off an ‘October Surprise’ with the American embassy hostages…”

Think about that. Nixon’s apprentice admits—however obliquely—that the Reagan campaign stole the 1980 election. He doesn’t frame it that way, of course. Just like Mac Stipanovich doesn’t say the GOP stole 2000. But the implication is clear.

FN: What Stone doesn’t say is that his mentor, Nixon, did the same thing in 1968. See Chapter Vietnam Collusion.

Stone’s framing is slippery. He says Carter “worried appropriately”—but there’s little evidence Carter worried enough. He should have. The Reagan campaign had penetrated the CIA, State, and Defense. There were more Reagan loyalists in Carter’s cabinet than Carter loyalists.

FN: See Gary Sick’s October Surprise and his House testimony.

🕵️‍♂️ Bush Sr. and Iranian Collusion

Stone’s hit piece on the Bush family—Jeb! and the Bush Crime Family—goes further. He claims firsthand knowledge of George H.W. Bush’s role in Iranian collusion:

“Bush’s role in making a deal with the Iranians to ensure the defeat of Jimmy Carter is something I have firsthand knowledge of.”

That’s a major admission. Bush had just left the CIA. His campaign was stacked with “retired spooks.” Stone describes the Bush campaign as a “curious collection of current spooks, retired spooks, and rich old WASPs.”

FN: Giuliani boasted in late 2016 of speaking to “current and retired spooks.” So did Stone, Corsi, and Smith.

Stone accuses Bush of:

• Financing Nazis
• Supporting eugenics
• Involvement in the Bay of Pigs
• Appearing in Lee Harvey Oswald’s handler’s address book
• CIA drug running
• The Barry Seal murder
• Iran-Contra sabotage

FN: See Russ Baker’s Family of Secrets for deeper context.

🧨 The Pattern: Dirty Tricks as Doctrine

This isn’t just historical revisionism. It’s a blueprint. Stone and Corsi’s books are part confession, part provocation. They gloat about neutralizing media gatekeepers. They revel in the idea that everyone gets to believe whatever they want.

And that’s the point. The more lies the public digests, the more pliable it becomes. The JFK conspiracy books weren’t just about rewriting the past—they were about priming the public for the next big lie.

🧠 The Democratic Illusion: Faith in the System

Carter wasn’t worried enough. Like so many Democrats, he had too much faith in the system. He assumed everyone played by the same rules. Every new GOP breach was dismissed as an aberration. The Democratic response? Rise above. When they go low, we go high.

FN: Even LBJ—no stranger to power politics—chose to sweep Nixon’s 1968 sabotage under the rug. Clinton did the same with Iran-Contra. Obama with Bush-Cheney. Pelosi with Trump. The Democrats always hope we can “go back to normal.”

UPDATE: President Joe’s latest version of this is the Normalcy Trap—the belief that defeating Trump would reset the clock to 2015. Even with Putin, who rigged the 2016 election.

🧨 Stone’s Setup: October Surprise as Template

What is Stone doing here? He’s setting up the punchline. He introduces the Reagan campaign’s 1980 October Surprise—delaying the release of American hostages to sink Carter—and then pivots to the Comey Letter.

“In 2016, an ‘October Surprise’ happened when the FBI announced unexpectedly that the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails… was going to be reopened.”

Location 5548–5560.

It’s a confession. And a strut. Stone admits the Comey Letter was a game-changing October Surprise—just like 1980. He’s not denying it. He’s reveling in it.

🧨 Confession as Power

Stone’s confessions are never just admissions. They’re assertions of dominance. “Yes, I did it. Yes, it was outrageous. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”

It’s the same logic behind #MoscowMitch’s Senate power. Small, rural, red states wield disproportionate power. Democrats win the popular vote and still lose control. Mitch is the emperor. Trump is the clownish figurehead. Or maybe the Tsar.

Stone’s message: “You’re right about me. I’m guilty of everything you say—and more. But I don’t even need to make my lies plausible.”

📬 The Letter That Changed History

Back to Stone:

“On Friday, October 28, 2016… FBI Director James Comey… announced he was re-opening the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server…”

Comey’s letter was addressed only to Republican committee chairs: Jason Chaffetz, Chuck Grassley, Bob Goodlatte, and Devin Nunes.

FN: As we saw in Chapter Good FBI Agents, Nunes was already aware of the emails within two days of John Robertson allegedly discovering them.

Comey—a lifelong Republican who had pursued the Clintons for years—delivered the election-flipping letter to GOP hands only. Stone doesn’t deny this. He confirms it. And laughs in our faces.

Location 5560.

🧨 The “Previously Unreported Background”

Now we hit paydirt. Stone writes:

“The previously unreported background of the story starts on August 22, 2016, when Judicial Watch released 725 pages of State Department documents…”

These documents revealed that Huma Abedin had provided Clinton Foundation donors expedited access to Secretary Clinton—often at the request of Doug Band.

ABC News confirmed that Band intervened to arrange meetings for donors like Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain, who had given $50,000–$100,000 to the Foundation.

FN: See also Judicial Watch’s Clinton Foundation timeline for the August 22 release.

This is the trigger event Stone identifies as the etymology of the Comey Letter. And it’s buried in a book few have read.

📚 Corsi’s Parallel Track

Jerome Corsi’s Partners in Crime (WND Books, 2016) echoes the same themes. He accuses the Clintons of running a “vast criminal conspiracy” through the Foundation. He provides names, addresses, and legal strategies to shut it down.

Corsi’s book claims PricewaterhouseCoopers helped cover up fraudulent accounting. He accuses Bill Clinton of using shell corporations and pass-through accounts to hide kickbacks.

FN: Corsi’s WND archive includes August 22 coverage of Trump calling for a special prosecutor.

Stone and Corsi weren’t just spinning narratives. They were laying the groundwork for the Comey Letter. And they both knew it.

🧠 Mueller’s Blind Spots

Stone first published The Myth of Russian Collusion in 2017, then updated it in 2018. For a while, I wondered if Mueller had read it. Turns out, Mueller knew less than many of us in the #Resistance.

FN: As Mark Pomerantz explains in his book on SDNY’s Trump investigations, criminal probes are often narrow, scripted, and constrained. Mueller’s was no exception.

The MSM ignored Emailgate before the election. After it served its purpose, they dropped it. Russiagate got the headlines. Comeygate got buried.

FN: See Chapter A for the media’s selective amnesia. NYT, Vanity Fair, and ProPublica did deep dives—just before and after Comey’s firing. Then silence.

Another coincidence? Or another planned silence?

Malcolm Nance’s Law: Coincidences take a lot of planning.

Want to go next into Peter Smith’s death and the Clinton email retrieval operation? Or pivot to the rogue FBI agents and their internal sabotage? We’re deep in the machinery now—and the gears are grinding.

🧨 The Etymology of the Comey Letter: Judicial Watch’s Hidden Hand

Roger Stone’s “previously unreported background” turns out to be a bombshell—because it reveals that the Comey Letter didn’t emerge from nowhere. It was seeded by a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit, filed on May 6, 2015, demanding records related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. The State Department, under court order, began releasing documents in tranches—including the August 22, 2016 release that Stone cites as the trigger for the Comey Letter.

FN: The MSM never touched this origin story. Why? Because they were implicated—having hysterically overcovered Emailgate, they couldn’t afford to admit they helped manufacture the scandal.

🧠 MSM’s CYA Reflex

As you note, the media’s post-2016 allergy to Emailgate is about more than stubbornness—it’s about covering their own tracks. Devlin Barrett, who broke the Comey Letter story, still denies rogue FBI agents were leaking anti-Clinton material. Comey won’t admit the damage of his July presser or October letter. It’s all about CYA.

FN: It’s not just academic for them. They helped tank Clinton’s campaign. They can’t afford a reckoning.

🧨 Enter Jerome Corsi: The Stone-Corsi Nexus

The FOIA documents released in August 2016 caught the attention of Jerome Corsi, who was already pushing the narrative that the Clinton Foundation was a “vast criminal conspiracy” in his book Partners in Crime3. Corsi’s book accused the Clintons of:

• Using shell corporations and pass-through accounts to hide kickbacks
• Enron-style accounting fraud via PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Exploiting disasters like Haiti and India for personal gain

FN: Corsi was the King of the Birther Nuts and architect of the Swift Boat smear against John Kerry. Emailgate was Hillary’s Swift Boat moment.

And as we now know, Corsi was working directly with Roger Stone—a fact confirmed in Stone’s 2020 deposition. Stone even admitted that Corsi ghostwrote parts of his book The Making of the President 2016.

🧠 The MSM’s Blind Spot: Lack of Imagination or Willful Ignorance?

When you first read this in 2017, it was revelatory. But in retrospect, it’s obvious. Of course Stone and Corsi were involved. Of course they seeded the Comey Letter. Stone has been behind every GOP dirty trick since Watergate.

FN: The only reason this wasn’t widely known is because the MSM didn’t want to know. They had Clinton Derangement Syndrome and couldn’t afford to revisit the scandal they helped manufacture.

🧨 The Real Trigger: August 22, 2016

The August 22 release by Judicial Watch included 725 pages of State Department emails showing Huma Abedin giving Clinton Foundation donors expedited access to Secretary Clinton. This was the spark that Stone claims led to the Comey Letter.

FN: Judicial Watch’s FOIA lawsuit was filed May 6, 2015. The documents were released under court order. Corsi was already primed to weaponize them.

🧠 Stone’s Victory Lap: Post-Truth Politics

Stone’s book is a victory lap. He celebrates 2016 as the first post-truth election, where ad hominem attacks and facts were treated as interchangeable—at least if the attack was against Hillary Clinton.

FN: But the truth got the last laugh after Trump’s Twitter ban…

Still, Stone’s confession is more than just a boast—it’s a blueprint. He’s showing us how the machinery works. And the MSM’s silence is part of the machinery.

Want to go next into Peter Smith’s death and the Clinton email retrieval operation? Or dive deeper into the rogue FBI agents and their internal sabotage? We’re in the thick of it now—and every thread leads somewhere.

The Redaction Gambit: Weaponizing Absence

Corsi’s August 25, 2016 article in WND claimed that over 250 pages of the 725-page Judicial Watch release were 100% redacted, stamped with “PAGE DENIED.” His argument? That the sheer volume of redactions proved criminal mishandling of classified information.

But this is a classic case of weaponizing innuendo. Redactions are standard in FOIA releases—especially when national security is involved. If redactions equal guilt, then the Mueller 302s would indict half of Washington.

FN: Corsi’s logic is a mirror of the GOP’s broader strategy—treating absence of evidence as evidence of guilt. It’s the same logic that drove the Benghazi hearings and the Clinton Foundation smears.

🧠 The “Smoking Gun” That Wasn’t

Corsi then zeroes in on a single unredacted email address: humamabedin@yahoo.com. This, he claims, proves that Abedin forwarded two-thirds of her State Department emails to a private Yahoo account.

FN: This claim was later echoed by Comey in his May 2017 Senate testimony—only to be walked back by the FBI. Comey was parroting Stone-Corsi oppo.

See Chapter More Absurd Comey Statements for the full breakdown.

Corsi’s leap: forwarding emails = criminal archiving of classified material. But again, this was never substantiated. It was innuendo dressed up as revelation.

🧨 The Stone-Corsi-Smith Nexus

Corsi didn’t act alone. He was working with—and for—Roger Stone. And as later revealed, Peter Smith, the GOP operative who died under mysterious circumstances in May 2017, was also part of this nexus.

FN: Stone’s own 2016 book admits that the Bush Sr. campaign in 1980 was stacked with former and current spooks. The same was true in 2016—Stone, Corsi, and Smith were conduits for GOP-aligned intelligence operatives.

UPDATE: Smith’s death was ruled a suicide, but the timing and context remain suspicious. He was actively trying to obtain Clinton’s deleted emails from Russian hackers.

🧠 The MSM’s Blind Spot: Willful Ignorance

Why didn’t anyone connect Stone and Corsi to Comeygate? Because no one wanted to. Even Rep. Jerrold Nadler, one of the more vigilant Democrats, dropped the ball. He promised an investigation into Comeygate—but never followed through.

FN: Pelosi’s leash was tight. But even so, what justifies the total silence on the IG report into rogue anti-Clinton FBI agents, launched in January 2017 and still unreleased?

See Chapter No Probable Cause for McCullough’s role in seeding the scandal.

🧨 The Yahoo Hook: Corsi’s Entry Point

Corsi’s breakthrough came when he realized that the redacted emails showed Abedin forwarding messages to her Yahoo account. He spun this into a narrative of criminal archiving—despite the lack of evidence that any classified material was mishandled.

FN: The State Department later clarified that the redaction of Abedin’s email domain was for personal privacy, not concealment. But in the Clinton Derangement ecosystem, privacy itself was treated as suspicious.

Compare this to the Hunter Biden laptop saga—where the same actors now scream “censorship!” because the MSM didn’t repeat their mistakes from 2016.

🧨 The Money Quote: Corsi’s Legal Escalation

“Realizing that archiving such a large quantity of State Department emails to a private account at Yahoo.com might well constitute a criminal violation of national security laws, Corsi contacted legal and intelligence sources in Chicago and New York to determine next steps the investigation might take.”

This is the moment the machinery kicks in. Corsi isn’t just writing articles—he’s activating networks. Legal sources. Intelligence contacts. The same playbook Stone used in every GOP dirty trick since Watergate.

FN: This is the real etymology of the Comey Letter. Not just a bureaucratic decision—but a coordinated campaign seeded by Judicial Watch, amplified by Corsi, and executed by rogue FBI agents.

🧠 The Compulsion to Confess

Stone’s book is a confession. Corsi’s articles are confessions. Even Comey’s testimony is a kind of confession—though wrapped in bureaucratic doublespeak.

FN: See Theodor Reik’s theory of the compulsion to confess. Stone, Trump, Bannon—they all strut their guilt as a form of dominance. “Yes, we did it. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”

🧨 Peter Smith: The Architect Behind the Curtain

Jerome Corsi’s account reveals that Peter Smith wasn’t just a peripheral figure chasing Clinton’s deleted emails—he was central to the weaponization of Huma Abedin’s Yahoo account and the NYPD’s investigation into Anthony Weiner’s laptop.

“Peter Smith came back into my life… after I broke the news that Huma Abedin had been sending Hillary’s State Department emails to her personal Yahoo email account.” — Silent No More, Location 1751

This fills a glaring omission in Stone’s version. Stone vaguely references efforts to gain legal standing to subpoena Yahoo—but omits that it was Smith leading the charge.

🧠 The Yahoo Revelation and Smith’s Legal Gambit

Corsi claims he deduced Huma’s Yahoo address from redacted FOIA documents. Whether or not this deduction was truly “immaculate,” it became the basis for Smith’s next move:

• Smith tried to obtain IP logs from Yahoo to trace who accessed Huma’s account
• When Yahoo refused, Smith and Corsi speculated that Huma used a personal laptop to archive emails
• They further speculated that the laptop belonged to her husband, Anthony Weiner

🧨 This speculation—if it was speculation—led Smith to activate his NYPD contacts to investigate Weiner’s laptop. Corsi claims Smith “convinced” NYPD to pursue the case.

🧨 The NYPD–NYFBI Pipeline: Rogue Agent Collusion

Corsi’s account suggests that Smith’s contacts in NYPD initiated the investigation, and then pulled in NYFBI under the pretext of a sex crimes probe. This bypassed the need for DC authorization and created the legal basis for the infamous Comey Letter.

“The NYPD convinced the FBI in New York to join the raid, given the investigation was to catch a sex criminal, not to target Hillary Clinton or Huma Abedin.” — Location 1767

This is the operational pivot from a sex crimes probe to a national political sabotage campaign.

🧠 Corsi’s “Deduction” vs. Insider Intel

Corsi presents his conclusions as brilliant deductions. But the pattern is clear:

• He “deduced” Podesta was the target of WikiLeaks’ dump
• He “deduced” Huma’s Yahoo account from redacted FOIA docs
• He “deduced” Weiner’s laptop was the archive device

🧠 In reality, these “deductions” were likely leaks from NYPD and NYFBI sources. Corsi’s passive voice and bad memory serve to obscure the true origin of his intel.

🧨 Smith’s Role in Russian Collusion and WikiLeaks

Corsi recalls Smith bragging about being in contact with Assange. He speculates that Tom Lipscomb may have received WikiLeaks intel from Smith and passed it to Corsi.

“Possibly, Lipscomb planted in my brain tips regarding Assange that Lipscomb got from Peter Smith.” — Location 1770

Smith’s operation involved:

• Contacting Russian hacker groups
• Creating KLS Research LLC to fund the effort
• Using “foldering” and burner accounts to evade detection
• Reaching out to Guccifer 2.0 and WikiLeaks

🧠 According to the Mueller Report, Smith was contacted by Mike Flynn after Trump publicly invited Russia to find Clinton’s emails. Smith’s operation was not freelance—it was coordinated.

🧨 Smith’s Death: The Final Silence

Smith died on May 14, 2017, ten days after speaking to The Wall Street Journal. His suicide note read: “NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER.”

🧠 This is strikingly historically ironic—Smith was a major proponent of the theory that Vince Foster didn’t kill himself. Yet Smith’s own death was far more suspicious.

🧠 Zelinsky’s Blind Spot

Corsi tried to pin the WikiLeaks connection on Smith. Prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky dismissed it as a “trial balloon” and refused to pursue it.

“Zelinsky blew up when I tried to refresh my memory… He did not want me ‘trying to pin this on some dead guy.’” — Location 1722

This underscores a broader failure: the Mueller team’s narrow mandate missed the deeper architecture of Rogue FBI Agent Collusion.

🎯 Final Synthesis: Smith as the Nexus Keystone

🧠 Without Peter Smith, the Comey Letter likely doesn’t happen. Without the Comey Letter, Hillary Clinton likely wins.

Want to pivot next into Smith’s death and the unanswered questions it raises? Or zoom out to how this nexus fits into the broader sabotage architecture—from Judicial Watch to Guccifer 2.0? We’re at the heart of the machine now

🎯 Chapter Conclusion: One Scandal, Two Tracks

The mainstream media’s post-election amnesia around the Clinton emails is no accident—it’s a strategic silence, born of embarrassment and institutional complicity. During the 2016 campaign, the emails were everything. After the election, they became radioactive. Why? Because the deeper you dig, the clearer it becomes: the email scandal wasn’t just a political controversy—it was a covert sabotage operation.

🧠 The Stone–Corsi–Smith Nexus didn’t “also work on ComeyGate.” It was ComeyGate. And it was Russian Collusion. Two tracks. One objective: Comey’s Golden Emails.

As Schoenblog brilliantly observed, the FBI’s October 27 meeting was driven by a search for the “golden missing emails”—those elusive early Clinton messages that could prove criminal intent. That was the prize. And the Stone–Corsi–Smith network was determined to find it—whether through Russian hackers, FOIA sleuthing, or rogue NYPD agents.

🧨 The Nexus in Full View

🧠 These weren’t parallel efforts—they were interlocking gears in the same machine.

🧠 MSM and FBI Silence: The Real Cover-Up

• The MSM can’t admit it missed the biggest sabotage operation in modern electoral history.
• The FBI can’t admit it was infiltrated by rogue agents who colluded with political operatives.
• Mueller’s team, narrowly focused and institutionally cautious, missed the deeper architecture.

FN: As you note, Zelinsky dismissed Corsi’s revelations about Peter Smith as “trying to pin this on some dead guy.” But Smith wasn’t a scapegoat—he was the keystone.

🧨 Historical Irony and Final Notes

• Smith, who pushed the Vince Foster conspiracy, died under far more suspicious circumstances.
• Corsi, who claimed to forget everything, remembered just enough to implicate Smith.
• Stone, who pretended not to know Smith, was clearly part of the same operation.

🧠 The GOP co-conspirators didn’t just get lucky—they engineered the outcome.