I disagree. What brought Stone into the dock was that he was supposedly shilling for wikileaks/Assange and was a critical link in 'proving' what we now know as the Russia collusion hoax. Have any of those contentions been proven? No, it has all been process crimes that were an outgrowth of the illicit prosecution. He is responsible for his behavior once he was thrown in the briar patch, but as a private citizen caught in the gears he should be given something well under the maximum penalties. You should pay more attention to the Flynn prosecution, which is part and parcel the same FBI strategy. How can extorting a guilty plea to a process crime using the ruining of the man's finances and those of his family with bottomless budget sequential prosecution driven by a partisan agenda be considered justice? Don't we hear about this same sort of abuse being perpetrated on many other people, usually people of color with diminished resources, by prosecutors of all stripes?
It seems you can go in two directions, but not both at the same time. You can either 'glory' in the fact that even people of means such as Stone and Flynn cannot escape determined, targeted prosecution of dubious provenance, or you can be terrified of it. On path leads to Jacobins and The Terror, the other to innocent until proven guilty and the need for there to be actual crimes already alleged before being dragged into the grinder. The core concept of recognizing something as a witch hunt is - were there any witches found? Could there ever be?
