In the past Stone has been paid to do dirty tricks for Karl Rove and other GOPe and democrat candidates. His nickname is "The Dirty Trickster."
The old Alinsky tactic comes into play once again - Accuse your opponent what you are already doing, whether or not your opponent is actually doing it, so that your opponent gets the media hit and when it is found out that you are really the one doing it you are off scot-free because everyone blames your opponent.
So we are basically attached to an inclined plane wrapped helically around an axis. Lovely.
Stone is sleaze personified. There is nothing in the least bit honorable about the guy. I was just reading this old article this morning: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/02/the-dirty-trickster
From the article: “Stone moved to Washington to attend George Washington University, but he became so engrossed in Republican politics that he never graduated. He was just nineteen when he played a bit part in the Watergate scandals. He adopted the pseudonym Jason Rainier and made contributions in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance to the campaign of Pete McCloskey, who was challenging Nixon for the Republican nomination in 1972. Stone then sent a receipt to the Manchester Union Leader, to prove that Nixons adversary was a left-wing stooge. Stone hired another Republican operative, who was given the pseudonym Sedan Chair II, to infiltrate the McGovern campaign. “