Private messages between President Trump’s former campaign adviser Roger Stone and an entity implicated in the Democratic National Committee hack may have been discovered by the U.S. government during the course of a broader probe targeting the Republican strategist’s personal communications, Mr. Stone alleged Wednesday.

Mr. Stone told The Washington Times on Wednesday that he believes his telephone and internet conversations were accessed by the U.S. government in accordance with a warrant issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a federal law that lets investigators eavesdrop on “agents of foreign power” and their activities.

The Smoking Gun reported first last week that Mr. Stone, 64, swapped private Twitter messages in 2016 with “Guccifer 2.0,” a persona directly involved in last year’s historic DNC hack and widely believed to be a front deployed by Russian military intelligence. Mr. Stone later provided copies of those conversations to The Times, but defended the interactions as “completely innocuous.”

Weighing in nearly a week later, Mr. Stone said in a statement Wednesday that The Smoking Gun article is “rife with information that could only be learned by surveillance of my domain and eavesdropping on my email, phone calls and texts.”

“There is additional information in the story as well as in several of the spinoff stories that could only have been acquired by surveillance of my communications — further evidence that a FISA warrant was approved to monitor my email and computerized data,” Mr. Stone told The Times, adding that “someone inside the system” must have illegally provided details of the probe to The Smoking Gun.

“Leaking or publishing such information is a felony punishable by 10 years in jail,” Mr. Stone told The Times.  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/15/roger-stone-trump-a...