he would have arrived just before dawn on august 4th, the day he sent the e-mail about dining with julian assange the night before. if he was on a cross country flight, the reported boarding passes show, dinner with assange would have been impossible. the daily caller also reports stone's credit card shows payments at a deli in santa monica on august 2nd plus hotel and baggage fees for august 3rd, putting him in los angeles, thousands of miles away from ecuador's embassy in london where assange has been since 2012 under asylum. meanwhile, stone publicly claimed he had a back channel to assange. someone he later named to be new york radio host randy kredigo even though he denied that in the daily beast and refused to talk about it last year.