USA: Oliver Stone talks Snowden, cyberwarfare and DNC email leak in RT interview

SOT, Oliver Stone, 'Snowden' movie director and producer (English): "Listen, one can hope so. There is always a quality of mercy. It is not strained. But the odds are long because Mr. Obama has a very tough record on whistleblowers."
SOT, Journalist (English): "Do you think that this film will kind of spring light to that situation? Do you think that it could help the result and help him to get out?"
SOT, Oliver Stone, 'Snowden' movie director and producer (English): "Certainly it shows why he did it, his motivation and he is one of the few people who spoke up in this whole time period. There is only several, three, four or five people who spoke out about the NSA, they've all got in some degree of trouble. So this is a very secret government issue, very secret, top secret. He's has a lot of guts, a lot of guts. And one can never predict the outcome of revealing secrets but there is a lot there."
SOT, Journalist (English): "On another topic you told CNN that the DNC hack was an inside job, can you elaborate on that?"
SOT, Oliver Stone, 'Snowden' movie director and producer (English): "Listen. It's ok, it's ok. No. I didn't say it that way. I said as far as I'm concerned this cyberwarfare that is going on in the world, we're jumping to conclusions without the basis of fact. People are saying stupid things and it's easy to blame 'the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming' over and over again. I've heard it all my life by the way, so this is nothing new and it's stupid because cyberwarfare, from what I've learned from the 'Snowden' movie, takes a lot of time to figure out who did what to who, sometimes months. So no one has patience in this crazy cycle. It's easier to point to the enemy as the instigator of the leak. But consider the nature of the leak was about misbehaviour at the DNC, which four major officials resigned for that reason, so there was a serious issue in here about blocking the campaign of Bernie Sanders. The press kind of just jumps over that. But Sanders was denied the nomination in a supposedly democratic society. That's what they are sort of hinting at and that's was the investigation was about. So this is a real, real scandal and they missed the point. Some people have mentioned the possibility that it was an insider, yes, that makes sense."
'Snowden' director and producer Oliver Stone gave an exclusive interview to RT news in New York, Friday, where he spoke about his new movie about renowned US whistleblowers Edward Snowden, the 2016 Democratic National Committee (DNC) email leak as well as cyberwarfare attacks.
Answering a question on a possible pardon for Snowden by the current President Barack Obama or a future US president, Stone said that "there is always a quality of mercy. It is not strained. But the odds are long because Mr. Obama has a very tough record on whistleblowers."
He continued commenting on the 'Snowden' film: "Certainly it shows why he did it, his motivation and he is one of the few people who spoke up in this whole time period. There is only several, three, four or five people who spoke out about the NSA, they've all got in some degree of trouble."
Speaking on the 2016 DNC email leak, Stone noted that "it's easy to blame 'the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming' over and over again." He continued: "Consider the nature of the leak was about misbehaviour at the DNC, which four major officials resigned for that reason, so there was a serious issue in here about blocking the campaign of Bernie Sanders. The press kind of just jumps over that. But Sanders was denied the nomination in a supposedly democratic society."