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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne more point re- the Epstein case:
Most informed observers believe that Epstein's operation was tolerated for as long as it was because he was amassing info that could be used to blackmail important people into doing or going along with things that they wouldn't otherwise have done or gone along with potentially treasonously.
If that's true, and there's plenty of reason to be concerned about the possibility, we need not only to prosecute the abusers but also to re-examine which decisions they may have been blackmailed into and perhaps most importantly, we need to know whether Epstein was the sole blackmailer or whether others were involved, and if so, prosecute all the blackmailers whether affiliated with our own intel agencies or anyone else.

Irish_Dem
(72,487 posts)Who have a vested interest in keeping it all buried.
sop
(15,228 posts)Response to sop (Reply #4)
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AntiFascist
(13,532 posts)about whether someone actually told him that Epstein was "intelligence" and "above his paygrade" and who it was that told him that.
snot
(11,207 posts)not to let all this get shoved under a carpet.
Irish_Dem
(72,487 posts)When Epstein was killed, it was over.
bucolic_frolic
(51,507 posts)Uncle Joe
(62,363 posts)Thanks for the thread snot
snot
(11,207 posts)it will probably continue to be used for corrupt purposes.
We cannot afford not to aggressively cut this cancer out.
no_hypocrisy
(52,349 posts)accountability with Epstein, but rather to procure that Epstein client list for his own purposes of blackmail? Roy Cohn taught him the benefits of leverage when you have solid evidence for the purposes of manipulation of others via blackmail.
mopinko
(72,789 posts)and afaik, no 1 has ever seen any of that evidence.
Allowing the dirt to remain secret (if it exists, and the way the evidence has been handled suggests it does) in ANYONE's hands means that we're trusting that person or entity not to use it I hope we're not that naive.
paulkienitz
(1,452 posts)and whether he was a lone gunman or working on behalf of some agency or agencies.
Kid Berwyn
(21,352 posts)Unravel the carpet.
Jarqui
(10,697 posts)Beyond Epstein - MeidasTouch uncovered more from 1991 beauty pageants, etc
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of constantly recruiting girls for years.
With so many young girls assaulted/abused, how are they keeping this so quiet. A few have spoken up but with that many, you'd think more would come forward over time.
Law enforcement must know so much more.
The corruption must run very wide and deep.
snot
(11,207 posts)while the most assertive of them, Virginia Giuffre, "suicided" at age 41.
One might assume that others were bought off without having gotten to the point of filing suit.
womanofthehills
(10,011 posts)Out of Jeffreys compensation fund estate. Around another 100 didnt qualify for compensation.
I bet a keep quiet clause was in there.
Bread and Circuses
(923 posts)Be Leave On
(252 posts)In this hour-long video, Chris Hedges interviews Nick Bryant, who is the journalist and author who first published Jeffrey Epsteins infamous black book in 2015 as well as Epsteins flight logs.
https://popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-report-jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-and-sexual-blackmail-networks/
snot
(11,207 posts)who have been pushed out of the MSM (e.g., Seymour Hersch, John Pilger, Aaron Mate...).
Hedges was the NYT's Middle East Bureau chief, among his many other accomplishments, but was pushed out after he criticized the 2003 invasion of Iraq in a college commencement speech.