{"id":2140885,"date":"2024-01-04T20:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T01:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-epstein-files-are-released-but-the-cover-up-continues\/"},"modified":"2024-01-04T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T01:18:47","slug":"the-epstein-files-are-released-but-the-cover-up-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-epstein-files-are-released-but-the-cover-up-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein Files Revealed, Yet Cover-Up Persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-epstein-files-are-released-but-the-cover-up-continues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2140885&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Unveiling the Dark Secrets \u2062of Jeffrey Epstein: The Truth Still Concealed<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Normally, the confirmation process to anoint a new Secretary of Labor isn\u2019t especially interesting.\u2062 We certainly don\u2019t learn anything new or scandalous most of\u200b the time.\u200c But \u200din 2017, the confirmation process of Alexander Acosta was a very notable exception. At\u2064 the time, the \u200dTrump administration was vetting Acosta, and they asked \u200bhim whether anything in \u2062his past might pose a problem during his confirmation hearings.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acosta&#8217;s \u2064Shocking\u2062 Revelation<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s when \u200dAcosta <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-played-out-for-years-in-plain-sight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Trump officials about his\u2063 handling of the Jeffrey \u200dEpstein criminal case, back when he was the U.S. Attorney for \u200dthe Southern District\u200b of Florida\u200d in 2007. Acosta recounted that he had agreed\u200d to give Jeffrey Epstein\u200d the mother of all sweetheart deals. He granted immunity \u200bnot only to Epstein, \u2062but also to any potential co-conspirators, known or unknown.\u200b Acosta also hid \u2064the existence of this non-prosecution agreement from\u2063 Epstein\u2019s victims, in violation \u2064of the\u200c law. As a result\u2064 of the \u200ddeal, the federal\u2064 investigation into \u200dEpstein was shut \u2063down. Epstein ultimately pleaded guilty to a state charge of procuring\u200b a girl for prostitution under the age of 18. He was out of prison in a few months.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of that was known to the Trump\u2063 team when they interviewed Acosta. These are the kind of facts that could\u200c have\u200b killed his nomination to be Secretary of Labor. But Acosta offered an explanation for\u200c his handling \u200bof\u2064 the Epstein case. He told investigators\u2062 for the Trump administration that he had been directed by U.S. intelligence agencies to let\u200d Epstein off \u2062the hook.\u200b He was told that Epstein, \u2063\u201cbelonged to intelligence,\u201d \u2064that the matter was, \u201cabove\u2063 his pay grade,\u201d and that he needed\u200d to, \u201cleave it alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When this\u200c news broke a couple years later, following Epstein\u2019s arrest, Acosta was asked about it. \u200bHe refused \u200bto\u200d say it was false and he gave maybe the most equivocal answer \u2062he possibly could have\u200c given. This will go down in history as\u2064 maybe one of the worst \u200battempts to evade an answer that has ever occurred in a press briefing in Washington.\u200c Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s an admission, obviously.\u2063 There\u2019s no other way to\u200b interpret \u2063what Acosta was doing there. He\u2019s \u2064not a particularly good liar. That\u2062 non-denial is confirmation that \u2063yes, Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset. He was\u200c being \u2062used \u200bby the intelligence agencies, and therefore he couldn\u2019t go to prison for amassing an army of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-yes-democrats-really-do-want-to-groom-your-children\/\" title=\"Nolte: Yes, Democrats Really Do Want to Groom Your Children\">child sex slaves<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mysterious Disappearance of Evidence<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that\u2019s not all\u200b the help Epstein and his associates received. On July 6\u200d and 7\u200d of 2019, shortly after Epstein was arrested\u2062 on new sex assault\u200d charges, FBI agents <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220213053353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2021\/12\/07\/evidence-jeffrey-epsteins-safe-went-missing-fbi-raid-court-hears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">photographed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  a variety of evidence\u200d in Epstein\u2019s New\u200d York townhouse. They discovered binders with CDs and photographs lining the shelves. Inside a\u200c safe, which they\u2064 opened with\u2063 a saw, the agents found lewd photographs of children. They also\u2062 discovered even more \u200bCDs that \u2062had handwritten labels on them, with the names of two individuals \u2063on some of the \u2064labels.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s not \u200bhard to conclude that \u200dthis was probably blackmail material.\u2064 According\u2063 to the official\u200b story, agents\u2062 simply photographed all \u2062of these \u2062items, but they didn\u2019t take them, because they didn\u2019t have a search warrant. Incredibly,\u200b the agents left the \u200dproperty to get \u200ba warrant, which somehow\u2063 took four days to\u200b acquire. This by itself is ridiculous, since in a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-considers-allowing-video-of-george-floyds-2019-arrest-in-trial\/\" title=\"Judge considers allowing video of George Floyd\u2019s 2019 arrest in trial\">high-profile case<\/a> like this, \u2062judges could\u200b obviously have approved a warrant almost immediately, while agents remained on-site.\u200b But in this case, the agents left the property, and they didn\u2019t\u2063 come back until four days later. And by that point, the materials they had \u200cphotographed were all missing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supposedly one of \u200bEpstein\u2019s\u2063 lawyers later brought the property to the FBI, but of course there\u2019s no way of knowing if \u200bthe CDs are the same\u200d ones that were removed from\u2063 the safe. There\u2019s no way of knowing how much evidence\u2063 was \u2063tampered \u2064with.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1286-the-epstein-files-are-released-but-the-cover-up-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given this history, there\u200b was really no\u200c conceivable way \u200cwe\u2019re ever going to learn the truth\u200d about exactly what Jeffrey \u2062Epstein\u2063 did, and who \u2062his associates were. But in 2017, \u200dthe independent journalist Mike Cernovich did his best to\u200b get some\u200d answers anyway. He tried to force \u200bthe government\u2019s\u2062 hand. He <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Cernovich\/status\/1742768924213854519?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">filed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  an intervening motion in an existing defamation \u2063case concerning Epstein. This motion, which went all the way up to\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-supreme-court-rules-assault-weapons-ban-constitutional-in-4-3-vote\/\" title=\"Illinois Supreme Court upholds 'assault weapons' ban in close vote.\">federal \u2062appellate court<\/a> in New York, demanded that the government release information it possessed \u200cabout Epstein. And the courts ultimately \u200dagreed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But just days before documents were set to come out, coincidentally enough, Epstein \u2014 and Epstein alone \u2014 was booked on the new sex assault \u200ccharges by\u2064 the federal government. \u200dThat arrest delayed the release of the documents, pending the prosecution. \u200dOf course that prosecution never came\u2064 because Epstein\u00a0 \u2064\u201ccommitted\u200d suicide.\u201d The materials in his safe began to disappear. And outside of Ghislane Maxwell, Epstein\u2019s associates evaded scrutiny.\u2062 The legal documents containing the names of many Epstein\u200c associates, as well as transcripts of key witness depositions, remained\u200b redacted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last \u2062night, after many years of delays, we finally got a partially unredacted look at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/controligarchsbook.com\/2024\/01\/03\/epstein-docs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">some \u200dof the documents<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that Cernovich\u200c has been\u2062 seeking for the better part of a decade. More documents are expected to \u200cbe un-redacted in the coming days. This is just the first batch. \u200dBut most of\u200d the materials we\u2019re now allowed to see, as\u200b you\u2019ve probably guessed, are not particularly shocking. We all knew,\u2063 for example, \u2062that Bill Clinton had flown \u2062on Epstein\u2019s\u200b private jet, and had been photographed with some \u2063of\u2064 Epstein\u2019s victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s \u2063new is unredacted\u200b testimony from Johanna \u200cSjoberg, \u200done of Epstein\u2019s victims. She was asked, \u201cDid\u2062 Jeffrey ever talk to you about Bill Clinton?\u201d In response, Sjoberg testified \u200cthat, \u201cHe said one time \u200bthat Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s not \u200cclear whether that testimony refers to underage\u200c girls, \u2064nor is it particularly new information. Neither is the fact that, according to one witness, Michael Jackson once <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CensoredMen\/status\/1742711855296942296?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">visited<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Epstein at his home in Palm Beach. To \u200cbe sure, there are more \u2063alarming \u200baccusations in these documents,\u2064 although for \u200bthe most part, they aren\u2019t\u2064 new. There\u2019s the testimony \u2063from Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre that she was directed by Ghislaine \u2063Maxwell to have sex with Prince Andrew, for example, as well as hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There \u2062are\u2062 also renewed claims in these documents that Harvard\u200c Law professor Alan Dershowitz had sex with \u2062one of Epstein\u2019s underage victims. Again, we\u2019ve heard this before. Going down\u200c the \u2063list, the billionaire\u2062 executive chairman of\u200c Hyatt Hotels, Thomas \u200dPritzker, is also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KanekoaTheGreat\/status\/1742711108597911581?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">alleged<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in these \u200bdocuments to have\u2064 had sex with one of Epstein\u2019s victims. Pritzker, incidentally, is related\u2062 to Illinois Governor J.B.\u2063 Pritzker, as well as the Harvard board member Penny Pritzker, who\u200d played a key role\u2062 in promoting\u2062 Claudine Gay to the\u2063 Harvard presidency. Just\u2064 in case you thought this week somehow couldn\u2019t get any worse\u200d for Harvard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are some mildly interesting tidbits, \u200ball the\u2064 same. For example, the magician David Copperfield\u2019s name appears in these documents, and according to Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg,\u200d Copperfield appeared to be aware that Epstein was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maxwells-brother-ghislaine-a-scapegoat-for-epstein-she-wont-flip\/\" title=\"Maxwell's Brother: Ghislaine a 'Scapegoat' for Epstein, She Won't 'Flip'\">recruiting underage girls<\/a>. \u2064But there\u2019s no\u200d evidence Copperfield himself engaged in any illegal activity. There\u2019s also the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12924539\/Jeffery-Epstein-documents-Ghislaine-Maxwell-deny-Stephen-Hawking-participated-underage-orgy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">news<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that Epstein wrote an\u200d email explicitly denying that Stephen Hawking had \u200dever participated in an orgy at his island, which\u2064 is\u2062 a \u200bstrange email to write. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regardless, this\u200c isn\u2019t exactly groundbreaking stuff, nor does it\u2064 provide\u200b much clarity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And there are still \u2062many more questions than answers.\u2063 If you go through the\u2063 nearly-600-pages of documents that were\u200b released last night, you\u2019ll still find a\u2062 lot of \u2062very conspicuous redactions. On page 497, for\u200c example, you\u2019ll\u2062 find this question that was posed to Virginia Giuffre: \u201cGhislaine Maxwell\u2064 told you to\u200b go give a massage to [Redacted], correct?\u201d \u200bThe name of the person is hidden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the same token, on page \u2062502,\u200b you\u2019ll \u200cfind this question\u2064 to \u200cGiuffre: \u201cOther than Glenn Dubin, [Redacted], Prince Andrew, Jean Luc Brunel, Bill \u200dRichardson, another \u200cprince, the large hotel chain owner and [the late MIT professor] Marvin Minsky,\u200c is there anyone else Ghislaine Maxwell directed you\u2064 to go have sex\u2064 with?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once again, there\u2019s a name missing from the\u200b list in \u200dthat question, and for some reason we\u2019re still not\u200b allowed to know who that \u2062is. There could be good reasons for concealing the name. Maybe it\u2019s\u200c an underage victim of Epstein\u2019s. On the other\u200b hand, maybe it\u2019s someone with a lot of \u200bpower who\u2019s still under the control of the intelligence agencies.\u200c We\u200d really have no idea. \u2062Whatever the case, there are a lot more redactions\u2063 like\u2063 this. You \u200dcan\u200d download the documents and see for yourself. \u200bWhat this means is that, several years after Epstein\u2019s death, we\u2019re still left to fill in the blanks of court documents that were supposed to be made public before\u2062 Epstein died. We\u2019re not \u2064entitled to know anything more than we already \u200bknew and we\u2019re definitely not\u2062 allowed to know \u2063what exactly was on those \u2064blackmail CDs that disappeared from Epstein\u2019s safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK \u2064HERE TO GET THE DAILY\u2064 WIRE\u2064 APP<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of what appears in the documents released yesterday \u200dleaves plenty of plausible deniability for those named.\u200b None of it amounts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lawyers-pa-lawsuit-dismissal-moves-us-closer-to-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Trump Lawyers: PA Lawsuit Dismissal Moves Us Closer to Supreme Court\">actual proof<\/a> of wrongdoing. It all raises\u200d more questions than it answers. But there is very good\u200b reason to believe that there exists out \u200cthere somewhere \u2014 \u200dor\u200c did \u200dexist, at one point \u2014 actual physical direct proof that a bunch of powerful people raped children\u200d on Epstein\u2019s island,\u200b or \u200con one of his other properties. But that proof is not being released, and\u2064 nobody has ever \u2064been arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s a funny thing, isn\u2019t it? Epstein was an international pimp and pedophile, but \u2064apparently\u2062 he had no clients. That\u2019s what we\u2019re\u200c supposed to believe\u2064 anyway. But we can\u2019t believe that, because it\u2019s nonsense. Which means \u2063that the truth \u2014 the real \u200btruth, the full \u2063truth\u200c \u2014 is still being kept \u200bsecret\u2064 from us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those are secrets, as Alexander \u200cAcosta said, that are above our pay\u200d grade. And they will remain above our pay grade \u2014 at least, until the people\u200c Epstein\u200d was\u200b blackmailing\u200d step out of line. Then we \u200bmight see the\u2064 names on those CDs. \u2063Then we might\u200c learn the identity of all the people named in those binders in \u200chis New York townhouse. Otherwise, the feds will continue to stonewall Cernovich and everyone else who\u2019s been seeking the truth. That\u2019s\u2063 because, more than four years after Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s death, he still belongs to intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CIA has\u2062 a \u2063term called \u201climited hangout.\u201d This is a tactic where some small portion of the truth is made public while the most important details \u2014 the stuff that really matters\u200d \u2014 is kept hidden. Intelligence agencies do this in hopes that the \u200dstuff they\u2062 release will satisfy everyone\u2019s curiosity and they\u2019ll stop \u200casking questions.\u2062 These Epstein files appear to be exactly that. This \u200bis a limited hangout. A diversion \u200dmeant to\u2062 satisfy you without actually telling you what\u2062 you need to know. They want you to stop asking questions. \u2064Don\u2019t fall for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> Why did Alexander Acosta grant immunity to Jeffrey Epstein and hide the non-prosecution agreement from Epstein&#8217;s victims?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u2062Unveiling the\u2063 Dark Secrets \u2062of Jeffrey Epstein: \u200bThe Truth \u2064Still Concealed<\/p>\n<p>Normally, the confirmation process to anoint \u200da new Secretary of Labor isn\u2019t especially interesting.\u2062 We certainly don\u2019t\u2064 learn anything new or scandalous most of\u200b the time.\u200c But \u200din 2017, the confirmation process of Alexander Acosta was \u2064a very notable exception.\u200b At\u2064 the \u200ctime, the \u200dTrump administration \u2064was vetting Acosta, and they asked \u200bhim whether anything in \u2062his past might \u2063pose a\u200d problem during\u2064 his confirmation hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Acosta&#8217;s\u2064 \u2064Shocking\u2062 \u2064Revelation<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when\u2064 \u200dAcosta told Trump officials about his\u2063 handling of the Jeffrey \u200dEpstein criminal case,\u2062 back \u200dwhen he was the U.S. Attorney for \u200d\u200dthe Southern District\u200b of Florida\u200d in 2007.\u200b Acosta recounted that he had agreed\u200d to give Jeffrey Epstein\u200d the mother \u2063of all\u200b sweetheart deals. He granted immunity \u200bnot only to\u2063 Epstein, \u2062but also to any potential co-conspirators, known or unknown.\u200b Acosta also hid \u2064the existence of this non-prosecution agreement from\u2063 Epstein\u2019s victims,\u200b in \u2062violation \u2064of the\u200c law. \u2062As a result\u2064 of the \u200ddeal, the\u200c federal\u2064 investigation into \u200dEpstein was shut \u2064\u2063down. Epstein ultimately pleaded guilty \u2062to a state \u2062charge of procuring\u200b a girl \u200bfor prostitution under the age of 18. He was out of prison in a few months.<\/p>\n<p>All of that was known to the Trump\u2063 team when they \u200binterviewed\u2062 Acosta. These are the kind of\u200b facts that could\u200c have\u200b killed his \u2064nomination to be Secretary of Labor. But Acosta offered an explanation \u2064for\u200c his handling \u200bof\u2064\u2063 the Epstein case. He told investigators\u2062 for the Trump administration that he had been directed by U.S. intelligence agencies to let\u200d Epstein off \u2062the \u200chook.\u200b He was told that Epstein, \u2063\u201cbelonged to intelligence,\u201d\u200d \u2064that the matter was, \u201cabove\u2063 his pay grade,\u201d and that he needed\u200d to, \u201cleave it alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When this\u200c news broke \u2062a couple years later, following Epstein\u2019s \u2063arrest, Acosta\u2063 was asked about it.\u200d \u200bHe refused\u2063 \u200bto\u200d say it was false and he gave maybe the\u200b most equivocal answer \u2062he possibly could have\u200c given. \u2064This will go\u200c down in\u2063 history as\u2064 maybe one of the worst \u200battempts to\u2062 evade an answer that has ever\u200c occurred in a press briefing in Washington.\u200c Watch:<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s an admission, obviously.\u2063 There\u2019s no other way to\u200b interpret \u2063what Acosta was doing there. He\u2019s \u2064not a\u200c particularly\u200b good liar. That\u2062 non-denial is confirmation that\u2063 \u2063yes, Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset. He was\u200c being \u2062used \u200bby the intelligence agencies, and therefore he\u2062 couldn\u2019t go \u2064to prison for amassing an\u2064 army of child sex slaves.<\/p>\n<p>The Mysterious Disappearance of Evidence<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not all\u200b the help Epstein and his associates received. On July 6\u200d \u200cand 7\u200d of 2019, shortly after Epstein was arrested\u2062 on new sex assault\u200d charges, FBI agents photographed\u200d a variety of evidence\u200d in Epstein\u2019s New\u200d York \u200dtownhouse. They discovered binders with CDs \u200cand photographs lining the shelves. Inside \u200ca\u200c safe, which they\u2064 opened with\u2063 a saw, the agents found\u200c lewd photographs of children. They also\u2062 discovered even more \u200bCDs that \u2062had handwritten labels on them, with the \u2064names of\u2064 two individuals \u2063on some of the \u2064labels.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not \u200bhard to conclude \u2062that\u2064 \u200dthis \u2064was probably blackmail material.\u2064 According\u2063 to the official\u200b story, agents\u2062 simply \u200dphotographed all \u2062of these \u2062items, but they didn\u2019t take them, because they didn\u2019t have a search warrant. Incredibly,\u200b the agents left the \u200dproperty to get\u2062 \u200ba warrant, which somehow\u2063 took four days to\u200b acquire. This by itself is ridiculous, since in a\u200b high-profile case like this, \u2062judges could\u200b obviously have approved a warrant almost immediately, while agents remained on-site.\u200b But in this case, the agents left \u200dthe\u200d property, and they didn\u2019t\u2063 come back until\u2064 four \u200bdays later. And by that point, the materials they had \u200cphotographed were all missing. <\/p>\n<p>Supposedly one of \u200bEpstein\u2019s\u2063\u2063 lawyers later brought the property to the FBI, but of course there\u2019s no way of knowing \u200bif\u200c \u200bthe CDs\u2064 are the same\u200d ones that were removed from\u2063 the safe. There\u2019s no way of knowing how\u2064 much evidence\u2063 was \u2063tampered \u2064with.<\/p>\n<p>Given this history,\u2063 there\u200b was really no\u200c conceivable way \u200d\u200cwe\u2019re ever going to learn the truth\u200d about exactly what\u200d Jeffrey \u2062Epstein\u2063\u200d did, and who \u2062his associates were. But in 2017, \u200d\u200dthe \u200bindependent journalist Mike Cernovich\u2064 did his \u2062best to\u200b get some\u200d answers anyway. He tried to force \u200bthe government\u2019s\u2062 hand. He \u2064filed an intervening motion in an existing defamation \u2063case concerning Epstein. This motion, \u2062which went all the way up to\u200c federal \u2062appellate court in New York, demanded that the \u2063government release \u200binformation it possessed \u200cabout Epstein. And the courts ultimately \u200b\u200dagreed.<\/p>\n<p>But just days before documents were set to come out, coincidentally enough, Epstein \u2014 and Epstein alone \u2014 \u200dwas booked on the new\u200c sex assault \u200b\u200ccharges by\u2064 the federal government. \u200dThat arrest delayed the release of the documents, pending the prosecution. \u200dOf\u200d course that prosecution never came\u2064 because Epstein\u00a0 \u2064\u201ccommitted\u200d suicide.\u201d \u200dThe materials in his \u2063safe began to disappear. And outside of Ghislane Maxwell,\u2064 Epstein\u2019s associates evaded scrutiny.\u2062 The legal documents containing the\u200b names \u2063of many Epstein\u200c associates, as well \u200cas transcripts of key witness depositions, remained\u200b redacted.<\/p>\n<p>Last\u2064 \u2062night, after many years of delays,\u2062 we finally got a partially unredacted look \u200bat\u200d some \u200dof the documents that Cernovich\u200c\u2064 has been\u2062 seeking for the better part\u200c of a decade. \u2062More documents are \u2064expected to \u200cbe un-redacted in\u2063 the coming days. This is\u200c just the first batch. \u200dBut most of\u200d the materials we\u2019re now\u2064 allowed to see, as\u200b you\u2019ve probably guessed, \u200bare not \u200dparticularly \u2063shocking. We\u200d all knew,\u2063 for example, \u2062that Bill Clinton had flown \u2062on Epstein\u2019s\u200b private jet, and had been photographed with some \u2063of\u2064 Epstein\u2019s victims.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s \u2063new is unredacted\u200b testimony from Johanna \u200cSjoberg,\u200b \u200done of Epstein\u2019s victims. She was asked, \u201cDid\u2062 Jeffrey\u2063 ever talk to you \u2062about Bill\u2064 Clinton?\u201d In response, Sjoberg testified \u200cthat, \u201cHe said one time \u200bthat Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s\u200c not \u200cclear whether that testimony refers to underage\u200c girls, \u2064nor is it particularly new information. Neither is \u2062the fact that, according to one witness, Michael Jackson once visited Epstein at \u200chis\u2064 home \u200bin Palm Beach. To \u200cbe sure, there are more \u2063alarming \u200baccusations in these documents,\u2064 although for \u200bthe most part, they aren\u2019t\u2064 new. There\u2019s the testimony\u2064 \u2063from Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre that she\u200c was directed by Ghislaine \u2063Maxwell to have \u200dsex with Prince\u200b Andrew, for example, as well as hedge fund manager Glenn \u2062Dubin.<\/p>\n<p>There \u2062are\u2062 also renewed claims in these documents\u2063 that Harvard\u200c Law professor Alan Dershowitz had sex with \u2062\u2062one of Epstein\u2019s underage\u200d victims. Again, we\u2019ve heard this before. Going down\u200c the \u2063list, the billionaire\u2062 executive chairman of\u200c Hyatt Hotels, Thomas \u200dPritzker, is also alleged in these \u200bdocuments to\u200d have\u2064 had sex with one\u200b of Epstein\u2019s victims. Pritzker, incidentally, is related\u2062 to Illinois Governor J.B.\u2063 Pritzker, as well as the Harvard board member Penny Pritzker, who\u200d played a key \u200drole\u2062 in promoting\u2062 Claudine Gay to\u200d the\u2063\u200c Harvard presidency. \u200cJust\u2064 in case you thought this week \u2062somehow couldn\u2019t get any worse\u200d for Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>There \u2062are some mildly interesting tidbits, \u200ball the\u2064 same. For example, the magician \u2063David Copperfield\u2019s\u200d name appears in these documents, and according\u200b to \u200bEpstein \u2062accuser Johanna Sjoberg,\u200d Copperfield appeared to be aware that Epstein was recruiting underage girls. \u2064But there\u2019s no\u200d evidence Copperfield himself\u200d engaged in any illegal activity. There\u2019s also the news that Epstein wrote an\u200d email explicitly denying that\u2062 Stephen Hawking had \u200dever participated in an orgy at his island, which\u2064 is\u2062 a \u200bstrange email to write.\u2062 Regardless, this\u200c isn\u2019t exactly groundbreaking stuff, nor does it\u2064 provide\u200b much clarity.<\/p>\n<p>And there are still \u2062many more questions than \u200banswers.\u2063 If you \u200bgo through the\u2063 \u200bnearly-600-pages of documents that were\u200b released last night, you\u2019ll still find \u200ca\u2062 \u2064lot of \u2062very conspicuous redactions. 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