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Thomas Massie is saying what the majority of us already know but few in Washington will admit. He argues that Israel wants to control what can and cannot be revealed in the Epstein files because both Israeli intelligence and the CIA have uncomfortable ties that full transparency would expose.
The American people aren’t naïve. We’ve known for a long time that something deeper was happening behind the scenes. And instead of doing the right thing and releasing the full truth, these intelligence agencies seem more focused on attacking the individuals calling for accountability. Massie says he and Marjorie Taylor Greene are being flooded with bots and paid operatives simply for opposing Israel’s war in Gaza and rejecting more foreign and military aid.
On July 31, 2019, just eleven days before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell, his connection to the Rothschild banking dynasty became the subject of major public controversy.
Anonymous sources informed Bloomberg of a 2015 visit to Epstein’s New York mansion by baroness Ariane de Rothschild, the CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Group, a storied private bank and one of the largest Swiss financial institutions by assets under management. The bank’s spokesperson denied any relationship to the notorious American sex trafficker. Epstein was found dead on August 10, 2019.
Four years later, after Epstein’s meeting calendars were leaked to the Wall Street Journal, the bank finally admitted that de Rothschild had met with Epstein as part of her “normal duties at the bank between 2013 and 2019.” Epstein provided introductions to U.S. finance leaders and law firms and provided tax and risk consulting, the bank disclosed, while also helping de Rothschild personally on “a couple of occasions” with advice on estate management.
Mr. Trump had a rough week working through his “divorce” from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Both of them behaved rather badly; he the usual name-calling; she playing up to the cluster-B ignoramouses on The View, and then resigning from Congress in a snit (walking away from Daddy). The Epstein Files legislation she was twanging on the president about got passed in a flash and signed, but it contained rules that can easily be used to keep key documents suppressed. The suspicion will linger that it’s all about protecting Israel, and thereby stir-up continued animus against the Jews.

Twenty years after Jeffrey Epstein was exposed for his child sex abuse enterprise, the Justice Department this week made a startling revelation. Rather than the “dozens” of victims previously alleged by the government and media, Justice now says that there were “over one thousand” victims.
Everyone is talking about Epstein again, from MAGA types furious that the Trump administration is not producing a supposed client list, to the mainstream media, which is giddily mocking just about anyone critical of the Justice Department here as conspiracy theorists.
It’s as if no one in power wants to deal with the substance of this scandal: that an industrial scale child abuse operation was taking place right under the noses of the countless household names with whom Epstein socialized. Now those same household names are ever so happy to cast the battle as a war between conspiracy nuts and the sober-minded adults, completely gliding over the obvious indictment here of the very high society of which they are a part.
What the Epstein case shows is that powerful men preying on the very young is condoned by high society, whether they’re a Republican or Democrat, an American or an Afghan warlord. And that’s why prominent people, from the government to the news media, seem to want this to go away.
As for Trump’s law enforcers and self-styled truth tellers who claim to be ending an era of politicization of the FBI and intelligence? It is entirely possible that in all the material they possess, there is no information about the johns. That’s because decades ago, they weren’t told to go after the men, or they decided not to. Either way, that’s the true cover-up, that no one was predisposed to investigate the perpetrators beyond Epstein and his staff, not in the Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden or Trump administrations.
One of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ‘s most vocal accusers urged judges on Wednesday to grant the Justice Department’s request to unseal records from their federal sex trafficking cases, saying “only transparency is likely to lead to justice.” ...
Farmer and other victims fought for the passage of the law, known as the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Signed last month by President Donald Trump, it compels the Justice Department, FBI and federal prosecutors to release by Dec. 19 the vast troves of material they’ve amassed during investigations into Epstein.
The Justice Department last week asked Manhattan federal Judges Richard M. Berman and Paul A. Engelmayer to lift secrecy orders on grand jury transcripts and other material from Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case and a wide range of records from Maxwell’s 2021 case, including search warrants, financial records and notes from interviews with victims.
“Nothing in these proceedings should stand in the way of their victory or provide a backdoor avenue to continue to cover up history’s most notorious sex-trafficking operation,” McCawley wrote in a letter to the judges.
The attorney was critical of the government for failing to prosecute anyone else in Epstein and Maxwell’s orbit.
She asked the judges to ensure that the orders they issue do not preclude the Justice Department from releasing other Epstein-related materials, adding that Farmer “is wary” that any denial could be used “as a pretext or excuse” to withhold information.
This systematic review revealed no incriminating “client list.” There was also no credible
evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not
uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties
The family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the most famous survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network and the woman whose testimony helped destroy former Prince Andrew’s public standing, is sounding the alarm after discovering that her multi-million-dollar fortune has mysteriously disappeared.
Giuffre, who endured years of abuse at the hands of Epstein’s elite circle and later secured major legal victories against Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and former Prince Andrew, reportedly amassed around $22 million in compensation and settlements.
That includes an estimated $12 million payout from the disgraced former prince, now known only as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
But according to new filings in Australia, where her estate is being processed, the money is essentially gone.
A federal judge in Florida has just granted the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to child traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The order marks a major breakthrough in public access to long-hidden records connected to the Epstein network.
Judge Rodney Smith ruled Friday that the Epstein Files Transparency Act of 2025 overrides traditional federal grand jury secrecy rules and requires the release of all unclassified Justice Department material tied to the case.
the game theory of epstein
transgression as alliance strategy
there are a number of useful salients here:
when seeking power/influence/to win the game, it pays to form alliances.
early formation of open alliances is a high risk strategy as it forces others to ally against you.
secret alliances sidestep this issue: you can coordinate to victory without generating a threat signal that causes others to coordinate against you.
transgression is a powerful means to cement a secret alliance because everyone involved
wants to keep it a secret because the transgression is problematic if discovered
will support all others in the group because of a form of “mutually assured destruction.” if anyone defects from the alliance, they get ruined. each holds a hammer above the head of each other.
such an alliance will hold together in direct proportion to how bad the consequences of being outed for the transgression are and how ruthlessly the people within the group deal with anyone who talks.
the first rule of “cabal club” is “if you talk about cabal club, we end you.”
this has profound intersection with the implications of a game theory construct called “werewolf.”
(video)
the core takeaway from werewolf is that small groups working in concert with the benefit of asymmetric information can easily run rings around larger groups. the werewolves almost always win.
as one who has played that game many times, the key to being a good werewolf is to constantly sow confusion and accusation, to set people up, make them look guilty, and then have others from your group corroborate it. this makes the villagers think they are getting independent sources of information when, in fact, they are not and are just getting spoon-fed falsity by a concerted cabal.
see now how a group bound together by some sort of transgression could be at once highly cohesive and highly effective?
there is, of course, a problem: just as in the game of werewolf, when a group acts together too many times, you start to spot them. the core process of the villager looking for lycanthropes is pattern assessment: who keeps working together with whom to wrongly accuse others or to defray suspicion?
the werewolves respond by sowing confusion. you eat the one who defended you or make random, unpredictable alliances and defenses, but this is a difficult game. real life is far easier because two paths are open to you:
1. recruit new wolves from among the villagers. (and if you have lots of filthy lucre to share, this is easy)
2. deny that there is such a thing as a werewolf. no one looks for what they do not know to look for or do not believe to be real. ...
how can a villager be sure to win at werewolf? by cheating. at night, you don’t close your eyes, you peek. now you know who all the werewolves are. you could reveal them and start picking them off, and at summercamp where nothing but bragging rights for winning was at stake, you might, but in the case of a powerful real-world cabal, if you can name them but have not, yourself, transgressed, you are now in a position of great power. you can make the wolfies dance to your tune. and they have to. you possess asymmetric ability to reveal them.
of course, doing this starts to be a transgression in its own right. the longer you let the “bad people” keep winning and being powerful so that you can wield the power and the longer you refuse to hold them to account for doing some bad thing, the more you yourself are doing a bad thing. and before too long, you too will be caught up in the mutually assured destruction and become yourself also unable to defect. your power over the wolves will fade and your risk of being called out as culpable will rise. ...
so we got our bill in congress and we’ve had dump after dump of redacted who knows what, but as the dec 19th deadline for “full release” nears, i would not hold my breath on smoking guns and big reveals.
we’ll get some damp squib and a bunch of hangdog “see, it was always kind of a nothing burger” and the squids will disappear into that ink and try to tell you that there’s no such thing as a cephalopod.
The Russian authorities are begging Trump not to publish the files of the pedophile billionaire Epstein: several top oligarchs and officials from Russia have been revealed at once. According to insiders, Moscow has intensified its pressure campaign on the US president and his inner circle in an attempt to get the White House to refuse to publish documents related to the case of the now-deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein... The Russian Federation does not want top Presidential Administration officials and major domestic billionaires to appear in the context of the case of the world's most famous pedophile... It is already known that Kirill Dmitriev, during a recent visit to the States, communicated with the US Department of Justice and the FBI in order to convince them not to publish Epstein's files or to cut out references to Russian officials and businessmen from them.
"According to insiders... The Russian authorities are begging Trump not to publish the files of the pedophile billionaire Epstein: several top oligarchs and officials from Russia have been revealed at once."
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: The Jeffrey Epstein Client List is now delayed until at least Jan. 22 after the court grants Jane Doe 107’s request for a 30-day extension claiming a "risk of physical harm in her country."
Yikes. It may never come out. Expect more of this.https://x.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1742380130486321587?s=20
Can't be Gislaine, she's in prison. Who? I'd say Kamala, but she's in DC.