"I'm going to skim it. He talks about how both interpretations of his life were almost totally wrong. The initial story was that Epstein was a blackmailer, probably even saw it luring elites into sexually compromising situations and then controlling them with proof of their crimes.

A counter-narrative then emerged painting him as a perverted vaguely harmless party guy who was guilty of some statutory crimes or maybe a pedophile, but certainly not a spire intelligence asset of any significance. Simple logic as well as cursory familiarity with the blackmail will tell you the initial story is false. The issue with blackmailing hostile assets is that they hate you and tell their friends.

It's virtually impossible for the same blackmailer to work their way through an entire political circle because people realize what's going on and shut them out. The facts of Epstein's life on the other hand tell us that the second story is equally false. Epstein has a long history of working with both US and foreign intelligence." (1/2)

(2/2)

"... He was, to give one example, the main money launderer for Adnan Khashoggi's work for the CIA on Iran-Contra. As far as I can tell, Epstein functioned as a middleman, a money launderer and deal maker who connected intelligence, finance and the Israeli mob, business leaders and so on so that various governments did not have to get formally involved in certain crimes. Having sex parties, women around, maybe many teens would certainly help in making and maintaining these connections.

The reason for the cover-up then is obvious. Tons of rich and powerful people, foreign governments and so on would be implicated if the CIA, not the FBI, files on Epstein were released. Maybe there would be some sexually embarrassing stuff, but far more likely is a variety of financial crimes would be exposed, threatening both the personal wealth of rich insiders as well as illicit money networks, intel agencies used to finance their black ops.

It's... I agree with that take more or less. That's probably the correct one.

Yeah, it's not like in a... It's not a blackmail factory. It is a conspiracy in the traditional sense.”

From transcript of latest Red Scare podcast. Most based & reasonabru summaru I've heard on this shit, point blank period.

Does /pol/ agree?