Posted on 07/09/2019 4:27:03 PM PDT by springwater13
That was a good movie (and, another Kevin Spacey connection).
From the linked article:
“Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta.
Thanks so much for the explanation . . . It makes perfect sense.
You know this how?
wonder if justice roberts is on film
What cleaver way to gain leverage over a politician.. Young, illicit sex... How can a stinking, immoral lawyer refuse.. Yummy.. :(
Well if you are being blackmailed, you can’t really explain why you are paying millions of dollars to some guy who shows up out of nowhere, and the guy who shows up out of nowhere can’t explain why he’s suddenly being paid huge sums.
So instead of paying him hush money you give him money to manage for you, and then he takes his management fee typical for hedge funds.
He figures this scheme out and then learns who the marks are
GUESS where he got the List Of Marks..?
From Les Wexner, his old mentor from Victoria Secret, The Limited, Guess Jeans, etc. the older guy who sheparded Epstein into the darker reaches of their shared hobby.
Wexner is much older, had longstanding contacts in the billionaire community and in the smaller clutch of wealthy people with purient interests not easily satisfied:
Hair-twirling, giggly p*ssy wearing braces and bobby socks, selling girl scout cookies in front of the grocery store. Or, more darkly, Cub Scout boy butt p*ssy.
Wexner had years to casually learn who was like him, and in order to monetize his knowledge, turned that data over to his younger ambitious friend. Wexner already had a client list in his head, he simply had to hand it over to his friend.
Maybe he even got a cut of the action..? Plus, foreign goverments would also be interested, if they needed sudden favors for intel ops pronto, no questions asked.
Epstein's "genius investing talent" is simply his management of a deeply average investment fund populated by deep-pocketed people who permitted themselves to be ensnared in his trap.
-PJ
Belonged to intelligence? Sure, that sounds legit.
Which intelligence agency decided children should be continully trafficked and for intelligence sake.
Years ago it was in a good book I read, really amazing.
Don’t have a title for you, sorry; book was at least 20 years old.
The Daily Mail also wrote a story about it, though much more briefly, the tale of a Hollywood screen writer who had taken up that book’s topic. He was going to make his Director debut in a movie about the actual goals of our invasion of Panama.
No longer listed at Daily Mail, the original article is mirrored at this much sketchier web site with really bad graphic lay-out:
What happened to this screen writer is....utterly bizarre and a fairly gristly. If his fate was a movie promo stunt..?
Then it is the highest stakes stunt I’ve heard of.
The implication isn’t that he is an intelligence asset, but instead that he is a blackmailer of/friend of/bribe payer to wealthy and powerful people, who used their vast resources to protect him. So when he got popped, the pressure came down from on high to cut him a sweetheart deal. They just needed to give the prosecutor a reason to not look too deeply into it. National security would do. “Above his pay grade” as the article said.
For the record, consider:
1) The case against him was sealed, and only broke thanks to a leak to the Miami daily which ran a series
2) The evidence against him was sealed, and took years of lawsuits at the appeals level to unseal them
3) He got a 13 month “sentence” in which he got to spend 6 of every 7 days at home, working his empire
4) Anthony Weiner got 21 months prison for sending a picture of little anthony in underwear to a minor. This guy’s crimes were much more serious and expansive but it was all washed away in an incredibly lenient plea deal.
There was a film with a similar plot out of the UK. Not about invading a country but some bank robbers got a safety deposit box that contained material that was being used to blackmail the royal family - suddenly everybody was out to find the bank robbers from the blackmailer to the royals to the British intel.
Is it possible that Epstein caught some non-Americans in his lair that might be of more than passing interest to our intel community? Granted that it wasn't his main purpose, but could he have possibly traded some videos in exchange for leniency on his otherwise inexplicable deal?
-PJ
A deal that has Acosta holding the bag, and now allows the Democrats the opportunity to turn this into a "Trump Scandal" if Acosta steps down, and a "Trump Scandal" if Acosta does not?
The MSM will eagerly pivot the narrative to what did Trump know about Acosta and what is Trump protecting, instead of what did Epstein do and how many Democrats were involved?
-PJ
Who is behind this website?
If you’re asking who is implicated... don’t know. The cast of characters could be quite large and supposedly when all the documents (2000 pages or so?) are finally released we should have more details and names. But for starters, wasn’t Muller in charge of FBI at the time? Why didn’t they raid his house and get the pictures that they have only now seized? Wasn’t Eric Holder the AG at the time? The convict was quite close with the former President, husband of the then current Sec of State and presumptive future POTUS, and claims to have been a co-founder of the Clinton Foundation which also has ties to that NXVM sex cult and has been accused of being a pay to play money laundering operation.
Which takes this whole episode to the next level, e.g., is this current round of arrests and prosecution part of Trump’s political payback?
Schumer was compromised.... seven ways to sunday probably
Of course it is possible he ensnared some foreigners, and sure why wouldn’t he trade that info - not just for leniency upon his arrest but for advantage the entire time. Imagine the kind of high extortion you could pull off if you are in a very high office dealing with foreign governments and you have a very convenient Foundation in which to collect foreign contributions.
Ah yes, Acosta was left holding the bag. And a little inconvenient for Trump no doubt. But Acosta was expendable to them, and is to Trump too. I highly doubt this was exposed purely to get Trump even though there is a concerted effort to try to smear Trump with it (e.g. the Blue Checked Twitterbots and the Wikipedia entry being expunged of all reference to Democrats associated with the convict).
But the blowback from this portends to be massive and I would think nobody really benefits from reopening this case, except Trump. So if this is a conspiracy, it may very well be a rope-a-dope by Trump’s allies.
Also consider this twist:
1) Alan Dershowitz defended the scumbag in the original case
2) Dershowitz ended up being accused
3) In the effort to clear his name he joined in the effort to unseal the records
4) And of course, Dershowitz has been a Trump defender against the conspiracy hoax to take him down.
Perhaps just a coincidence...
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