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9 Likely Reasons the Epstein “Client List” Is Withheld
www.freerepublic.com ^ | 23 jul 25 | Xzins

Posted on 07/23/2025 9:40:47 AM PDT by xzins

9 Likely Reasons the Epstein “Client List” Is Withheld

1. No Formal List Exists

The term “client list” may be misleading. Names are likely scattered across flight logs, depositions, and evidence files, without a single official document labeled as such.

2. Avoiding Legal Risk

Releasing names could trigger defamation lawsuits, privacy claims, or legal exposure for missteps in how the investigation has been handled.

3. Victim Protection

Even with redactions, disclosing documents risks identifying survivors or retraumatizing those who testified under sensitive conditions.

4. Avoiding Exposure of Record Destruction

Acknowledging that a list once existed but was destroyed under a prior administration could lead to major public outrage and legal fallout.

5. National Security Concerns

If Epstein had ties to intelligence entities, revealing names might expose classified operations or endanger ongoing national security interests.

6. Collateral Damage

Not everyone associated with Epstein was necessarily involved in wrongdoing. Releasing names without context could unjustly damage reputations.

7. Administrative Bandwidth

Reviewing, redacting, and releasing all relevant records would require substantial resources, possibly diverting attention from current legal priorities.

8. Trump Administration Running a Counter-Op Operation

There’s speculation that elements of the Epstein case may be entangled in counter-operations by the Trump administration, possibly aimed at surveilling, flipping, or exposing adversaries — further complicating transparency.

9. Disinformation Bombs Planted to Damage the Trump Administration

Some believe that hostile actors may have embedded false or misleading content in sealed records — “disinformation bombs” — intended to discredit Trump allies or the administration if those files were ever released. The presence of such material would make any disclosure legally and politically hazardous, requiring intense scrutiny before public release.


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To: xzins
I go back to my own take....Why didn't Obama and Biden release "everything". Who ordered the FBI files to be hidden away...until a whistleblower showed up.

We don't know if any of the documentation has been edited or destroyed.

Check the fonts!!

41 posted on 07/23/2025 10:53:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

And OJ Simpson was framed, right???????????????


42 posted on 07/23/2025 10:55:54 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Sacajaweau

Well you just ended that as soon as you started it. It is impossible to debate someone who believes anything government tells them is credible.


43 posted on 07/23/2025 11:01:32 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: RummyChick
Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber A CIA Name Trace can be turned around in 2 weeks. In 2 weeks time, Attorney General Pam Bondi should be able to stand before the American public and tell us the results of what's inside for Jeffrey Epstein.

I heard Benz say that, and I'm trying to remember his full context on the subject.

I believe he wasn't too hopeful of finding anything that was a smoking gun.

Remember, if one can easily do a CIA Name Trace on their records so too could the Deep State actors, who could then delete the records.

44 posted on 07/23/2025 11:03:45 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Pollard; P-Marlowe

They might have had access to some of it, but I’m thinking a smart man would have countless copies on flashdrives in safe deposit boxes around the world.


45 posted on 07/23/2025 11:05:49 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: uranium penguin

“Sure Epstein went away. But, what if a new Pimp/ Madam immediately took their place, And it is now run directly-ish by the CIA?”

Fundraiser operation for the Clinton Foundation...


46 posted on 07/23/2025 11:06:55 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: nitzy

As many ir b more dems or dem donors as reps, so i don’t see that being what’s keeping this hidden. I hope it’s a counter-op op, but the issue al l those folks are thinking is how many flash drive copies did epstein hide and who did he give passwords.


47 posted on 07/23/2025 11:10:10 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: nitzy

As many ir b more dems or dem donors as reps, so i don’t see that being what’s keeping this hidden. I hope it’s a counter-op op, but the issue al l those folks are thinking is how many flash drive copies did epstein hide and who did he give passwords.


48 posted on 07/23/2025 11:10:14 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: albie

“Obama and Biden both withheld the files, if any. There’s no dirt on Trump in there or they would’ve used it.”

They might not have found it prior to November 2016.

Also, there might be information on someone near & dear to now President Trump.

Trump is going to be far tougher to ‘handle’ in his second term.

Epstein & Maxwell might not be the only possible blackmail-minded persons.


49 posted on 07/23/2025 11:14:44 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Sacajaweau

Where’s buckwheat


50 posted on 07/23/2025 11:14:47 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: xzins

10...Protect Israel and the CIA/Mossad.

11...Protect rich guys like Bill Gates, politicians like George Mitchell and Bill Richardson, Mark Carney, Bill Clinton, actors like Tom Hanks etc.

Just this morning on FR someone posted a story about a similar operation in Alabama. But because it was three goobers in a trailer parks, we instantly got their names and all the sordid details.
We got the same about P-Diddy.
We got all the details about the OneTaste Nexflix arrests and cases.

But Epstein... this is very rich people, very connected people, and very powerful people, and CIA and most of all.... Mossad.

That is the only “why” it is being covered up.


51 posted on 07/23/2025 11:17:38 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: xzins

“copies on flash drives in safe deposit boxes around the world”

Put a flash drive in a short piece of PVC pipe with the ends capped.

Could be anywhere in the world public transit can go, and no annual box fees need be paid.


52 posted on 07/23/2025 11:18:35 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Exactly.


53 posted on 07/23/2025 11:20:45 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: Openurmind

” Most of congress and the Federal system is on it.”

There’s no possible way I’m ever going to believe that bunch of butt wipes could keep a secret like that.


54 posted on 07/23/2025 11:20:46 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: EandH Dad

Lol. You’re probably right!


55 posted on 07/23/2025 11:22:07 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: xzins

I bet Ms Maxwell knows where some evidence is.


56 posted on 07/23/2025 11:23:49 AM PDT by Pollard (Sick of the weather? Wait a minute.)
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To: Pollard

Totally agree. Probably what’s keeping her alive... a release on death agreement with an assange clone or an absolute unknown


57 posted on 07/23/2025 11:26:43 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: xzins

They’ve had almost a decade to play with these records. I suggest four and six are most likely. Justice delayed is Justice denied


58 posted on 07/23/2025 11:26:59 AM PDT by Mr. K (no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: xzins

Bondi might have had a bunch of files on her desk.

Bondi might merely have looked at the pictures of the girls and not read case details.

The only prosecutable person might be Maxwell, and she’s locked up for 20 years or so already.

There’s also the prince defense - my client thought she was over the age of 18. Epstein was a smart guy and my client simply assumed Epstein checked the age of the female.

And there’s a possible entrapment defense.


59 posted on 07/23/2025 11:27:13 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: uranium penguin

I don’t believe Epstein is dead


60 posted on 07/23/2025 11:28:22 AM PDT by Mr. K (no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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