The CIA was complicit in Epstein, moreso they were active conspirators. They can absolutely do it again, and we shouldn’t assume this is the only blackmail they have either. Head should roll for compromising our own people to a foreign interest.
Is there another Epstein? I’m sure someone is trying recreate his special “Concierge” service, but it would be difficult to do that today. It took him many years, and potential clients today would be far warier.
It’s more likely those services will be decentralized, like the Fediverse. There will be multiple concierges around the world, not just one big service that handles everybody.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
CIA, Mossad, Russia, etc., they were all tied to Epstein, and many claim one or the other was operating him. I don’t think it was that simple.
I believe Epstein was more of a independent operator of an extremely high-end specialty concierge service, and he had two types of clients - those who engaged his services, and those who purchased information about those paying clients. Why get paid by one employer, when you can sell the same info to multiple parties?
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
He started as an Israeli honeypot, then tried to get involved with Russia later. There is no question as to his genesis being Israeli intelligence, with the help of the CIA, there is no way they didn’t know what was going on. The FBI was complicit too, heads should roll for this.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I understand that they all knew what he was doing, and almost certainly were paying him a retainer, but I still believe he was mostly independent, working for whomever would pay for his information, sometimes running operations he was paid to do.
I’m just saying that he doesn’t seem to have been an employee or agent of one specific nation or agency. But what do any of us really know? They have leaked out some information, but it only seems to further muddy the water in regards to his employment. They surely know exactly who he was, and what he was up to, and they are choosing to not tell us, probably because citizens would go nuts if the CIA admitted that they knew he was raping and murdering children, but covered for him.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In 2020 there were some tweets from Jenna Jameson saying that there were many Epsteins, and that he was almost an amateur in comparison to some. She was a porn star so the credibility is not the same as a Nobel Laureate, but she also has probably seen into the “underworld” more than most of us.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
That’s interesting. I’m sure there are lots of scummy pimps around the world, but I doubt many of them have the same level of connection to politicians and Oligarchs and intelligence agencies that he had.
Her characterization of him as an amateur is overstated. Now that we’ve seen some of the documentation, we know he was anything but an amateur. She may have crossed paths with some awful people, including a lot of Sociopathic pornographers with no morality at all, but I doubt any of them were at Epstein’s professional level. He seems to have been a singular character in that world.