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My default perspective on this is that he was an intelligence asset tasked with blackmailing the worlds most powerful people.
by ada1981 7y ago
My default perspective on this is that he was an intelligence asset tasked with blackmailing the worlds most powerful people.
- kurthr 7y agoBecause a well known creep with a $B doesn't already explain it? Instead we postulate an extra hundred horrible people all keeping a terrible secret... that also have terrible OpSec so they pay people off all the time. Or the "underage girls" were actually fembots designed in an underground lair by radio controlled sharks?
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- ada1981 7y agoThis perspective was reached after a discussion with a top adviser of Trump, Clinton, Obama and other world leaders.
- ada1981 7y agoIts very HN to get downvoted for sharing a perspective and how one arrived at it. Acosta said the reason he didn’t give him a harsher sentence back in 2007 was because he “belonged to intelligence”. >> 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. << https://observer.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-spy-intelligence-work/ https://observer.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-spy-intelligenc...
- ffff8888 7y agoFunny how you got downvoted even though this is correct. Nobody wants to face the possibility some of this might be true, it's too much to handle
- kurthr 7y agoWow, you literally have to go to Jared Kushner's magazine to find that out... of course there is other controversy as well, but it seems a bit self serving. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_Media
- kurthr 7y agoSo you spoke with a political elite who has a vested interest in spinning the story... that's clarifying.
- faissaloo 7y agoThis man was far too powerful to be under the thumb of an intelligence agency, they would have been his clients, not his superiors.