The Big Reveals

'Transparency And Accountability'

Mar 30, 2025

It is increasingly apparent that the Western bloc is no longer monolithic. Or, more accurately, an attempt to chart a new course is being made by a new administration stateside, which is being mightily resisted by every element of the Establishment. One of the key changes being touted is a renewed commitment to transparency, not a quality in plentiful supply under previous administrations of whichever persuasion. In fact, secrecy and obfuscation have long been the touchstones of the permanent bureaucracy. 'National security', don't you know – the perfect catch-all justification which is nigh-on impervious to challenge, as one doesn't know what one doesn't know and one cannot, therefore, be expected to make a compelling case for disclosure.

One might, perhaps, argue that documentation relating to the murders of JFK, RFK and MLK should not still be suppressed as these events took place well over 50 years ago and all potential actors will have met their Maker by now. One might also reference the JFK Records Act of 1992, which (augmented by a further law passed in 1998)(1) mandated that all assassination records be made public by October 2017. This didn't happen, due to the three letter agencies' open defiance of the law of the land; but that can hardly be said to be an unusual occurrence, but rather a routine modus operandi. The New York Times tells us that there are 4,684 documents “fully or partially withheld”,(2) which is a puzzler as Trump has now said that there are around 80,000 of them.(3)

Similar tactics have been deployed with the Epstein files. If you've been following the saga, you will be aware that the DoJ has so far distinguished itself by over-promising and under-delivering in risible fashion. The resultant explanation – that the AG had been had over by a recalcitrant FBI, which simply supplied her with some material that was already in the public domain – is transparently false. At the time of Epstein's alleged demise, the FBI had raided numerous properties, seized exhibits by the truckload and was purportedly building a criminal case against Public Enemy Number One. Any genuine disclosure of the Epstein material will be measured in terabytes.

Instead of making good on promised made, Trump's proxies are indulging in poorly executed theatrics. The AG appears to believe that continually promising transparency is the same as actually following through and providing it. And, in truth, she has been handed the most toxic of chalices. There is no reason to suppose that the Deep State wants to provide full disclosure on any of the cases that Trump has referenced, which include the aforementioned killings, Epstein and the two attempted assassinations of Trump himself, so requesting the secret squirrels' assistance via an open letter (shared with the media) is very much yesterday's way of doing business. Nobody with a room temperature IQ or above expects the intelligence community (IC) to leap to attention, doff its cap and fire up the photocopiers, because the suspicion is that it was intimately involved in all of the above.

And there is another likely complication. I have previously articulated the concept of the Big Lie – when a deception is so egregious that most people would not be able to bring themselves to even consider the possibility that they had been deceived. If the IC is in any way implicated in any of these crimes, its involvement would definitely qualify as a deception of sufficient scale. However, it seems to me that it is entirely possible that a new regime, even one that is untainted and committed to truth and reconciliation, might still get cold feet when it realises just how much damage is going to be caused, particularly by any revelations about the more recent events.

If, for instance, the IC has its fingerprints all over the Epstein imbroglio or the Trump attempts and it becomes public knowledge, the effect will be apocalyptic. There will have been no time for predictive programming, no pre-emptive normalisation. Instead, the tectonic plates will shift suddenly and massively. In that scenario, the effect on the normies – as their world view crashes around them – is difficult to calculate but if, for example, Epstein is revealed to have been an 'asset' who was allowed to continue abusing minors; or the CIA is shown to have been running one or both Trump shooter(s), all Hell will break loose. On Trump's watch. And a sudden, catastrophic loss of confidence in the authorities may not be seen as favourite. The Big Lie casts a long shadow.

This would suppose that the turkeys can be persuaded to vote for Christmas which, I suspect, is possible in only one circumstance – if the IC calculates that, by engaging in a disclosure of sorts (some but not all), Trump's administration will be compelled to become co-conspirators, because the damage that would otherwise be done would genuinely (and ironically) undermine national security and constitute grounds for impeachment. Overall, it's difficult to come up with an outcome that meets expectations and, that being the case, Trump et al will find that they have sacrificed large dollops of credibility. So, in advance of what is highly likely to be another series of snow jobs, what can we establish ourselves given the available evidence? And what other secrets are being kept from us?

I have found there to be perhaps five potential areas of weakness with the overwhelming majority of official narratives; a clear motive which points to an alternative explanation; evidence that cannot be reconciled with what we are told we must believe; confirmation that the alphabet agencies have had some involvement with the players; profound incuriosity on behalf of the legacy media; and ongoing, obvious dishonesty and misdirection. The presence of any one of these factors should give pause. The presence of multiple factors is a major red flag.

Because good help is hard to find, the conspirators are frequently not cut from the finest of cloth. They do not tie off all loose ends, they deal in improbabilities and they mostly don't seem to have grasped the fact that incongruities accumulate over time and form patterns that link disparate incidents together. Without giving too much away, I have some knowledge of investigations and even the complex ones make sense. Starting from a preferred outcome and working backwards, ignoring the inconvenient and shoe-horning in the infeasible is seldom a winning strategy and leaves red flags all over the shop.

The Epstein Affair, in its incompleteness and incoherence, is an obvious cluster on every level. Virtually nothing about it makes sense. Epstein himself was a nobody to begin with, a seemingly empty vessel lacking connections and a college degree. At the age of 21, he was hired to teach at the elite Dalton School, a prep school in New York City, by none other than Donald Barr, father of William (US Attorney General under Bush the Elder and Trump, point man for the former's drug-running operation into Mena, Arkansas and overseer of Epstein's final prosecution)(4), an ex-OSS operative – the OSS being the wartime forerunner of the CIA.

Somehow or other, having 'not made the cut' at Dalton,(5) shortly thereafter he is plying his trade as an options dealer at Bear Stearns on Wall Street, likely on the back of teaching the CEO's children.(6) Four years later, in 1980, he made limited partner.(7) He does seem to have had some mathematical ability and, come 1981, he founded his own business, tracking down assets – he referred to himself as a 'bounty hunter' - and managing money for billionaires. This is the international man of mystery in 1980.

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It was around this time that he started telling friends that he was an intelligence agent.(8) He was in possession of a gun and an Austrian passport with a false name and an address in Saudi Arabia. Seemingly out of the blue, he started mixing in exalted company, with Adnan Khashoggi amongst his new friends, coincidentally at the time that the latter was a middleman in the Iran-Contra affair, transferring American weapons from Israel to Iran. Epstein was seemingly in the thick of some of this shady business, travelling between the US, Europe and Southwest Asia multiple times in the mid-eighties.(9)

He still found the time to hook up with a character called Steven Hoffenberg, CEO of Towers Financial Corporation, an enormous Ponzi scheme that went belly up in 1993, having bilked investors out of $475 million.(10) The two had worked closely together, travelling everywhere on Hoffenberg's private jet, yet when it came time to pay the piper, Epstein got out from under and Hoffenberg got twenty years.(11) How much of the purloined funds ended up in Epstein's account is unknown. By 1989, he has moved on, having transferred his affections to a bigger fish, billionaire Leslie Wexner, acquiring power-of-attorney over his finances in 1991.(12)

This connection may also have been the source of his subsequent wealth. It certainly granted him access to influence and a seat at the table of both the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, two prominent Deep State entities.(13) Or it may be that Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine, secretly bankrolled Epstein prior to his death in 1991.(14) Perhaps Epstein genuinely was an investment genius, although he appears to be some sort of malodorous Zelig, turning up at the scene of financial meltdowns.

In August 2006, he invested $57 million in a Bear Stearns fund,(15) a highly leveraged fund that had achieved the dubious distinction of a 17:1 rate by April 2007, meaning that for every dollar invested in the fund, there were $17 of borrowed funds. That month, an unnamed investor in the fund – who happened to have a stake of $57 million – discussed redeeming his investment.(16) This would have been the equivalent of removing $1 billion from a thinly-traded market and the very thought of that brought the pains on, collapsing the fund within three months, leading to the eventual collapse of the company in March 2008.

Epstein's intervention served as the trigger for the eventual implosion that was the Global Financial Crisis, the bailout for which was the largest-ever transfer of wealth from taxpayers to Wall Street.(17) Coincidentally, it came a month after the federal investigation into his activities in Palm Beach began, according to Wikipedia,(18) which further informs us that, in another instance of suggestive timing, the Miami US Attorney entered into discussions as to the plea arrangement a month after the fund failed.(19)

What we do know for sure is that influential players were extremely reluctant to see Epstein dealt with properly. The FBI had prepared a 53-page indictment, identifying 40 victims in the process, after having the case referred by local cops who were getting no joy from their own prosecutors (they were busy colluding with Epstein's lawyers) and were also having their lives turned upside down by people going through their trash and tailing them.(20) But the number of victims was in the hundreds. Those he had abused often turned facilitator. A single girl brought him 70-80 14 and 15 year olds over a two year period, but there were many others performing the same function.(21)

He could have gone to prison for life. Instead, he served thirteen months in the private wing of a Palm Beach County jail, albeit spending sixteen hours a day, six days a week on 'work release'.(22) The FBI investigation was shuttered – even though it was expanding rapidly - and Epstein only pleaded to solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution.(23) And all the potential criminal liability, including the possibility of being charged with a wider sex-trafficking conspiracy, disappeared like the darkness at dawn.

One might think that, given the fact that the specific victim was a minor (14 years old at the time)(24) and, consequently, unable to give consent, labelling her a prostitute was a little harsh and smacks of pandering – there is, after all, no such thing as a child prostitute in federal law. Especially as court documents alleged that Epstein ran a “sexual abuse ring” that lent underage girls “to prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders.”(25) The prosecutor, according to his own account, had been told to leave well alone, as Epstein had intelligence connections. Not with the FBI, one would assume, which likely leaves the CIA holding the baby once again. We are told that Epstein now became a federal informant, providing valuable information:

“There’s no direct evidence of what that information was, but records show that at around the same time, Epstein was considered to be a crucial witness during the trial of two Bear Stearns executives who faced allegations of corporate securities fraud during the 2008 financial crisis.”(26)

An explanation that doesn't pass the smell test. The criminal case was never made and Alan Dershowitz, one of Epstein's lawyers at the time, didn't know anything about it.(27) The deal itself was unlawful, as it was kept secret from Epstein's victims, thus breaching the Crime Victims' Rights Act.(28) Additionally, “any potential co-conspirators” were granted immunity.(29) The preferential treatment didn't stop there:

“At a sex offender registration hearing in 2011, a Manhattan assistant prosecutor asked a judge to go easy on Epstein by making him a Level 1 fiend, or the lowest on the scale. The assistant DA claimed Epstein shouldn’t be forced to register at Level 3, which indicates a high risk of repeat offense, because “there was only an indictment for one victim” in Florida.”(30)(31)

The judge was suitably unimpressed with a prosecutor playing defence attorney instead. Nonetheless, a clear pattern had emerged. Some part of the federal government was first amongst equals and Epstein was benefitting from its largesse. Nothing much changed after his spot of local difficulty. Epstein wandered around New York in the company of young-looking foreign women and billionaires still hung out with him (albeit on the QT). He seemed to have largely learned his lesson about abusing minors who lived close by and, according to yet another accuser, trafficked victims from other US cities and from abroad to New York and the Virgin Islands, instead.(32) One lawsuit alleges that Epstein used an international model agency (run by the infamous Jean-Luc Brunel) and flew in girls from Europe, Ecuador and Brazil.(33)

We now know of the Lolita Express, the flight logs and Pedo Island. But there was also the neighbouring island, the New York mansion, other Manhattan apartments, a ranch in New Mexico and an apartment in Paris.(34) There were also other aircraft, including two Gulfstream jets (35) and they were in near constant use. Between January 2018 and June 2019, they made a combined total of 164 flights, mostly between Palm beach, Manhattan, Paris and the US Virgin Islands.(36) Some of the other flights – Paris to Bratislava, Paris-Nice and Paris-Rabat being three such – featured turnaround times of only a few hours.(37) There didn't seem to be much in the way of restrictions for a Level Three sex-offender.

And his re-arrest and indictment in 2019 wasn't the result of some ongoing investigation, instigated with the victims in mind. As with his prosecution in 2008, accountability was arrived at via the actions of others, in this case a civil case brought by an independent journalist and the Miami Herald. Once it became clear that files from a civil lawsuit involving both Maxwell and Epstein would be unsealed – a ruling handed down on July 3^rd 2019 – the latter was arrested the next time he touched down in the US, six days later. It should be noted that these weren't files connected to any criminal cases.

Even then, the prosecutors in the SDNY (the Southern District of New York) trod lightly, a course of conduct wildly at odds with their usual approach, which was to fill their boots in customary American fashion by overcharging egregiously for maximum leverage. Not so with Teflon Jeffrey:

“Epstein was charged for comparatively low-level conduct...SNDY did the bare minimum necessary... He wasn't charged for running an international sex trafficking ring. He was charged for less than 1% of what he was responsible for...By limiting the indictment to massages in Epstein's NYC apartment, the Island, the West Palm Beach house, the New Mexico house, and the Paris property could be mopped up...SDNY, known for prosecutorial overreach, suddenly decided to do as little as possible in one of the most significant prosecutions in its history.”(38)

It was another year before they got hold of Maxwell (39) and, while she got twenty years, her prosecution was also severely circumscribed, limited to the testimony of just four victims of the New York and Florida arms of Epstein's operation.(40) There was absolutely no appetite to widen the scope of any investigation and the Feds were conspicuous by their absence. It is apparent that somebody somewhere wanted to keep a tight grip on things and get 'er done as swiftly as possible, whereupon we could all be distracted and appalled by a new shiny trinket of chaos about something else entirely. Transparency and a proper reckoning were very much not the order of the day.

So, we are left with many more questions that answers. There are some details that we think we know, especially as it relates to his activities at his private island. The gist of the narrative is that large numbers of young females – often aspiring models – were transported to Epstein's island and members of the global elite were flown in to abuse them. Epstein filmed these encounters and blackmailed the famous for financial gain. Perhaps that's where his money came from. The assumption is that that's how he got away with it for so long, too.

He may also have been a spy, possibly for more than one country. It's probably fair to say that we were a little hazy on why it was that the authorities suddenly took an interest in him again in 2019, after a decade and more of him hiding in plain sight. And it's definitely reasonable to view the circumstances of his suicide with a jaundiced eye. But, while the narrative appears to be superficially coherent, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense when subjected to the lightest of scrutinies. And the suicide story doesn't hang together at all.

The first allegations against Epstein were made in 1996 (to the FBI, no less),(41) when he would have been around 43 years of age. It's likely that he met his primary partner-in-crime – Maxwell – in the late eighties. Virginia Roberts (now Guiffre), the best-known of Epstein's victims, was first abused by him and Maxwell at age sixteen, in the summer of 2000.(42) The infamous picture with Prince Andrew was taken in London, when she was seventeen. Oddly, though she alleges that she slept with the prince three times, on none of those occasions would she have been under the age of consent.(43) On other occasions, she very much was. And she was also required to find Epstein more victims.

So, as far as the evidence demonstrates, Epstein became a hebephile/ephebophile – sexually interested in children from the age of 12/13 up to 17 – in his mid-forties; ideally, three separate victims per day. Or, perhaps, he had the means at that point in his life to indulge a perversion that had always lurked within. It does, however, feel as if we are not in possession of the full story. Either the abuse had started much earlier, but was perhaps more limited in scope, or Epstein underwent some kind of awful makeover, with Maxwell's encouragement, perhaps.

But, as it stands, the official narrative is a little threadbare in this regard. We have no reason to doubt the account of the Palm Beach victims and their testimony reveals a man who is borderline out-of-control, who has gone from abusing a small number of teenagers who were (mostly) permanent or semi-permanent fixtures, to victimising a cast of thousands. The level of risk involved sky-rocketed. As did the likelihood that his criminality would be exposed. He was either extraordinarily reckless or certain that he could get away with it.

But that was only the half of it. There was also the commercial operation, the sex-trafficking for Epstein's friends and acquaintances. Roberts alleges that he had cameras throughout all his houses and that he told her that “the reason for him doing this was so that they would ‘owe him,’ they would ‘be in his pocket,’ and he would ‘have something on them.’”(44) Perhaps so, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Any attempt at blackmail would surely have made him persona non grata in short order.

I can see how kompromat might be useful, but only in either a subtle fashion or, conversely, in a act of mutually assured destruction. But Epstein wasn't an embassy official who had bugged an apartment and honeytrapped a Russian diplomat – he was knee deep in the criminal enterprise himself. It's difficult to see how he would have been able to get his way by threatening disclosure, when he would have been doing his own legs at the same time. However, were the compromising evidence to be in the possession of a third party who could not be criminally implicated – an intelligence agency, for instance – the dynamic shifts. In those circumstances, only one of the parties is vulnerable.

And I suppose it's possible that some of the abusers allowed their obsession to overwhelm their judgement and that, once they knew they were potentially on the hook, there was no reason not to continue to offend. Perhaps. But I think it more likely that Epstein was the OIC of the procurement of forbidden fruit on behalf of one or more intelligence service, a form of perverted R&R for the ruling class, that was allowed to hide in plain sight for the better part of two decades. He knew he had top cover, as was shown to be the case in 2008 and history seemed to be repeating itself come 2019. Then, just a month after his incarceration, Epstein was dead.

A 'suicide', which seems to have been executed by people more familiar with sledgehammers than with scalpels. The narrative is comically jarring. In late July, he was found semi-conscious in a foetal position with neck injuries. The authorities claimed that he had tried to kill himself, whereas Epstein said that someone tried to kill him, that someone presumably being his cellmate, an ex-cop steroid freak charged with four homicides, now convicted of same.(45)

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Unfortunately, as is seemingly so often the case, the CCTV on the cell block wasn't available; staff had 'inadvertently' deleted the footage.(46) He was placed on suicide watch, a decision that was then rescinded. Whilst in prison, he had shifts of lawyers meeting with him all day. As a visiting attorney observed, “it sounded to me like a replay of the Florida thing where he got to go to the office … and sit around rather than sit in the cell”.(47) In addition, the day after being taken off suicide watch and transferred to the Special Housing Unit, he had a two hour meeting with a young woman in the prison's attorney room.(48)

In short, there was no indication that Epstein was suicidal. In fact, he had reason to believe that his sweetheart deal of 2008 would prove to be of benefit, notwithstanding any other assistance he might have been expecting. Tucker Carlson's friend spoke with Epstein on the phone the day he died and stated that he was far from despondent. In fact, he had a bail hearing scheduled in two days time and his expectation was that he would be getting out.(49)

The night of his suicide saw the usual alleged cascade of ineptitude. High security cells, such as the one housing Epstein (allegedly, he had no cellmate at the time of his death, as he had been transferred out that morning) are said to be equipped with two video cameras and there are others “placed strategically throughout the institution”.(50) Two staff were on duty throughout the night. Regrettably, any and all available cameras 'malfunctioned' - again.(51) The staff allegedly fell asleep and stayed asleep, failing to check on all prisoners every thirty minutes. Hence, he wasn't found until 06.33 in the morning. By then, he had managed to hang himself with one of the many sheets that he had been supplied with. So the story goes. However, there are elements to it that are clearly not true and if everything was above board, there would be no need to lie.

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In the first instance, the injury to the neck couldn't have been caused by a sheet. Secondly, a guard allegedly cut Epstein down, yet there is no cut mark on the noose.(52) Thirdly, there were three neck fractures. Dr Baden, a former New York City medical examiner and a forensic pathologist, notes that “going over a thousand jail hangings, suicides in the New York City state prisons over the past 40-50 years, no one had three fractures.”(53) Carlson alleges that the Special Housing Unit was locked down that night and that each of the eight cells housed one or two prisoners. He further states that a source has told him that some or all of the cell doors were then opened, allowing people to mix freely.(54)(55) John McAfee, who would himself be suicided in a Spanish prison cell two years later,(56) had his own theory as to what then happened, although the cellmate who was transferred out that morning was a man named Efrain Reyes.(57)

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What is certain is that it did not go down as the official narrative would have it. If the prisoner count in the building cannot be cleared – which we are required to believe happened multiple times throughout that night – then the balloon goes up. If phone calls from Control were not answered by the staff on Epstein's tier, the assumption would have been that something had gone seriously awry; perhaps, even, a hostage situation or the killing of the guards.(58) Radio silence for eight hours or more is wholly implausible. SWAT would have had the door to the tier down in minutes.

The guards, who falsified records to show that they had done the necessary checks, had their charges dropped in federal court in exchange for co-operating in the non-existent investigation into the death (59) or, in the non-pretending version of reality, by way of thanks for their collusion. Two other prison guards, who were also on duty for at least part of the shift, have not been named. The Chief Medical Examiner ruled Epstein's death a suicide (despite not being present at the original autopsy), thus contradicting the actual examiner, meaning no further investigation was required.(60) No video footage or paperwork that might have filled in the gaps has ever been made available – we are left with AG Barr's version of the Incompetence Defence, whereby a “perfect storm of screw-ups” is responsible,(61) so there's nothing to see here, best move along.

There was the usual sound and fury on Capitol Hill, ritually followed by a complete lack of action. Epstein's brother can get no answers to the numerous anomalies in the handling of the body, nor can he gain access to any of the paperwork that should have been filed. The recording of the 911 call has disappeared into the ether and the government simply intones the magic words – 'after careful investigation, we've determined it was a suicide' – and there seems to be nothing more to be done. One final question remains unanswered; why, after decades of allowing him free rein, kill Epstein now?

It may be that an inevitable sequence could have been set in motion, one that had the potential to end badly for whoever it was that was running Epstein. It certainly appears that somebody was paying close attention to the progress of the lawsuit seeking to unseal the files in the civil case. Epstein was arrested promptly when that decision went against the government's interests and he was charged the following day. The implication is that the SDNY was prepped and waiting, but the narrowness of their focus speaks more to another attempt at a cover-up than of a serious attempt to throw the book at him.

Perhaps the prosecutors had simply been instructed to do enough to get Epstein incarcerated and vulnerable and then avert their eyes. Perhaps, to those that mattered, the prospect of more horse-trading was unattractive and the risk of an actual trial – and the potential disclosure of deeply damaging information – was too much. The ex-cop cellie maintains that Epstein was offered another sweetheart deal if he could give the Feds something they could use to impeach Trump again. Epstein wouldn't have to prove anything, “as long as Trump's people can't disprove it”.(62) Perhaps he had become more of a liability than an asset and it was time to bring the curtain down before he managed to get bail. It may not have been overly difficult to persuade/allow a lifer to eliminate a man who abused minors.

Setting aside Barr's 'perfect storm', it is apparent that the narrative around the missed checks during the night is false. Given the extent of Epstein's injuries and the mismatch between the alleged noose and the ligature mark on his neck, a verdict of suicide was unwarranted. A proper investigation was never conducted. It all stinks to high heaven, but that simply makes it all of a piece with the free pass that Epstein got when he was alive.

The contents of Epstein's New York mansion, his Florida address and his registered home address in the Virgin Isles have remained under wraps. No entity has showed any real interest in getting to the bottom of why the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak was a frequent visitor to Epstein's New York home,(63) or why the man who became Biden's CIA Director had several meetings with him post-2008.(64)

Nobody is motivated to explore whether the early deaths of the Florida detective who pursued Epstein (who was 50 when he died 'after a short illness'),(65) the Deutsche Bank executive who signed off on millions of loans to Epstein and who was to have been interviewed by the FBI (who allegedly hanged himself in November 2019),(66)(67) the butler who stole the Black Book and attempted to sell it to a wholly uninterested media (dead at sixty from a rare and deadly cancer),(68) and Epstein's last cellmate (a 51 year-old who 'died of Covid' in 2020)(69) are in any way suspicious. Jean-Luc Brunel has also departed the earthly realm, another victim of a jailhouse hanging in 2022.(70)

And whilst there is evidence aplenty that the great and the good were abusing minors – including eye-witness testimony from Roberts and evidence that Clinton ditched his Secret Service protection on multiple occasions whilst flying on the 'Lolita Express' –(71) there have been no prosecutions and no appetite for any proper disclosure of the vast amount of data the Feds have seized. We are now told that this will be forthcoming, but it won't be. How could it? Epstein died nearly six years ago. If someone was going to answer for their crimes, it would have happened by now.

“None of them has been investigated, much less prosecuted. The obvious cover-up of elite criminals is itself evidence of the rotten foundations of federal “justice.” It has been left to the trafficked victims to sue in civil court.”(72)

How could Trump's administration release incriminating evidence into the public sphere and then attempt to justify why it isn't going to investigate? That isn't going to happen. Instead, prepare to be inundated by reams of information confirming what we already know about Epstein's personal criminality. The evidence implicating the elites will be retained by the intelligence community for deployment as and when they see fit. The AG is going to some lengths to prepare us for what's not coming, by intentionally playing dumb and pretending that the term 'Epstein Files' relates solely to the crimes committed by Epstein himself:

“...we are releasing all of these documents as soon as we can get them redacted — to protect the victims of him, of all of these horrific crimes that he committed.”(73)

And the whole focus of the drama is on the FBI. If he was an asset, the FBI wouldn't have been running him. Given his early involvement with Iran/Contra, the CIA is a far more plausible option, but I don't see anyone demanding their files. But the media – including many that we may have a little time for – will mostly play along and the Great Pretending will continue. Releasing information detailing the abuse meted out by a dead person and ignoring the related malfeasance of those still alive is the establishment play, so that's what she's going to give us. The great reveal will ape the nothing burger that was the release of the JFK Files, which suggested that it was the Russians that did it (just for a change) and gave a data dump about Oswald that nobody is the slightest bit interested in.

Whatever it was that dissuaded Trump from declassifying the files during his first go-around didn't make it into the latest disclosure and he must know that. There is nothing there any more. Most of what could have been in any way informative was destroyed long ago and today's theatre is simply yet another retread. The Deep State still lives and it's fighting hard. Its denizens don't much care whether we've caught on, as it's the lesser of two evils. Asking the fox to investigate the carnage in the hen house is to guarantee a cover-up and that's what we will be treated to in due course. The nameless spooks will skate and the Republican AG's credibility will be in tatters – a gratifying twofer.

The recent escapades are where the potential for most reputational damage resides. The attempts on Trump's life are a case in point. 47 has said that he is due a report, which he is intending to share. No doubt it will cut to the chase and name the conspirators. Just kidding. We only see the part of the iceberg that's above the water and we place our trust in the undeserving, who are often (supposedly) our champions. The pattern has been repeating itself lately, with several state-of-the-art limited hangouts by 'conservative firebrands'. It seems that, even when the enemy is trying to execute their leader, they still run cover for them. And, now that they have, they aren't in a position to change their tune without 'fessing up to wilful blindness.

The narrative of the first attempt at Butler, Pennsylvania is riddled with outright lies, multiple instances of unacknowledged evidence and a level of alleged incompetence that would put a team of five-year-olds to shame. Thomas Michael Crooks, a twenty-year-old nobody with no social media presence - “no TikTok, WhatsAp, Telegram, SnapChat, Insta, Twit, FB, gaming profile or Apple ID to correspond with his almost guaranteed iPhone, XBox or Playstation” -(74) is the latest 'lone nut' to achieve fifteen minutes of fame, allegedly firing eights shots at candidate Trump. Except for the fact that the first eight shots contain acoustic signatures of at least two (probably three, possibly four) separate weapons firing from three different distances.

The first five are from pretty the same distance (400-450 ft away) – but are clearly two different rifles – and rounds six and seven have much larger time gaps between the snap of the rifle and the echo, one at around 600 ft away and the other well over 1,000 feet away.(75) Then there's this guy, on the water tower.

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Some of the early TV reporting is of witnesses saying that the man on the water tower was taken out by snipers and many more have said that shots came from the tower also.(76)(77) So, there is more than one shooter. Which means that the FBI is flat-out lying, as there cannot have been eight spent cartridges on the rooftop. And, as ever, if there is nothing to hide, there is no reason to lie.

There are also numerous implausibilities on the day. Crooks wandering around with a range finder, flying his drone over the site, running across rooftops in full view of the crowd - many of whom warned law enforcement who mostly did the square root of diddly squat – seemingly without fear of apprehension. The rooftop itself was allegedly 'too slopey',(78) despite police snipers being placed on other roofs with a steeper pitch. It was also the prime location for a shooter, being a mere 148 yards from the stage with no obstructions between it and the target. The overwatch snipers, who would have been able to see Crooks setting up and assuming the firing position, left their posts.(79)(80) The usual canine teams were missing, access backstage was a dangerous shambles and the Secret Service leadership had informally told agents not to request extra assets specifically for Butler, which speaks of a pre-emptive defensive brace, knowing that criticism is about to be incoming.(81)(82)

That's to say nothing of the other unfortunate circumstances and coincidences surrounding the event. Three days prior to the rally, the White House announced that Jill Biden was belatedly taking up an invitation to speak at a casino in Pittsburgh at the same time as Trump's rally.(83) Remarkably, Harris also signed on last-minute to a small event in Philadelphia on the same day, all of overburdened the same Pittsburgh Secret Service office.(84) It is worth noting that there is no such thing as a 'spontaneous' addition to a schedule on the campaign trail. It just doesn't happen. The schedule is worked out many weeks prior to events and spontaneous decisions such as these two simply cannot physically be catered for.

Nonetheless, to us laypeople not in the know, these alterations seemed to give the Secret Service top brass the opportunity to divert many additional agents to the First Lady's event and the VP's and relatively few to Trump's:

"There were also many supplemental agents from different field officers (not Trump's regular detail) providing security at the rally because Trump's regular detail has been overworked (some working 7 days straight), and only two counter-snipers.”(85)

Apparently, an outdoor rally by a candidate allegedly under threat of assassination by Iran – allegations that the Iranians have described as “fabricated” and “a disgusting conspiracy” -(86) and attended by many thousands was less fraught with danger than an indoor dinner with 300 invited guests.

Other ripples in the fabric include CNN's decision to livestream the rally, “which they very rarely (if ever do)[sic], especially not in the middle of nowhere”,(87) a massive shorting of the stock of Trump's Truth Social the day prior to the attempted assassination by a financial services company with strong connections to the Bush family – which would have netted many millions if Trump had been killed -(88) allegedly by accident,(89) and the New York Times photographer who captured the famous picture of the bullet flying past Trump's head was using a stills camera with a shutter speed of 1/8000^th of a second, appropriate for capturing extremely fast action but a curious choice when photographing a man standing at a podium and pointing at a spreadsheet.(90)

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Post event, the anomalies continued to pile up. The go-to Crooks photograph used by the media was a high-school portrait from years earlier, following the precedent set when the mainstream tried to deify Trayvon Martin.

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Crooks' body was apparently left on the roof for the better part of twelve hours before the medical examiner visited the scene and authorised recovery.(91) An autopsy was conducted and, despite a state mandate to release full results to the public, no report has been published.(92) The body was cremated. No toxicology report, ballistics reports, fingerprint or DNA data, crime scene photographs, no press briefings. The FBI hosed down the rooftop and got on with more dawn raids on grannies who'd been escorted through the Capitol by police on January 6^th. The media moved on, incurious.

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The baton was handed off to 'conservatives' and they did not disappoint – the Blob, not us. Dan Bongino, now Assistant Director of the FBI (and ex-Secret Service) was given the opportunity to pen another chapter of The Incompetence Defence and, with much hand-wringing and head-shaking, he bemoaned the myriad 'failings' of his former colleagues. Acoustic signatures, water towers and expended brass belonged in a parallel universe, unexplored. He indulged himself in the time-honoured 'Start at Point B' methodology, a highly effective show and tell that bakes in all the most important lies at the outset which, in due course, leads to make believe conclusions.

Rep Clay Higgins, ex-law enforcement, was the ideal candidate to handle the other track - the abortive investigation - and was even given permission to label the FBI “an obstruction” - exciting times.(93) He wanted us to know that, not only was he an expert, he had also begun investigating “3 minutes after the shooting. I haven't stopped investigating since then.”(94) Higgins interpreted his role as an investigation into Crooks the shooter. Not into the shooting, per se. Not an investigation of all the evidence. Just another Point B merchant.

Had he been given the opportunity to examine the origins of Covid, he would have come up with some variation on the lab leak hypothesis. He wouldn't have started at the beginning. He wouldn't have considered any evidence that indicated that the SARS-COV-2 virus isn't an infectious agent or that the 'pandemic' didn't spread around the world, but was instead introduced in specific locales, simultaneously. That wouldn't have been within his remit. Similarly, his remit at Butler was to play the earnest investigator, not be the earnest investigator. In that vein, careful calibration was necessary:

”I’m not saying conclusively that there was no other shooter somewhere or that no other conspirators were involved in J13, but I’m saying that based on my investigation thus far, there were 10 shots fired on J13, and all shots are accounted for, and all shots align with their source. Crooks’ 8 shots (3 plus 5), ESU SWAT 1 shot, USSS southern sniper team 1 shot. Over.”(95)

Crooks' collection of cell 'phones, the pipe bombs in his car which were capable of remote detonation using parts from a supplier from China who didn't have Crooks as a client,(96) his numerous visits to a downtown DC building which is adjacent to the FBI HQ and his many encrypted overseas messaging apps are all of no particular concern.(97)(98) No photos, no social media, no nothing, so all good. The FBI gets a minor kicking, yet nobody is held to account. The equivalent of the 'strongly-worded letter' so beloved of Republican committee members. And the Secret Service endured Bongino's 'truth bombs' because, from the get-go, he also made the basic assumption that 'mistakes were made', nothing more.

Both he and Higgins manipulated conservative opinion and betrayed the Big Boss in the process. The Big Pretending was more important to them than the truth and they traded in their bona fides by protecting the former, rather than exposing the latter. It hasn't gone unnoticed amongst the rank and file but, in this world of false friends and wholesale deception, Bongino has already been rewarded. One assumes that Higgins will be similarly well-looked after at some point. Notably, nobody else within the Republican Party – not even Trump himself – has had anything much to say about the manifest inconsistencies and stunted investigations.

So, in the expectation that any new report will also be of negligible utility, what can we be sure of and what can we reasonably surmise? Well, notwithstanding the lack of motive, there's also the question of Crooks' reckless actions on the day. He was flagged as a 'person of interest' over an hour before shots rang out and one of the snipers had eyes-on twenty minutes out.(99) He wasn't going about his business covertly. It seems sensible to ask why.

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Especially when combined with the likelihood that he expected to walk away afterwards, which is an assumption that fits the facts as we know them better than any other explanation. There was no manifesto, no suicide note, no indication that Crooks' demise was a suicide by cop. At first, I wondered whether this was another of those cases when the patsy believes he is taking part in a drill, rather than the real thing, so subterfuge was not necessarily a prerequisite:

“So how did Thomas Crooks, an unprepossessing skinny kid barely out of his teens, know that he’d have an easy time getting past all the layers of security at this particular Trump rally with its crowd of some 50,000 people?”(100)

Indeed. Then I remembered that Crooks had logged dozens of visits to a rifle range, including once on the day prior to the shooting, which suggests that he intended to fire on Trump.(101) I can't imagine that any drill would include live firing at a presidential candidate, so we are left with two main possibilities; Crooks was a genuine incompetent who just got lucky over and over again in rapid succession, or he knew that he would be given a clear run and didn't feel the need to take much in the way of precautions.

It's still a stretch, though, either way. How does one go from being a nerdy nobody to an assassin? That seems to be a dramatic transformation. We are told that he was the classic loner, bullied by classmates who would refer to him as “the school shooter”.(102) I suppose the cliché could have been a reality in this case. There is likely more traction in the possibility that Crooks had been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, as alleged by a senior congressional leaker. If this was so, it is possible that he was prescribed SSRIs, which are known to lead – in some people – to a dissociative state leavened with violently psychotic behaviour.(103) Perhaps Crooks was fashioned into a hopped-up Manchurian Candidate.

But it's inconceivable that he didn't have outside help. How could he possibly have known (in advance) that Butler was the place to target and not one of the other ninety-five rallies Trump held in 2024? How could he have known that his rooftop would be clear? On any other day, with any other speaker, it wouldn't have been. In addition, the Secret Service declined to participate in a face-to-face briefing with local police and only communicated with them after the shooting began, despite the locals providing them with radios – not something they do elsewhere.(104) Then there are the additional institutional fails that go well beyond mere incompetence.

Jill Biden's last-minute mini event wasn't the only mechanism by which Trump' security was degraded. The government had also turned down numerous requests for additional resources in the run-up to this rally and at others, previously.(105) The Lead Advance Agent had been told that there was 'credible evidence ' of a threat to Trump (the alleged Iranian hit-teams), but failed to include this information in her planning documents.(106) Congressional Democrats even tried to introduce a bill that would have stripped Trump of all Secret Service protection.(107) The timing of the attempted hit is also interesting; had it been successful it would have given the Uniparty an opportunity to permanently derail the MAGA movement:

“If they [the Deep State] do it after the Republican National Convention, it would be up to the RNC members to pick his replacement and they would almost certainly pick whoever Trump announces as his VP during the convention. BUT if the assassination happens before the convention and therefore before Trump announced J.D. Vance as his running mate, then it’ll be a floor fight for delegates to determine the nominee. That’s something the Deep State can control. They can plug in whichever NeoCon RINO member of the UniParty Swamp they want within reason.”(108)

In the aftermath, the Feds from several agencies were unresponsive to congressional enquiries, failing to provide documentation and personnel for questioning. The 'investigation' by the FBI itself appears to have been stillborn, so it's difficult to see what Trump is hoping to learn through any new report, but FDR's famous quote is likely most – if not all – of what we need to know:

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”(109)

If anything, the second attempt has received even less scrutiny. It also felt normalised, as if this sort of thing – especially when targeting Trump – is what we should expect. This time the offender had six phones, two license plates and Trump's event schedule a month in advance.(110) And, instead of frequent visits to DC, he apparently had links to the Arlington, Va., Maximus Company, a known CIA cut-out.(111) Another random coincidence, like the Bush family being friends with the Hinkley family prior to the Reagan shooting (112) and the doorman at John Lennon's Dakota building on the night he was killed being the ex-Commander of Operation 40, the secret police of the CIA's Cuban-exile Bay of Pigs invasion force.(113) Strange how these things go.

I would be very surprised if the FBI releases any useful material pertaining to Routh's attempt to assassinate Trump. They are doing their very best to drag their feet over his prosecution and requested an indefinite suspension of the trial process in October 2024. At present, it's due to begin in September,(114) so the DoJ – nominally under Trump's control – will simply bat away all attempts at proper transparency in pleading the Fifth by virtue of the fact that it's an ongoing investigation. But it's reasonable to assume that, no matter how many layers of plausible deniability have been constructed, Routh was working for the previous administration; more precisely, for a trifecta of bad actors in the DoD, CIA and State Department.(115)

Somehow or other, a man of little to no resources – $300 in his checking account and with a failed business in his recent past –(116) was able to fly 4,000 miles from Hawaii, rent a car and get hold of a rifle and body armour (presumably, taking those items on a flight would be a tad tricky). This same man, on all manner of federal radars, had travelled to Ukraine on multiple occasions since just after the Russian invasion in 2022. He had been in-country for months, in total; somebody would have had to pay for all that.(117)

He had been reported to American authorities by a number of people. Aid groups in Ukraine had quickly realised that he was a Walter Mitty type and a nurse with whom he became acquainted, thinking him a “ticking time bomb”,(118) reported him to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who did nothing. To be fair, they were only following the example of the FBI, who had been similarly lackadaisical previously:

“...the FBI got alerted in 2019 that Routh had several firearms in his residence in Hawaii. As someone who had been convicted four times on felony firearms violations -- including possession of an automatic weapon -- this would have been a felony and a likely prison sentence that might have kept Routh behind bars this weekend. The FBI never followed up on a referral to local police...”(119)

As an American traipsing around the battlefield, Routh was very visible in Ukraine. In 2023, he was interviewed by the New York Times about his efforts to recruit Afghan soldiers to fight for the International Legion in Ukraine.(120) These would have been fighters in the modern equivalent of the Mujahidin, the CIA-funded overseas army who were originally tasked with seeing off the Soviets. So, an American, apparently a private individual, living on undisclosed funding, corralling Deep Sate assets ordinarily deployed against Assad and redirecting them to another proxy war in Ukraine.

He was also reported to the State Department for human trafficking.(121) He was reported to US Customs and Border Protection due to his threats of violence.(122) Various aid groups banned him (123) and reported him to both Interpol and the FBI for trying to recruit Syrian refugees, too.(124) When this became known, the DHS and the FBI were forced into an admission that he had been placed on a watch list – to be scrutinized and tracked upon his return to the States – but that he had, regrettably, “fallen through the cracks”.(125) Whoops.

Had they been tracking him they would have come across him on the treeline at Trump's golf course in Florida. What's more, they would have had twelve hours in which to apprehend him, as he was crouched by the side of the road. Quite why he had decided that Trump International Golf Course provided him with his best opportunity is not known. The Secret Service, once again caught between a rock and a hard place, went with the 'unscheduled event' canard in an attempt to justify the lack of a proper security sweep, although Trump frequently golfed there on a Sunday.(126) That being the case, a properly functioning team would have treated it as an official event, knowing that a bad guy might chance his arm. But no, despite the fact that there were “known vulnerabilities” along the fence line which, according to a whistleblower, had previously prompted the Secret Service to post up agents at the most vulnerable locations.(127) Locations like these, the second of which is another along the length of the sixth hole. At the time Routh was discovered, Trump was putting out on five.

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We are told that an agent was conducting a sweep on Hole 6 when he saw a rifle barrel poking through the foliage and that he fired off several rounds at Routh from a distance of only ten feet, missing each time but scaring the gunman away.(128)

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Maybe, maybe not. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of foliage and one might be expected to hear someone coming given the ground conditions. What we do know is that Routh's capture wasn't the work of the Service, but down to the quick thinking of a civilian instead, who took a photo of his licence plate as he fled.(129) It's difficult to see how law enforcement alone would have tracked him down, other than by fingerprint or DNA evidence. And perhaps the DoJ was dissatisfied with the outcome. It seemed that way as, just a week later, government lawyers published Routh's mea culpe through a court filing, pour encourager les autres. This was a first – the DoJ/FBI don't permit such evidence to be released for fear of the unstable receiving the message and understanding. As an aside, Routh does seem to be unusually flush with cash, does he not?

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Notwithstanding what seems to be an insider knowledge of Trump's unscheduled movements, this second assassination attempt has a different feel to it. The Secret Service had plenty of form for inadequacy, particularly at this particular location. It had not been uncommon for photographers to get within seventy five yards of Trump as he played the course, which is how they got these shots in December 2020. Even when agents spot members of the press, they are allowed to continue. So, unlike at Butler, the sloppiness was not anomalous.

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It's possible that the general attitude has been poor, or that the Service has become either complacent or plagued with DEI. One would have thought that, having narrowly avoided losing their principal in July and being cognisant of an ongoing threat against Trump, they might have tightened things up. Perhaps the idea was that their continued dereliction of duty in Florida was an open invitation that somebody would eventually take up.

But this attempt feels different. No back-up shooter, no elaborate manoeuvrings to weaken Trump's detail, no horrendous 'mistakes' in coverage. The Secret Service and local law enforcement have been at pains to feed us the line that the deployment was a success, on the grounds that they stopped the attempt. That is potent hogwash – Routh was undetected for half a day and, had his barrel not been seen by chance, he would have had a bead on Trump within ten minutes. Not to mention the fact that the agent seemingly couldn't hit a barn door.

The sensitive material in this case, which the three letter agencies will be most keen to keep hidden, likely relates to Routh's arms-length work on behalf of the Deep State's Ukrainian adventure, which would once again draw attention to the number of assassins who have allegedly fallen through the cracks;

“...including the Tsarnaev brothers (Boston Marathon), Tashfeen Malik (San Bernardino terrorists) and Omar Mateen (Pulse nightclub). It is always the crack fallers who seemingly end up carrying out their endeavors.”(130)

Were the FBI or the CIA to be running him as an off-the-books asset – which, given the circumstantial evidence, seems at the upper end of 'probable' – it wouldn't just be embarrassing; it would raise all sorts of questions as to command and control. Additionally, Routh has not yet managed to off himself and he gives every impression of being the loosest of cannons. I would be very surprised if he doesn't take a plea deal in due course, so that the government can avoid a trial. The wild-card in that scenario is the Attorney-General, who is now Trump's proxy. Will she be as willing to run defence for the intelligence community? So far, the vibe is not promising.

In toto, then, the full Epstein and Crooks files will not be disclosed, despite the fact that both are dead and there are no ongoing investigations and the Routh files stay under wraps. Expecting the 'Six Ways from Sunday' crew to mark their own homework is naïve in the extreme and any of Trump's officials – which is to say AG Bondi, Patel and Bongino – who say otherwise are already playing the Deep State's game, whether through conviction, fear or because they are compromised. None of them would be in place if cleaning house at the DoJ was the priority.

Patel's mentor is Trey Gowdy, a former GOP politician of traitorous disposition, who did what he could to undermine Trump on his first go-around. The two of them are currently cooing about how 95% of FBI officials are honourable,(131) which will be news to the J6ers, pro-life activists, Catholics and parents questioning school boards, but is a clear sign that any sweeping of the Augean stables will be undertaken with a brush the size of a toothbrush.

Bondi was the Florida AG when the state framed George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. As his photograph indicates, Martin was black. Zimmerman wasn't. But he was the target of a vicious, unprovoked assault by an aspiring MMA fighter nearly six inches taller than him, who may very well have beaten him to death had Zimmerman not shot him. The local police saw it for what it was and refused to proceed. Barack “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon” Obama, never one to pass up an opportunity to race bait, threw in with Martin's family.

Bondi, knowing that her prosecution team had fabricated a witness against Zimmerman, wrote a 41 page document arguing that Zimmerman's lawyers should not depose the fraudulent witness and was successful in her appeal. But when the trial came around, it all fell apart. Bondi got a free pass from the Leftist media, because she had done her bit.(132) But, from our perspective, expecting a woman with no moral fibre to have the minerals to expose the Deep State is foolish in the extreme. Limited hangouts will be the order of the day.

Bongino comes across as a blowhard cosplaying as a 'conservative warrior'. Fresh from bailing out his ex-colleagues in the Service, he is now in the midst of a second act with the FBI. This is a man who, on his podcast, routinely accused the FBI of colluding with the Deep State and – in June 2024 - called for it to be disbanded. He also had this to say:

“The FBI has totally and completely failed America. It kills me to have to tell you that you can’t trust these people, you cannot.”(133)

A week or so into his tenure, he had already been assimilated:

“The work going on inside of the FBI is saving lives. Most of it is done in silence due to its sensitive nature, but it is laudable. I had high expectations for the good guys, and they've been surpassed....The Director and I are both working tirelessly to reward the incredible work going on...”(134)

Etcetera, etcetera. We were treated to another airing of the 'mistakes were made' trope, then more verbal incontinence on the subject of transparency and accountability, thus setting the scene for what's coming, which is much talk and not much in the way of action. It's conceivable that the bureau may focus more on its actual remit, but there will be much cheerleading, tough guy rhetoric and very little accountability. Whatever disclosures are made will be of the thin gruel variant. The Three Stooges will continue to OD on slogans. And, true to form, both Patel and Bongino are now waxing lyrical about the disclosure of documents that nobody was asking for, the shooting of a Republican congressman in 2017.(135)

The “new FBI era of transparency” that both of them swear is upon us will cast very little light on anything much. They could have started by revealing how the Feds engineered the January 6^th farrago, but we haven't heard a peep about that. Or they could be revealing the FBI's role in the killing of MLK and the framing of James Earl Ray, another who was handled by some shadowy spook believed to be FBI.(136) The famous photograph, taken just after King was shot, doesn't show his companions pointing to Ray's rooming house, but to another building to the right of it.

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Other witnesses stated that the shot came from the bushes on a slope across the street.(137) But nobody thought it had come from the rooming house – apart from the FBI, presumably because that's where they had stashed Ray.

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His lawyer persuaded him to plead guilty (after eight months of maltreatment in the county jail), to avoid the possibility of a death sentence, but Ray recanted and filed a motion for a trial:

“But before the month was out, Judge Battle was found dead in his chambers, slumped over his desk. Beneath his head were the papers of the handwritten motion from James Earl Ray. The case was closed, and Ray began his sentence in the Tennessee State Penitentiary.”(138)

Ray was another suspect who seemed to have his own personal money-printing press. Money to live, to buy cars, to fly abroad, to holiday in foreign climes, to indulge in plastic surgery. He had four IDs, of real people, all of whom looked very much like him. He said the money came from his contact, Raoul.(139) The FBI certainly knew of Ray, as it was tracking him for ten months prior to the murder.(140) He also said that he had been set up as the patsy. And, in 1998, a Memphis jury found that government agencies had been involved in the plot to kill King and that Ray wasn't the shooter. Not that you'd know it, as the media gave the entire affair a wide berth.(141)

Or the CIA, whose Trump-appointed Director has had very little to say so far and seems to have no particular desire to be 'transparent and accountable', could always release the RFK Files. While there is no doubt that Sirhan Sirhan tried to kill Kennedy, he failed to do so. In fact, he failed to even hit Kennedy, although he shot several others who were present. But Sirhan was in front of RFK, by between two and three feet and Kennedy was shot from behind, from a distance of three inches or less; there were powder burns. The autopsy was clear on that point.(142) The bullet removed from Kennedy's neck couldn't even be matched to Sirhan's weapon.(143) This was the round that a man standing just behind RFK felt go past his head and saw make an impact.(144)

In addition, Sirhan's gun held eight rounds and there were at least twelve shots fired; that much is known from both the physical evidence and the audio record, the latter of which puts the number of shots at thirteen or more.(145) As usual, competing experts have 'debunked' this finding, but given that the number of bullets holes and bullets recovered from the injured exceeds eight, they are clearly in the business of defending the indefensible. There is also at least one witness who is prepared to assert that there were two shooters,(146) which the FBI was informed of at the time, but chose to ignore.

So, the evidence points to another shooter, and it isn't difficult to locate the prime suspect. Witnesses stated that there was a security guard standing directly behind Kennedy at the time of the attack and that his gun was drawn. This was the individual who had guided RFK through the hotel kitchen after the latter had given his victory speech in the ballroom. The security guard was a character called Eugene Thane Cesar. He was not a fan of the Kennedys. Nor was he a genuine security guard. He worked for the Hughes Organisation (Howard Hughes' company) and was an associate of Robert Maheu, who also worked for Hughes, but moonlighted for the CIA, too.(147) He was a man who took on work that the Agency didn't want to be directly linked to. Cesar was also known to consort with hitmen.(148)

Is it even remotely conceivable that the CIA and the FBI – tasked with the investigation – have retained all the files that demonstrate that they were criminally culpable, either before the assassination or after the fact? And, in truth, how much would the CIA have committed to paper in the first place? The FBI would seem to be more at risk of exposure, given the impossibility of reconciling the evidence with the narrative, but the CIA would have to be collectively nuts to have retained any document that exposes their role.

This whole transparency saga is, therefore, a charade. It's just about possible that the agencies will release whatever it is that still exists – although even that is a huge stretch – and that this will allow them to claim that they've been open, which will, in turn, bake their favoured narratives into the record and permanently spike any more enquiries. Instead of transparency, there will be even more distrust and any of Trump's appointments that tries to sell the fakery will simply reveal themselves to be establishment hacks, pretending to be the real deal. Trump may very well want it all out there, but nobody else does. So, they conflate transparency with honesty, knowing that what will be revealed will not lead us to the truth.

It's a win-win for the Deep State. They put a number of sagas to bed – permanently – and suffer no real pain in the process. Trump, by association, loses credibility. And we get that sinking feeling once again, only this time it will be especially impactful. Hope is a dangerous thing and, perhaps we have dared to believe that change was on the way. Maybe, in other arenas, it is. But, as it stands, not where the intelligence agencies are concerned. They are beyond reach and their fellow travellers in the media will go to bat for them all day long and twice on Sundays, as they have done for decades:

“The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread...we are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes.”(149) John Swinton, formerly of the New York Times, known as “The Dean of His Profession”.

That applies equally across the spectrum. Very few will outline obvious truths but, whereas the Left is always on the verge of purging their heroes for not being radical enough, those on our side of the fence have the opposite affliction – a desperate need to fanboy for whoever we have anointed as our latest saviour. You can tell it's happening when journos start referring to them by their Christian names, but the fact is that the only people who can truly be trusted are the complete outsiders and those who have been cast into the outer darkness by their former friends; the latest category, with a dash of caution.

All those at the CIA and the FBI signed up within the past thirty years or so. The CIA was widely believed to be behind the assassination of JFK immediately after the event, so for the past sixty years it has been seen as a tainted agency. Hoover's widespread abuse of the FBI's powers has been known for even longer. Therefore, any individual who has signed up for either agency made a choice to join an entity that was known to be corrupt. The same dynamic is in play with those who are former Democrats (RFK Jnr and Gabbard in particular). Anyone who remained loyal to the party after the ascension of St Barack – and the party's subsequent descent into vicious delusion – will always have a question mark against their name.

Once we grow tired of the nibbling around the edges and the manufactured glee; once the 'influencers' have been revealed to be the lightweights that they are; once we come to a tentative understanding that the majority of our 'warriors' are controlled opposition, with a set position on the approved continuum; then we can, perhaps, get back to dealing with reality. And in that realm, the only viable course of action is to de-fund the CIA and the FBI and start again. Any other solution will be painfully drawn out and resisted at every step, as those that populate the agencies are not there for the right reasons. If you think that's in our future, I've got a bridge to sell you.

But, to exit stage left on a cheery note for once, it appears that battle is about to be joined in Langley, Virginia if not elsewhere. Trump's CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, has invited Musk down for tea and biscuits on Monday, 31^st March. Not Tuesday, 1^st April, which is promising. Ratcliffe is apparently wondering whether DOGE can assist with efficiency savings. Of course, that would be it – a perfectly innocent explanation. And he'd be foolish not to, wouldn't he, given the waste that has been exposed elsewhere in government? So, all entirely above board. Nothing to see here, move along. Until we zoom out and examine the context - then it looks like something else entirely:

“On his first day in office, Trump created DOGE. DOGE’s first project was to wood-chip the CIA’s global laundromat, USAID. Weird legal fights erupted over the obscure “independent” agency...The Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA Director. Ratcliffe immediately fired an unknown number of CIA staff. (Battlefield preparation?) Yesterday, Rubio officially ended USAID by Congressional notice. Yesterday, Ratcliffe publicly invited Musk into the CIA.”(150)

Adding a little extra weight to the speculation I am about to indulge in – which echoes the working hypothesis of the author of that quote – is the fact that the mainstream media stateside, with only one exception, completely ignored the story. That's probably because it is possible that, under the guise of 'efficiency', what is actually being implemented is accountability and proper oversight and that's not an angle that the agency would like to be illuminated in the public square.

All Directors are obliged to rely on their underlings to tell them the truth about CIA operations. But they don't. They are the only agency with a mandate to lie.(151) Operations are siloed, everything is 'need to know' and the career staff run the agency. The tail wags the dog and the CIA runs its own foreign policy. How could the edifice – not the people who work within it; that's for another day – be re-engineered so that the executive branch finally exercises control?

“Imagine a new, AI-powered, top-secret, digital DOGE dashboard at Langley that can show Ratcliffe everything in real-time: every dollar, every operation, every contract, every overseas asset being paid — and only Trump’s team will hold the keys. Once such a dashboard were installed, the Agency’s permanent staff couldn’t play their covert games anymore. No more secret drug ops. No more unauthorized coups. No more backchannel slush funds. No more resist Trump operations. If DOGE can pull this off, the Agency will properly become an extension of the White House, rather than the other way around.”(152)

If this is what is truly afoot, then future revelations – or updates, if you prefer – might build on the limited information coming our way initially. It's good to dream, occasionally. In the meantime, I hope Musk has a food-taster, because this scenario is existential for the Deep State. They will try and thwart it, at any cost. As Trump is fond of saying, “we'll see what happens”.

Citations

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(2) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/us/politics/biden-jfk-assassination-papers.html

(3) https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1901732366617362915?ref_src=twsrc

(4)https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/TATUM/tatum.html

(5) https://www.mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era/260760/

(6)https://web.archive.org/web/20150612144453/http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303

(7) https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-dodged-questions-about-sex-with-his-dalton-prep-school-students/

(8) file:///C:/Users/korisnik/Downloads/ANDREW_S-FIXER_SHE_S-THE-DAUGHTER-OF-ROBERT-MAXWELL-AND.pdf

(9) https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-fake-foreign-passport-was-used-in-saudi-arabia-and-other-countries/

(10) https://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1994/dig021894.pdf

(11) Ditto