The Epstein case: Media still giving you the grand bum steer

Bob Steffens
OpEds

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t's obvious by now that the corporate media (read: the media owned by the same type of plutocrats involved in the Epstein blackmail op) has no intention of ever telling you the truth about this sordid crime. Like the JFK lingering "mystery" this one will go into the state secrets bin and never emerge from that black hole, at least not on any major media platform. Meanwhile, these same media, so transparently in cahoots with the actual perps, are busy blowing smoke in our eyes. As we reported earlier, two main lines of disinformation are being circulated with the cooperation of witting disinformers and/or an army of dunces:

1. PRISON OFFICIALS DROPPED THE BALL
Epstein committed suicide because the prison bureaucrats and guards failed in their duty to keep him from killing   himself;
2. THE WOMEN'S (SMALL #METOO) SCANDAL
A growing battalion of women is coming to the fore clamoring for their day in court as a result of Epstein's myriad crimes and sins of seduction and sex trafficking, all such victims well armed with greedy and attention grabbing lawyers, and everyone hoping to get a piece of Epstein's substantial estate.

• What these stories have in common is that,
  (a) They are both insultingly absurd in view of existing evidence;
  (b) They are very minor footnotes to the real story, with #1 being a complete fabrication using the old fall guy technique;
  (c) They all reaffirm—without actual evidence—that Epstein committed suicide. That's their misleading departure point, just like the "Russians did it", in the case of the Russiagate hoax.
  (d) They are cynical distractions from the real "meat" of the case, a bum steer to cover the tracks of the real culprits.
  

We say they are minor footnotes, and mendacious at that, because Epstein simply did not kill himself. He could and would not have. He was so afraid he would be killed (a prior botched attempt had taken place just a few days before) that he had asked his lawyer to stay with him as long a spermitted each day. No, the actual perps, those who took him out, are likely in the service of the same agencies whose goals Epstein also served so well through his decades-long blackmail ring, a honey trap designed to catch influential men in the political, media, military, and corporate spheres of Western nations, starting with the US itself.  Credible analysts and journalists are suggesting that both the CIA and the Mossad were central to this scheme, with either entity operating jointly or separately in these schemes, as the situation might require.  Epstein's library of secretly filmed videos depicting guys in highly compromising situations was the blackmail mallet. As Reporter Whitney Webb has shown, this is hardly a new technique; J Edgar Hoover was apparently a believer in it, and he was both a user of the method, Hoover’s secret files kept presidents from firing him— and probably a victim, too, as all available evidence, such as it is, points to a heavily closeted gay life. In fact, longstanding hostility to gays serving in the miltary and security apparatus has long been justified by their supposed higher than normal likelihod of being blackmailed.

For professional assassins operating in all continents and with total impunity, rubbing out Epstein was probably a piece of cake. The CIA, Mossad and quite probably the UK's and France's spooks, too, have plenty of "assets" to get rid of an inconvenient witness. Any of these entities could have done the job. Epstein's strength for many years—his life insurance as he may have seen it—was also his greatest vulnerability. He literally knew too much. His was a high wire act. As a high-stakes pimp delivering guilty pleasures to influential politicians and bureaucrats (generals, admirals, judges, etc.)  in the world's most powerful nations (and probably smaller ones, too), Epstein was a gambler who chose to ride the tiger for a fortune. But Epstein also risked being devoured in an instant should he find himself momentarily on the ground. Once Epstein fell from favor, or began to be regarded as an intolerable risk, his fate was sealed.

So yes, killing him was the easy part. Shut-off from the outside world in a maximum security prison, and kept invisible by a deliberate media blockade that delivered heat but no light, Epstein was a sitting duck.

Epstein's real crime, the one that the media and politicians fronting for the global plutocracy are so anxious to rub out, and run interference for (and they are succeeding!) was one of organised, state-backed blackmail at the highest levels of the Western power elites. Nothing more and nothing less. Now that you know, watch the video(s) below and laugh, and hopefully get pissed, too, at the audacity of these media whores in taking you for a sucker. Do the protagonists of these sleights of hand (like the complaining women and their attorneys) realise they are being used to cover up something a million times more important, and sinister, than Epstein's criminal debauchery, or their own harms, painful as they may be? That is indeed a good questions, but, as usual, do not expect the media to delve into such matters.  (See Whitney Webb's Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal.)

And here's an exception to the rule, an alternative, anti-establishment comic and political commentator, Lee Camp, probes the right questions. Lee Camp doesn't have the mammoth audiences commanded by sellout Stephen Colbert, and that's precisely the point.