My father, a former intelligence person during WWII, explained to me that if a secret is to be preserved, two links in the chain of evidence, not just one, need to be broken.
Many of us predicted that Epstein, as a serial blackmailer of the rich and influential, would not live for very long in jail, yet I was still surprised at the speed of his demise. We discussed this in some detail in August.
I now note that two prison guards have been arrested and charged over apparent administrative failures surrounding Epsteins "suicide".
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/19/us/jeffrey-epstein-guard-charge/index.html
My fathers dictum suggests that the two guards are unlikely to stay alive if they were in any way willing accomplices in what was perhaps a murder.
Ghislaine Maxwell? If she is smart, she will bury herself in a kibbutz in deepest Israel. I don't think she has the ability to make the trade of her continued life in the West for silence.
J,
There is no legal authority to transfer those accused of violating federal law into military custody.
Posted by: Fred | 24 November 2019 at 08:59 AM
Protective custody was the words that were on the tip of my tongue. They could be in the protective custody of FBI or U.S. Marshals, just so long as they were within the protective environment of Gitmo.
Hope your weekend's good.
Posted by: J | 24 November 2019 at 10:28 AM
Colonel,
Interesting conversation. I doubt she will be at the next big reunion, but she went to Millfield. I did not know her as she was there in the 70s. I started in 1985 and have no personal knowledge of her. Who knows what is true or not. For some, even after their education is over never really leave the Millfield 'circle.' Maybe she has left the UK, but it sounds as if the English insider angle was a prominent element in whatever it was they were really doing.
Posted by: mac | 24 November 2019 at 08:01 PM
If we take the official story as true - every single person in the federal justice system, from Attorney General Bob Barr all the way on down to the lowest Bureau of Prisons flunky cleaning latrines in a lockup in Alaska - everyone knew that, out of all the inmates in the federal correctional system, Epstein was the one inmate most obviously at risk of murder or suicide.
Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Let that one sink in.
Again, even if we take the official story as true - considering Epstein's high profile friends, either the intelligence agencies, with all their surveillance powers and disregard for the Bill of Rights, knew either they of Epstein's proclivities and did nothing, or they they didn't even think to look.
Again, let that sink in.
And that's just if you believe the official story with all its absurdities and contradictions. Frankly, Warner Brothers cartoon shorts featuring a talking rabbit require less suspension of disbelief than the official Epstein story does.
And that leads to some really disturbing suppositions.
Posted by: prawnik | 25 November 2019 at 11:14 AM