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It’s nearly typical knowledge in sure quarters that Jeffrey Epstein should have been working for the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.
“It’s extremely obvious to anyone who watches that this guy,” Tucker Carlson stated of Epstein the different day, “had direct connections to a foreign government. No one is allowed to say that that foreign government is Israel because we’ve been somehow cowed into thinking that that’s naughty.”
Steve Bannon, masking all his bases, says Epstein was working for Mossad, MI6, Saudi intelligence and the CIA, whereas Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA solely says that Epstein might have been working for Mossad.
The first query to ask about this purported relationship is, why would Mossad wish to affiliate itself with Epstein?
He was underneath investigation for his sexual crimes going back to 2005 and convicted of a few of them (as half of a sweetheart plea deal) in 2008, and could be underneath federal investigation again about a decade later.
Clearly, it could risk an monumental black eye for the state of Israel to attach itself to a recognized intercourse offender whose way of life was a flamboyant and ongoing crime scene.
What could be the supposed upside? Compromising info on the wealthy and highly effective?
Presumably there’d be a lot simpler methods to honey-trap males with untoward sexual appetites than hope they grow to be pleasant with Jeffrey Epstein and compromise themselves on his personal island.
If the notion of Epstein as Israeli spy appears implausible, if not farcical, it’s gotten some superficial plausibility from components of the file which were exaggerated or misinterpreted.
Perhaps most important, the US lawyer for the Southern District of Florida who labored out the plea deal with Epstein, Alex Acosta, supposedly stated that he was informed to go simple on Epstein by higher-ups in the Bush administration at the time as a result of Epstein was with intelligence.
Acosta allegedly stated this as half of his vetting course of to grow to be President Donald Trump’s first-term secretary of labor.
But this didn’t come immediately from Acosta; relatively, an unnamed source informed the story to a reporter.
Acosta denies he ever stated it.
Asked about the matter at a press convention as labor secretary when the Epstein story reemerged, Acosta appeared to disclaim it — admittedly, in a halting and oblique fashion.
As half of an in depth 2020 Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility report into the handling of the case by Acosta and the Southern District, Acosta informed investigators that he had no details about Epstein being an intelligence asset, and that his reply at the press convention was meant to be a “no.”
The report associated that OPR “found no evidence suggesting that Epstein” was an “‘intelligence asset,’ or that anyone — including any of the subjects of OPR’s investigation — believed that to be the case.”
What about Epstein’s well-documented relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak?
One assumes that a Mossad asset wouldn’t spend inordinate time with a former high-ranking Israeli official.
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Alan Dershowitz, who represented Epstein, maintains that he requested his shopper if he had contacts with intelligence companies, and Epstein stated “no,” despite the fact that it could have been in his legal curiosity to reveal any relationships.
Regarding Epstein’s death, which many consider was actually a homicide, the Mossad accusations get more implausible.
Israeli intelligence needed to clean up after itself by killing an American citizen on US soil — actually, whereas he was held in an American jail?
By the means, if Mossad killed Epstein, and was succesful of pulling off a no-fingerprints operation in extraordinarily tough circumstances on US soil, absolutely its brokers would have killed his close affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell earlier than she went to trial with an incentive to spill her guts.
All of this so beggars perception it’s nearly not value addressing — besides that influential voices on the proper consider Israel is likely to be behind one of the most hideous scandals in latest American life.
Twitter: @RichLowry
