i do wonder if we aren’t missing the forest here, not to sound like a broken record but whatever happened to him - killed, suicide, extracted, whatever (and i think he was killed and this indictment of the guards is a merry farce) - doesn’t really matter. the network itself is the story for me. epstein is just a window into how these systems of power interact. whether he was recruited into the agency at an early age by barr, or whether he was a hustler who started running kids to his powerful friends, and at some point an intelligence agency got involved to protect it or make it more efficient or whatever, the scope of it is incredible, the corruption is off the charts. it should be the biggest story in the world. heads of industry, politicians, almost anyone who has been anything important over the last 40 years is involved in some way. what kind of relationships were formed on that island, on the plane, in the townhouses? what history making events are a direct result of those relationships? it’s too much to get my head around.