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DoBW

(2,743 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 08:43 AM Thursday

Comgressman was told Epstein bodyguard was CIA go-between

MASSIVE BREAKING: Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi just revealed that an attorney told them today that an Epstein bodyguard was an intermediary between Epstein and the CIA in 2009.

Release the Epstein files now !

Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) 2025-09-03T19:18:51.160Z
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Comgressman was told Epstein bodyguard was CIA go-between (Original Post) DoBW Thursday OP
K&R spanone Thursday #1
The victim's lawyers know what's in those files, gab13by13 Thursday #2
I think those files have long been shredded.... Xolodno Yesterday #24
Trump will classify the Epstein Files as "Top Secret" to cover up the CIA's (and his) involvement. sop Thursday #3
Tradition. Kid Berwyn Thursday #4
He was a mafia lawyer. Was this done to get control of politicians? LastDemocratInSC Thursday #5
Blackmail Gold Kid Berwyn Thursday #17
I absolutely HATE the term "child prostitutes" as though they had agency niyad Thursday #6
Well technically they were prostitutes as they were providing something to avoid being snuffed. LiberalArkie Thursday #11
A child is not a prostitute what the hell is the matter with you? Stargazer99 Thursday #21
Just the definition.. Although adult doing it should be drawn and quartered. Publicly. LiberalArkie Thursday #22
My purpose is to shine light on criminals who harm children. Kid Berwyn Thursday #18
Proof that lizard people exist IronLionZion Thursday #19
WTH, I'm getting a "blue sky is not available in Mississippi" message berniesandersmittens Thursday #7
Do you have a VPN on? Delphinus Thursday #8
Just incognito berniesandersmittens Thursday #9
Just tried to open it in a regular tab. Still blocked. berniesandersmittens Thursday #10
Try going to a map program and see where it shows you located./ LiberalArkie Thursday #12
Thanks berniesandersmittens Thursday #14
I think it is probably an ISP problem in that they probably have your IP geolocated wrong. LiberalArkie Thursday #16
IP location tracing can be misled by the way ISP's route their traffic and hand out IP's SpankMe Thursday #13
Thanks berniesandersmittens Thursday #15
Haha, clever.... electric_blue68 Thursday #20
TickTock. Joinfortmill Thursday #23

gab13by13

(29,635 posts)
2. The victim's lawyers know what's in those files,
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 08:46 AM
Thursday

they have to be careful what they say in public because the files are still under lock and key.

Xolodno

(7,143 posts)
24. I think those files have long been shredded....
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 12:23 AM
Yesterday

...and burned.

What many are scared of who were involved with Epstein, I believe at least, they don't know if they got them all. He was quite wealthy and may have kept copies as "insurance" in some foreign safe deposit box with an assumed name.

These things have a way of popping out in the future in some obscure way.

sop

(15,812 posts)
3. Trump will classify the Epstein Files as "Top Secret" to cover up the CIA's (and his) involvement.
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:10 AM
Thursday

Kid Berwyn

(21,897 posts)
17. Blackmail Gold
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:36 AM
Thursday

Before he repped the Mob, Roy Cohn was a US Attorney and Senate staffer.



The Ghost of Roy Cohn

BY TERRY MELANSON · AUGUST 24, 2014

EXCERPT...

In an interview with former NYPD detective James Rothstein, this author discovered that such operations do exist and go far back into America’s secret history. Rothstein is no conspiracy theorist. He is a legend in American law enforcement and speaks from experience. Furthermore, he gave me two notable examples from his time as a detective. Rothstein had an opportunity to have a sit-down with infamous McCarthy committee counsel Roy Cohn. During this sit-down, Cohn admitted to Rothstein that he was part of a rather elaborate sexual blackmail operation that compromised politicians with child prostitutes (Rothstein, no pagination). Cohn told Rothstein that this operation was being carried out as part of the anticommunist crusade of the time (no pagination).

Rothstein also had an opportunity to speak to infamous Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. During this conversation, Sturgis revealed one of the reasons for breaking into the Watergate. According to Sturgis, there was a “Pedophile Book” hidden away at the Democratic National Committee headquarters (no pagination). The book was supposed to have a list of pedophiles on the American political scene (no pagination). One can only imagine the power G. Gordon Liddy would have held over the government if he had such a book in his possession.

I asked Rothstein if Roy Cohn was a real anticommunist or just using the fear of communism to justify his sex ring. It seemed like a fair question. After all, Cohn had argued against homosexuals being schoolteachers when he himself was a homosexual. Perhaps Cohn’s hypocrisy extended to his anticommunism. Rothstein made it clear that Cohn was a genuine anticommunist (no pagination). Anticommunist sentiments aside, evidence suggests that the sex ring operation started by Cohn was used for more than fighting the threat of domestic communists. Fugitive ex-CIA officer Frank Terpil has claimed that sexual blackmailing operations directed by the CIA were intensive in Washington during the Watergate era (DeCamp 179). Terpil also asserts that his former partner, Ed Wilson, was coordinating one of these sexual blackmail operations (179). In a letter to author Jim Hougan, Terpil revealed Wilson’s modus operandi:

“Historically, one of Wilson’s Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary…. Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasies in the flesh…. A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras…. The technicians in charge of filming… were TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porno stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office.” (Qtd. in DeCamp 179)

According to John DeCamp, a former Nebraska Senator and Vietnam War hero, Wilson’s operation was merely a continuation of the one set up by Cohn (179). When I asked James Rothstein if Palfrey’s outfit was a continuation of the sexual blackmail rings that began with Cohn, he answered in the affirmative (Rothstein, pagination). The NYPD veteran made it clear that Palfrey’s outfit could not exist in Washington unless it was a tool for the power elite and sinister factions of the intelligence community (no pagination). Somewhere in a Queens cemetery, the corpse of a high-powered attorney is smiling in his grave.

SOURCE:

https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2014/08/24/the-ghost-of-roy-cohn/

niyad

(126,737 posts)
6. I absolutely HATE the term "child prostitutes" as though they had agency
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:51 AM
Thursday

and CHOSE this. THEY WERE RAPED!!!

LiberalArkie

(18,862 posts)
11. Well technically they were prostitutes as they were providing something to avoid being snuffed.
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:18 AM
Thursday

LiberalArkie

(18,862 posts)
22. Just the definition.. Although adult doing it should be drawn and quartered. Publicly.
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 01:08 PM
Thursday

I believe that most (all probably) of the kids had to do it for either their safety or their families safety.
Starving kids (on the street and not on the street) will try anything to survive. This is not their fault but societies fault for not taking care of them.

But families have often sold their boys and girls into sexual and other slavery since this nation was founded.

Kid Berwyn

(21,897 posts)
18. My purpose is to shine light on criminals who harm children.
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:45 AM
Thursday

Here's who I'm talking about:



Are We All Living in the World Roy Cohn Created?

A new documentary about Cohn makes us face an uncomfortable fact: We may all just be a bunch of hypocrites.


By Dwight Garner
Town & Country, September 20, 2019

Roy Cohn was not a conventionally handsome man, but it was hard to peel your eyes from him. He had a reptilian glamour. His tongue, like William F. Buckley Jr.’s, darted from his mouth. His sky-blue eyes were hooded and seemed ready, like a shark’s, to roll back into his head during an attack. Orwell said that every person at 50 has the face he deserves. Cohn had bloodshot eyes, a botched face-lift, thinning hair, and a leathery tan, as if he’d been left too long on the griddle. Yet his brand of antiglamour and his hangman’s gaze burned steadily until the end.

Excerpt...

One gets a sickening sense, watching Where’s My Roy Cohn?, that we’re living in a world Cohn created and that it extends far beyond politics. (The title is something Trump reportedly said during the early days of Robert Mueller’s investigation into his alleged corruption.) More than a year after it broke, the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal continues to flush out hypocritical actors—most recently an ambidextrous class of lawyer, Lisa Bloom and David Boies among them, that touts its work for victims of sexual assault while also offering its services to the attackers. In this year’s college admissions scandal—a gift that keeps on giving—virtue-signaling celebrities like Felicity Huffman were caught bribing or cheating their way into elite colleges.

Dante, in The Inferno, placed hypocrites in the eighth circle of hell, down among the counterfeiters and flatterers. In America, where there barely seems to be a concept of shame any longer, bad faith fills the air like humidity and Cohn’s ghost wanders the corridors. It feels as if we’ve all been pulled down to smolder in that eighth circle.

And where does that other legion of hypocrites—the hangers-on, the willfully blind, the socially adjacent—fall? Even after he was a registered sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein was a popular dinner guest. His power, money, craggy good looks (a mashup of Leonard Cohen, Loudon Wainwright III, and Warren Beatty), and ability to get into the right parties made him attractive despite the moral taint.

Who knew what when? In Palo Alto, after Epstein’s conviction, he was a guest at a dinner for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden that was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. At the same dinner Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Is money so powerful that it tramples all other considerations? As James Baldwin put it, “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

One of the most remarkable moments in Tyrnauer’s documentary comes near the end, when it’s no longer possible to pretend that Cohn isn’t a liar and a fraud, when it’s no longer possible to deny that he lacks both shame and conscience. When Cohn was about to be disbarred in 1986 for defrauding his clients and for taking advantage of a dying and incompetent man, character witnesses began to emerge. There were letters to the court from William F. Buckley Jr., Barbara Walters, William Safire, and, of course, Trump, who wrote that Cohn “has been extremely loyal and extremely honest.” Were Cohn’s parties—was his protection—really that good?...

Continues...

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29130905/roy-cohn-documentary-wheres-my-roy-cohn/

IronLionZion

(49,799 posts)
19. Proof that lizard people exist
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 11:02 AM
Thursday

Very interesting to describe him as reptilian and leathery. Eww...

berniesandersmittens

(12,405 posts)
7. WTH, I'm getting a "blue sky is not available in Mississippi" message
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:02 AM
Thursday

I don't live in Mississippi

LiberalArkie

(18,862 posts)
12. Try going to a map program and see where it shows you located./
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:23 AM
Thursday

Bluesky users in Mississippi can no longer access the app after the social media firm refused to comply with a new age verification law.

The platform, which was created by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, said that the US state’s HB 1126 law would “fundamentally change how users access Bluesky” due to free speech and privacy implications.


If that is ok, it is time to call ISP and ask why? Your ip address should show you in the correct state at least.

LiberalArkie

(18,862 posts)
16. I think it is probably an ISP problem in that they probably have your IP geolocated wrong.
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:36 AM
Thursday

The services (BlueSky) rely on correct IP address block geolocation from the ISP's to know what ISP Address ranges to block.

Someone probably just "fat fingered" something..

SpankMe

(3,580 posts)
13. IP location tracing can be misled by the way ISP's route their traffic and hand out IP's
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:25 AM
Thursday

For example, when I use Google maps at work (California), my blue dot showing my location is most often shown right on top of my office building. Other times, my blue location dot says I'm in Virginia. This is because the ISP my employer uses is based in VA and sometimes internet traffic to and from here gets routed through their office in VA. Outside web sites will think I'm in VA when this happens.

So, your ISP - even if it's a big commercial operation like Comcast - may be routing your internet traffic through a major hub somewhere in MS, thus tricking BlueSky into thinking you're there.

From home, I have found that I can sometimes watch live Dodgers games on MLB.com because my ISP routes me through some giant hub they have in Denver and MLB thinks I'm there. I live in an area where Dodgers are blacked out. So, when my IP reflects my actual location, live Dodgers games are blocked.

berniesandersmittens

(12,405 posts)
15. Thanks
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:30 AM
Thursday

I suffer daily from technoinsuffenciency disorder. Gonna restart my phone, see if that helps... Lol

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