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    5 months ago

    Not everything is some national security plot. Its completely possible that he ran that kind of service purely for private interests. For instance, Ralph Nader had people trying to do that to him hired by automotive companies.

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      5 months ago

      Not everything is some national security plot.

      This was explicitly a national security plot. Epstein had known associations within national intelligence, both historically and at the time of his arrest.

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        5 months ago

        So does twitter and whatever. This is a guy who hung out with rich people including prince andrew. Any contact could have been purely procedural. Whether there’s a real plot in there still hasn’t been proven.