[BBC] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) released over three million pages of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday - this latest release included over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
As he announced the new release, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defended missing the deadline to publish the files, saying there were "two Eiffel Towers" of documents reviewed to redact anything which could risk identifying the victims.
We've been looking through the documents, here's what we've found so far:
President Trump's name does again appear in today's release. There are a number of allegations about him in one document from an FBI tip line, investigators at the time said the allegations were not credible. The White House has directed reporters to the part of the DOJ announcement as containing "untrue and sensationalist" allegations against Trump
Another set of emails released today suggest that Epstein offered to introduce someone using an account named "The Duke" to a 26-year-old Russian woman - the person responding to the offer signs off the email as "A". The exchange is dated 11-12 August 2010, one month after Epstein was released from prison after being convicted in 2008 of soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl in Florida
The tranche includes a document on Epstein's time in prison and the circumstances surrounding his death - it alleges Epstein "preferred not to have a cellmate" and "engaged in manipulative behaviour to avoid having one
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has responded to lurid allegations against him in today's release – including that he caught a sexually transmitted disease – calling them "absolutely absurd and completely false".
Epstein sent £10,000 to Peter Mandelson's partner Reinaldo Avila da Silva in 2009, according to files released today. Asked for a response, Lord Mandelson said he had been "very clear" about his relationship with Epstein in interviews with the BBC. "I have nothing more to add," said the Labour peer
The files include Maxwell's registration into the Joint Automated Booking System, which is used to register alleged offenders once they have been arrested
Epstein was associated with many well-known figures, and being named in files related to the disgraced financier is not an indication of wrongdoing by any of the parties mentioned.
Go figure
[Federalist] A member of the State Election Board revealed that the ’tapes’ used to verify that ballot counters started their counts at zero may be missing.
A 2020 election scandal in Fulton County, Georgia’s most populous county, continues to grow with new details revealed in a State Election Board (SEB) meeting last Wednesday — and now, a week later, with an FBI raid seeking election documents from the county.
Fulton County was notoriously plagued with issues like long lines and voting machine malfunctions in the 2020 primary election, problems The New York Times described as "a full-scale meltdown." The problems continued through November’s Election Day and beyond, prompting concerns about votes being counted without proper supervision, among other things. The county’s repeated failures in 2020 so degraded trust in Fulton County’s ability to administer elections that the election director was forced to resign.
Now, members of the State Election Board have raised new concerns about the county’s administration of the 2020 election, revealing in last week’s meeting that the "tapes" used to verify that ballot counters started their counts at zero may be missing.
When a ballot scanner is used to count ballots, election officials must start the process by printing and signing a "zero tape," which confirms the count started at zero. After counting ballots on the ballot scanner, officials must print and sign a closing tape, which confirms the final vote tally from that machine. In December, an attorney for Fulton County admitted that the county failed to sign off on more than 100 "tabulator tapes" — equivalent to about 315,000 votes — from early voting in the 2020 election. That admission was prompted by a complaint that was investigated by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office.
But in the course of investigating that complaint about the "closing tapes," state investigators also looked for the "zero tapes," and were unable to find any from Fulton County’s early voting period in the 2020 general election, SEB member Jan Johnston said during the board meeting.
"The zero tape is like the beginning of a trip odometer," Johnston explained. "You’re gonna take a trip, you’re gonna open the polls, and you set your trip odometer to zero. You look in the ballot box, and there are no ballots in the ballot box. That’s the open zero tape. You have the election, and at the end of the day, you print out a closing tape. That is the end of the trip odometer."
The "zero tape" also helps ensure that there are no previous ballots left on the tabulator, such as votes from a previous election or a test run, that could be counted. It helps avoid situations like one that happened in a primary election in Montana in 2024, when officials discovered more votes were counted than voters physically cast. The county clerk said she believed the votes were leftover sample data that had not been cleared.
Fulton County’s admission in December came in response to a 2022 complaint by election integrity activist David Cross. Raffensperger’s office investigated the complaint, but did not present the completed investigation to the board until October, Johnston said during the meeting.
While reviewing the investigators’ report, the board became concerned that the investigators apparently were unable to find any of Fulton County’s 148 early voting "zero tapes."
To the board’s knowledge, Fulton County turned over "zero signed or unsigned opening tapes" from early voting, Johnston said last week.
Hi there. Former Intel guy who is also a former law enforcement guy here.
If Gabbard is on scene, it means that the FBI has found a foreign/counterintelligence nexus to the investigation into the 2020 election in Georgia; otherwise they'd be reporting to Bondi and DOJ.
NOTE: 3x's as many Advanced Voting, Absentee by Mail, & Provisional ballot votes were made by Democrats vs. Repubs.... Odd to say the least.
Plus, A news crew spoke with a few Firehouses, where the "remote Ballot boxes were placed. There was NO video camera surveillance setup to monitor the boxes and there were reports were made of certain persons arriving multiple times to dump boxes of votes in the collection box.
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52 U.S. Code § 20511 - Criminal penalties
5 years for ANY person covering it up also.
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The Zero Report is an important administrative tool, but I watched the two ladies on video scanning the same ballot multiple times. If they had preset the scanner for 100,000 Biden votes, there wouldn’t have been a need for all the Jazzercising. Duscussing the Zero a report is like complaining that a strangler failed to use hand sanitizer. Evidently, the two ladies were bad at their basic job along with willfully committing voter fraud.
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Donald Trump loses in Georgia. Election ballots counted in Fulton County. What does one think might have taken place ?
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GA. 2020
BIDEN Popular vote 2,473,633
TRUMP Popular vote 2,461,854
wins by only 11,779 votes
BIDEN
Absentee mail-in/drop-box votes 115,788
TRUMP
Absentee mail-in/drop-box votes 29,479
A FEW MEMORY NOTES:
Documented proof that Voter drop boxes and etc. from (R) districts were stolen, destroyed, and/or set on fire.
US Postal Dept "accidentally" forgets or misplaces 1000's of mailed in ballots from certain districts.
Cargo vans arriving after poll watchers sent home.
Truck crews Videotaped unloading loads of boxes of what turned out to be pre-printed votes.
NY Democrat campaign worker returning to NYC forgets and leaves over 4,000 pre-printed Biden Votes in his Hertz rental car trunk. Police were called in and not was done.
So the Liberals, Socialists and Radicals that make up and control the New Democrat Party, clearly pulled off a coup.
So, when will we see the ARRESTS of those that pulled off this Coup? Because, this was treasonous and was used to violate the civil rights for MILLIONS of US Citizens for 4 years?
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And let's not forget the water pipe that broke at that polling station in Hotlanta.
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