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2025-09-23 Home Front: Politix
Congress Allows CLOSED-DOOR Testimony From Key Epstein Witness Alex Acosta: Why?
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Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-23 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1833 views ]  Top

1 Intelligence assets can do whatever they want.
It's like FBI informants, they can legally commit crimes and even organize terror attacks. And FBI agents can legally participate! This is longstanding law, it's better to know what they're doing than bust them and let them grow in the dark.
Besides Epstein had blackmail material on tons of powerful people which is useful if you want to control them.
Posted by Elmomoter Mussolini9149 2025-09-23 04:18||   2025-09-23 04:18|| Front Page Top

2 /\ Intelligence assets can do whatever they want.

The "asset" can be terminated at some later date, ideally prior to legal discovery.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-09-23 05:29||   2025-09-23 05:29|| Front Page Top

3 If part of the American government was involved with pimping out kids to get blackmail data on rich and powerful people, closing the doors on testimony is not the answer.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-09-23 06:36||   2025-09-23 06:36|| Front Page Top

4 Considering the amount of information (both true and false) leaked over the years I must believe some very poor decisions were made during the Epstein operation. So bad that the only thing the establishment left and right in Washington seem to agree on is that America should never know.
Posted by Airandee 2025-09-23 06:49||   2025-09-23 06:49|| Front Page Top

5  “told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.”
IMO probably true.
And I suspect the reason Patel et al reversed track so abruptly is that once in office, they learned why the files had not been released, by either party.
Intel agencies have had too little oversight for a very long time, and correcting that for the future should be the current focus.
Posted by Glenmore 2025-09-23 09:18||   2025-09-23 09:18|| Front Page Top

6 /\ And I suspect the reason Patel et al reversed track so abruptly is that once in office

Yes, he was obviously given a briefing of some sort. I will never forget the news conference where Patel's eyes nearly popped out of his head as he and Bongino emphatically confirmed the Epstein suicide. Bongino may have seen enough, hence his recent control issue and the assignment of Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as "co-director" gov't watchdog and minder.

Any guesses on who Bailey really works for ?

Posted by Besoeker 2025-09-23 09:28||   2025-09-23 09:28|| Front Page Top

7 


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Posted by DooDahMan 2025-09-23 09:59||   2025-09-23 09:59|| Front Page Top

8 ref #6
Pretty sure the only guidance he ever gets comes from old-school techniques: face-to-face meetings, one-time pads, Ottendorf ciphers, or numbers radio code broadcasts. The Nellie Ohr solution is a remote possibility on low-power GMRS channels. The all-spectrum NSA Hoover is a forever record!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-09-23 13:54||   2025-09-23 13:54|| Front Page Top

9 Given no significant leaks that would titillate and entertain the masses, it is either the most guarded secret in modern history or an example of the plain stupidity of the entire ruling caste. The latter would reinforce the theory that it was something that got out of their control and the ramifications of that is more damaging than the actual event.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-09-23 15:51||   2025-09-23 15:51|| Front Page Top

10 I'll take "out of control" for $600. Alex.

The 9/11 Files: The CIA’s Secret Mission Gone Wrong | Ep 1
Posted by Besoeker 2025-09-23 16:47||   2025-09-23 16:47|| Front Page Top

11 And I suspect the reason Patel et al reversed track so abruptly is that once in office

Yes, he was obviously given a briefing of some sort.

Epstein was an alien.
Earth Girls Are Easy
Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-23 19:54||   2025-09-23 19:54|| Front Page Top

12 I will continue to call the POS, "pay me the Epstein Kash" Patel.
Posted by Woodrow 2025-09-23 21:17||   2025-09-23 21:17|| Front Page Top

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