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Two new documentaries on the Jeffery #Epstein affair delve into lurid details and give voice to his victims, but both scratch the surface of the political and intelligence dimensions of the scandal. https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/17/epstein-case-documentaries-wont-touch-tales-of-intel-ties/
Investigation Discovery premiered a three-hour special, “ #WhoKilledJeffreyEpstein?” on May 31, the first segment in a three-part series, that focused on Epstein’s August 2019 death in federal custody. The special followed @netflix release of " #JeffreyEpsteinfilthyrich."
Neither documentary however deals at all with Epstein’s suspected ties to the world of intelligence.
In an interview with Consortium News, former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe said that #Epstein did not work with #Mossad. “Military intelligence was who he was working with, big difference... It was military intelligence.”
In 'Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales,' a book published in December, Ben-Menashe is quoted as saying he worked with Robert Maxwell who introduced his daughter and Epstein to Israeli intelligence, after which they engaged in a blackmail operation for Israel.
Ben-Menashe also claims that Robert Maxwell had attempted to blackmail Mossad. “He really lost his compass once he started playing these games with people,” he told @Consortiumnews.
Both documentaries mention Prince Andrew in the context of allegations about him from one of Epstein’s victims, but neither film goes into much detail about Andrew’s role in the Epstein operation, which Ben-Menashe said, was to lure powerful men into Epstein’s orbit.
“The only person that can talk, that probably knows quite a bit, is the great prince,” Ben-Menashe said. “He was with him [ #Epstein] all the time. I really don’t know what his future is going to be like, either.”
Since a number of influential figures were named in a lawsuit filed by Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell the day before Epstein was found dead in his federal prison cell in New York, Ben-Menashe said: "I’m starting to think that lawsuit was his death sentence..."
"... because people didn’t want to be named. That’s my guess, it’s just a guess. Obviously, somebody decided that he had to go.”
Just before Ben-Menashe spoke to Consortium News on Monday, he said he had received an angry telephone call from Israel’s Channel 13 television station.
“They called me, and they went wild: ‘What, you believe Israel would use little girls? You are saying that? You are insulting the nation, you are making us anathema around the world.’ I said, ‘The truth is the truth.’...
"... And Jeffrey Epstein’s story is something that nobody wanted to hear. He was working with the Israelis, he was working with Maxwell,” Ben-Menashe said.
He added: “It’s a very bad story, and I can see why the Israelis are so concerned about it. I believe [Channel 13] were expressing anger, and I believe this was a message. I don’t like messages like that… it has to do with the timing and these stories coming out about Epstein."
As in the Belgian #Dutroux case, victims alleged that multiple abusers acted in concert with each other, using blackmail to keep each other in line. In both instances authorities and the media portrayed the abuse as chiefly the product of a lone predator. https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/11/the-revelations-of-wikileaks-no-4-the-haunting-case-of-a-belgian-child-killer-and-how-wikileaks-helped-crack-it/
Another angle the documentaries did not approach was the environment in which #Epstein thrived like an algae bloom in stagnant water, that is, within a long history of child trafficking rings linked with intelligence agencies. https://consortiumnews.com/2019/08/23/long-before-epstein-sex-traffickers-spy-agencies/
Omitting the intelligence aspect of Epstein’s history allows the Establishment media to portray his case as a mysterious and unsolvable aberration, rather than perhaps a continuation of business-as-usual amongst those in power.
The glaring refusal to address Epstein’s intelligence involvement becomes clear when Investigation Discovery and #Netflix’s programs discuss the role of #Acosta in securing Epstein’s “sweetheart” plea deal, but do not reference Acosta’s widely reported explanation for the deal.
As reported by The Daily Beast, Acosta claimed that he cut the non-prosecution deal because he had been told that “Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.” http://archive.is/aTSR9
Independent journalist @_whitneywebb has reported on Epstein’s many ties with intelligence, telling #CNLive! in August last year that there is evidence this included the CIA. https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
Webb spoke about Iran-Contra links to Epstein via his and billionaire Wexner’s efforts to relocate Southern Air Transport (formerly the CIA’s Air America) from Florida to Ohio:
Webb told Consortium News:
“I think that one of the goals of this [Netflix] documentary is to basically imply that Epstein was the head of the operation and that now that he is dead, all of that activity has ceased”
“I think that one of the goals of this [Netflix] documentary is to basically imply that Epstein was the head of the operation and that now that he is dead, all of that activity has ceased”
Webb added: “If they had actually bothered to explore the intelligence angle, in some of the more obvious facts about the case.. it becomes clear that Epstein was really just more of a manager of this type of operation... that these activities continue.”
Webb said a main reason for avoiding discussion of the intelligence angle is that mention of state sponsorship would lead to calls for accountability and open inquiry into a history of sexual blackmail by intelligence agencies.
“So if they had given even superficial treatment of those ties, it would have exposed threads that if anyone had bothered to pull on a little bit, would start to unravel a lot of things that obviously these powerful people and institutions don’t want exposed,” Webb said.
More than nine months since Epstein’s death, no alleged co-conspirator has been arrested or charged with a crime despite reports of an active criminal investigation of Maxwell (who has disappeared) & multiple failed attempts of alleged victims to serve her with civil suits.
In sum: the omissions of major aspects of the Epstein case by the media, specifically its links with the intelligence community, seems to be yet another example of a buffer between justice and those responsible for rendering Epstein untouchable.
