Ds2 and I were having a discussion today about how this whole thing should proceed. He thinks the public is going to get tired of this story so we need to go after the top guys now. I think we won’t be able to make that kind of progress under this administration and that going after the Peter Attias and Yale professors of the world is a way to keep the story alive for now while waiting for new leadership at the DOJ.
What do y’all think? Keep going after these smaller fish who are gross but about whom we have no proof they actually are pedophiles? Or keep trying to get the big fish who are more culpable?
Also, another question: The information that these other countries have … where did they get that information? Is it from the DOJ’s Epstein files? Or do they have access to other information that might help the US go after people? Do they have actual unredacted Epstein files?
Great Britain is pressuring Starmer because of someone he put in a government position who had ties to Epstein. The King may throw his brother to the wolves to protect the crown, knowing that his subjects don’t want to monetarily support a royal family that includes possible pedophiles. Politics are different there. They are willing to ostracize people without requiring a court of law to convict them of crimes.
“This guy was actually not a bad guy,” Schank told Slate. “I mean, put the 14-year-olds out of the picture. Those even make me think he was a bad guy. But to my knowledge, he was not a bad guy. He was a good guy.”
In Attia’s case nobody is accusing him of sex trafficking, but his presence in the files opened the floodgates for other medical professionals to say what they had clearly been dying to say for years.
Maybe a similar dynamic with Gelertner.
The DOJ should go after the big fish, and the smaller fish can suffer the appropriate consequences from their friends, family, colleagues and community.
There was an allegation that two girls at Epstein’s ranch were killed during sex and buried in the hills just outsidethe ranch.. New Mexico officials are pressing for an investigation:
This is not a new name. Epstein worked for him for years, and Wexner gave him the NYC townhouse. Wexner said he didn’t know about the sexcapades,but left Epstein’s fund when he found out. Of course, didn’t tell/warn anyone.
I’m really flabbergasted at The Daily Northwestern article about Professor Schank. I went to NU when dinosaurs roamed the earth so I never knew him, but the things he says in those emails the paper quotes are disgusting. “Put the 14-year-olds out of the picture” – ummmm, not possible.
My SIL was telling how sloppily done the FBI’s redaction was.
Apparently a 14 YO student was able to un-redact the .pdfs by basically using a free open source program that converts pdfs into Word files. By doing a copy/paste, he un-blurred/un-blacked out every single piece of redacted text in the Epstein files because the underlying text was still there in the original .pdf, just with something pasted over it.
(The kid posting this on a substack also humorously added he wasn’t trying p***off anybody, that he loved his life. He didn’t want to die. He was a strong swimmer and he planned to live to be an old man…)
SIL also said the because the released text wasn’t in a monospaced typeface, that it’s relatively simple to write a computer code that uses statistical modeling to decode any blurred or blacked out names/words/sentences based on the width of various letters. Apparently there are decryption programs commercially available that do this.
I thought this info was both interesting and appalling. Isn’t the FBI supposed to be an intelligence agency that’s savvy to all this kind of computer data manipulation?
I used to do redacting for my company but the distributed documents were all photocopied, not the original redactions as they could be manipulated in some ways.
I spoke with someone yesterday’s whose teenager had figured out the email protocol and therefore identified a couple of dozen of the redacted names. Yikes. He’d have identified many more except he had tennis practice and a geometry quiz to study for…
