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JEFF CHILDERS

Next up on the Epstein list, on Tuesday, the Hill reported, “Mace asks CIA director for documents agency may have on Epstein, Maxwell.”

“Classified or not, we want to see it,” the Congresswoman wrote in a 2-page letter addressed to CIA Director Ratcliffe. “The American people deserve answers about whether our intelligence agencies had connections to a child sex trafficker.”

The unsurprisingly convoluted story began with a FOIA letter. Epstein’s own lawyers contacted the CIA in 2011, asking the Agency to confirm the relationship. At the time, various civil litigants were chasing Epstein around in court, encouraged by his 2009 guilty plea. Presumably, Epstein wanted to defend against the lawsuits by claiming he was working for the CIA. Sort of like 007 James Bond, except less tuxedos and martinis and more skeevy-demonic tracksuits and kitten blood cocktails.

Anyway, the last thing the CIA planned to do was get involved in Jeffrey’s sordid pedo litigation, and curtly responded that there were no such documents. But more recently, when the DOJ sought Epstein records from the CIA, the Agency said it could neither “confirm nor deny” any relationship between Epstein and the CIA, citing FOIA exemptions for classified information. So which is it?

I don’t know if the Agency realizes this yet or not, but nobody believes it never turned its jaundiced Sauron Eyeball toward Little St. James.

In this week’s letter (immediately posted to X), Congresswoman Mace cited obvious public information and the Epstein files suggesting there was a relationship, like Epstein’s three calendared meetings with Bill Burns, who later became Biden’s CIA Director. Mace also pointed out comments from various Epstein emails referencing “intelligence” and a “cia drop.” She might as well have said, c’mon guys, we all know.

If you consider Epstein’s connections to just Britain’s and Norway’s royal families, it was the CIA’s job to figure out what he was up to, and then tell the President. That is literally its charter. Epstein wasn’t some unimportant rando. He’s still destabilizing governments from his teats-up position in a coffin* (* allegedly), and the public probably knows less than 10% of whatever he was up to.

In other words, if the CIA doesn’t have files on Epstein, then what good is it?