Where oh where have the Epstein files gone? Where oh where could they be?
Throughout my scientific career, I have necessarily had to read a lot of research papers. What I discovered in the 1980s was that the Russians were giants in theoretical biology. It stood to reason as Soviet labs did not have anywhere near the money that American labs typically had in order to buy equipment and reagents. The one thing that they had were big brains, so I found many papers proposing theoretical concepts of molecular action without the required lab work to back it up. Even when I arrived in Israel over 30 years ago, there was a central instrumentation lab used by many different groups. At Harvard and Wisconsin, each group had all of the equipment that was shared in Jerusalem.
Another area of excellence for the Soviets was spying. There were those saps in the West who bought into the Soviet propaganda and willingly served as spies for Russia. Several high profile academics aided the Eastern Bloc out of ideological agreement. But many of Russian’s best spies were gained the old fashion way: through blackmail. A target of interest would be invited to meet someone from the Soviet Embassy. He would be shown some compromising pictures or problematic financial documents and given an option: get us the material we want or find the damning material in the newspaper next week. When Harry Truman told Stalin that the U.S. had a new, powerful and destructive weapon immediately after the Trinity Test, the Soviet dictator was barely moved to answer him. Truman did not know that his “friend” had nearly two dozen spies in the Manhattan Project, including a few key individuals at the Los Alamos laboratory. The Soviet’s detonation of an atom bomb was well before when the U.S. expected the same, and there is no question that the pilfered material (including enriched uranium strapped to a Soviet diplomat’s body) helped shorten the time to detonation.
Let’s get back for a moment to the sordid Epstein business. I am glad that people are demanding to know more. If this was Joe Biden saying that the material was a nothing burger, the loyal press would be commanded to say the same. Instead, Americans want to know what happened—and not out of some perverse interest in the disgusting business of Epstein and his associates. Rather, they want to understand what was going on with some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world. The mistake made by the Trump administration was one of honesty. From the candidate prior to reelection to his chosen leaders of the FBI and Department of Justice (DoJ), all of them promised that Americans would get the straight dope on the Epstein affair. We saw an FBI agent in New York fired for not sending the relevant files to Washington. We were told that a truck full of documents was received. We were told that the “client list” was on Pam Bondi’s desk. We were told that nobody was above the law. We were told that Senator Dick Durbin scotched the release of Epstein’s flight logs from the “Lolita Express”. Everything we were told was that the American people would know the truth.
And then this week we were told that there is no client list. We were told that nobody would be prosecuted. We were told that there were twisted videos but nobody would be held accountable for what happened to these young girls. Even President Trump at Tuesday's cabinet meeting seemed surprised that anyone would even ask a question about the guy who cavorted with the Bills—Clinton and Gates. He wanted to move on to discuss the tragedy in Texas. A year ago, he promised that all of the files for JFK, RFK and Epstein would be fully released. Two out of three ain’t cutting it with the American people. So what’s the deal?
What I am about to write is pure conjecture. I was not washing the Oval Office windows last week, so I do not claim any privileged information. Instead, let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s imagine that the Epstein material cannot be released without causing a tsunami of trouble for the intelligence community who used the “financier” in various activities at least in the 1980s and 1990s. Let’s say that the release of the material would cause legal jeopardy for many powerful people, including members of Congress. So the top people conclude that the files and videos cannot be made public. But who says that it can’t be used? The administration could make certain people know that they have the goods and reserve the right to make use of the material as needed. All of a sudden Bibi Netanyahu’s biggest Israeli critic, who was photographed going into Epstein’s State Department-held New York mansion, goes radio silent. The Bills stop criticizing Trump and his policies. Members of Congress who were opposed to the most important piece of legislation in a decade suddenly lined up to vote yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill. That something can’t be released doesn’t mean that it can’t be used. Sending a message to someone who has a lot to lose—family, wealth, position, and possibly his freedom—might elicit an enormous degree of cooperation. The client list obviously exists if Pam Bondi said that it sat on her desk, but it currently is in suspended animation. The last day of the administration will include a bonfire and the Epstein story will come to an end. That's how the British got rid of all material related to their cracking the Enigma machine at Bletchley Park.
As the DOJ does not want to pursue Epstein’s associates, the only ones who could give the American people part of the truth are the poor young women who were abused by Epstein and Maxwell. I would never ask them to come forward, as they have suffered enough. But they alone know what happened on the island and in the various properties that were owned by a former high school math teacher turned multimillionaire financier friend of Prince Andrew and other global players. A possible reason for dropping the material might have involved the need for these women to testify and face brutal cross-examination of what they say took place when they were minors. Epstein’s intelligence activities will probably never see the light of day if multiple countries were involved, as Mike Benz suggests.
The vanishing client list and lack of interest as to who did the terrible things in the videos in DOJ’s possession do not pass the Great American Smell Test. The people want the truth—nothing more and nothing less. People who like Donald Trump and support his policies just want the facts as promised and not a “now you see it, now you don’t” show. Publish the flight logs, as those clearly exist and are somehow in the possession of the Senate. Right now, people want the truth more than the administration just wants to make the subject go away.
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