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Just follow the law.
Trump and his DOJ are breaking the law every day that they do not turn over the Epstein files. He should know that since he signed the law into effect.
They refuse to turn over the names because they are all in the Epstein club, one way or the other. It is an international cartel of wealthy men looking to procure young girls for sex. The law has never held them to account for anything, so why should this be any different?
They have no intentions of turning over the names of Epstein's customers. There are just so many documents that they do not have the time to scour them efficiently so they make errors. The only way they can fix that is to take possession of all the files and release none of them until they have been double-checked by the bookkeepers at the FBI.
Republicans should be demanding these files. They were the ones that were so vocal about the child sex-rings. They should have the Republicans walk the line and give up the files.
Kid Berwyn
(23,705 posts)T'is no accident. Before Epstein was an operator, Craig J. Spence was the man with the plan.

by Nick Bryant
Nuke the Messenger, December 13, 2024
Excerpt...
The documentation that Rodriguez salvaged from the escort service on 34th Place was one strand of a vast, tightly woven rug shrouding an enormous pile of dirt. As Rodriguez doggedly tugged on the strand, more and more dirt piled up. After Rodriguez managed to unravel a corner of the rug, he started to uncover the shady exploits of a DC powerbroker named Craig Spence who was in the habit of racking up a monthly $20,000 tab at the raided escort service. Spence had ties to the CIA, blackmail, and Lawrence King of Omaha.
Throughout the 1980s, Spence collected the rich, powerful, and influential with the dexterity of a coin collector amassing rare coins. His parties and seminars boasted journalists Eric Sevareid, Ted Koppel, and William Safire. High-powered politiciansincluding Senators John Glenn of Ohio and Frank Murkowski of Alaskaattended. Former Ambassadors Robert Neumann, Elliott Richardson and James Lilly also came. John Mitchell, the disgraced former Attorney General under Richard Nixon, was a close friend of Spence and a frequent party fixture. Spences soirees also attracted high-ranking military and intelligence officials. In fact, CIA Director William Casey seemed to be particularly fond of Spence and his high-flying get-togethers. Spence once threw a glitzy birthday bash for his friend and right-wing closet homosexual Roy Cohn, and his friend William Casey was one of the guests of honor.
According to Henry Vinson, who ran the escort service on 34th Place Northwest, Casey met with the escorts from his enterprise at the Ritz-Carleton Hotel. After he was nude and splayed on a bed, he had the escorts rub oil over his body as he kissed and fondled them. Casey was old and withered, and the escorts didnt particularly savor their encounters with him. Casey also had erectile dysfunction.
According to interviews conducted by Washington Times reporters, Spence had an eight-foot-long, two-way mirror overlooking his library that gave him a prime vantage point for spying on guests. Bugs were also scattered throughout various nooks and crannies within his house. A Georgetown law professor and longtime friend of Spences remembered being at Spences home and having a conversation with a second friend
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A business associate of Spences told the reporters that Spence delivered him to one of his parties in a limousine; and when he arrived at the party, a number of young men made friendly overtures towards him. I didnt bite; its not my inclination, said the business associate. But he too remarked on Spences predilection for blackmail: He was blackmailing people. He was taping people and blackmailing them.
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https://nickbryantnyc.com/blog/f/nuke-the-messenger
Before Spence, some other fiend of Roy Cohn's ran the operation...

... Who knew what when? In Palo Alto, after Epsteins conviction, he was a guest at a dinner for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden that was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. At the same dinner Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Is money so powerful that it tramples all other considerations? As James Baldwin put it, I cant believe what you say, because I see what you do.
One of the most remarkable moments in Tyrnauers documentary comes near the end, when its no longer possible to pretend that Cohn isnt a liar and a fraud, when its no longer possible to deny that he lacks both shame and conscience. When Cohn was about to be disbarred in 1986 for defrauding his clients and for taking advantage of a dying and incompetent man, character witnesses began to emerge. There were letters to the court from William F. Buckley Jr., Barbara Walters, William Safire, and, of course, Trump, who wrote that Cohn has been extremely loyal and extremely honest. Were Cohns partieswas his protectionreally that good?...
Source: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29130905/roy-cohn-documentary-wheres-my-roy-cohn/
Tradition, blackmail.
