
In an interview with Associated Press, US Attorney General William Barr put all conspiracy theories to rest once and for all by assuring the world that alleged sex trafficker and alleged billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s death was simply the result of a very, very, very long series of unfortunate coincidences.
“I can understand people who immediately, whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups,” Barr told AP on Thursday.
This perfect storm of unlucky oopsies include Epstein being taken off suicide watch not long after a previous suicide attempt and shortly before his successful suicide, suggestions that the first attempt may have actually been an assault via attempted strangulation inflicted by someone else, two security guards simultaneously falling asleep on the job when they were supposed to be checking on Epstein, one of those guards not even being an actual security guard, security footage of two cameras outside Epstein’s cell being unusable due to a mysterious technical glitch, at least eight Bureau of Prisons officials knowing Epstein wasn’t meant to be left alone in his cell and leaving him alone in his cell anyway, Epstein’s cellmate being transferred out of their shared space the day before Epstein’s death, Epstein signing a will two days before his death, unexplained injuries on Epstein’s wrists and shoulder reported by his family after the autopsy, and a forensic expert who examined Epstein’s body claiming that his injuries were more consistent with homicide than suicide.
In a new interview, Attorney General William Barr said Jeffrey Epstein's suicide resulted from "a perfect storm of screw-ups" and that evidence ultimately shows he hanged himselfhttps://t.co/lhCxD16q4Q
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 22, 2019
“The attorney general also sought to dampen conspiracy theories by people who have questioned whether Epstein really took his own life, saying the evidence proves Epstein killed himself,” AP reports. “He added that he personally reviewed security footage that confirmed that no one entered the area where Epstein was housed on the night he died.”
Well if reporting that he’s reviewed footage which we were previously told didn’t exist isn’t enough to dampen those kooky conspiracy theories, I don’t know what is.
So there you have it. The US government says that an intelligence asset with damning information on many powerful individuals did in fact kill himself due to an admittedly bizarre and wildly unlikely series of strange coincidences. I for one have no more questions. Checkmate, conspiracy theorists.
“Mr. Epstein’s death in August at a federal detention center in Manhattan set off a rash of unfounded conspiracy theories on social media that were picked up and repeated by high-profile figures, including Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. No matter their ideology, the refrain of the theories was the same: Something did not add up,” says The New York Times in its report Barr’s statements.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s a completely unfounded conspiracy theory to believe that someone with ties to powerful institutions and individuals might be murdered in a way that was made to look like a suicide. We don’t live in a world where opaque organizations do evil things in secret, we live in a world where the government is always our friend and the TV would never lie to us. I’m glad these comments made by Barr (whose father in another strange coincidence gave Epstein his first job) have at long last struck a fatal blow to anyone who would doubt the beneficent hand of our beloved institutions.
Barr said evidence proves Epstein killed himself.
He added that he personally reviewed security footage that confirmed that no one entered the area where Epstein was housed on the night he died. https://t.co/CTica7rhhm
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) November 22, 2019
It’s hard to imagine what more the US government and its allied political/media class could possibly do to quell conspiracy theories that now have Hollywood celebrities clamoring for government internet censorship. I guess if they really, really wanted to dampen conspiracy theories, there are a few more extremely drastic steps that could be taken. Steps like not lying all the time. And maybe not hiding immense amounts of information about what the most powerful institutions in the world are doing behind thick walls of government opacity. And maybe cease promoting conspiracies themselves, as with Russiagate. And maybe stop secretly doing depraved things. And maybe stop engaging in conspiracies.
Pretty sure Barr’s assurances will be enough to do the trick, though.
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Arem17 / November 23, 2019
IMO, Barr just destroyed his credibility with me. Then again, what is “credibility” any more? . .
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Lloyd / November 23, 2019
This particular comment is of course a largely stolen work of fiction… but since we can’t believe anything anymore, this fact doesn’t matter in the least. Another blue pill anyone? A quick examination of Barr’s resume shows he is obviously a long time bureaucrat swamp critter. Yet Barr is now charged with investigating the D.C. swamp due some outrageously illegal, unconstitutional and treasonous activities of his fellow swamp critters having been exposed? This whole cast of characters long associated with running and preserving the status quo of our nation’s Executive Branch are quite evidently “blood oath” (to use the Newt Gingrich phrase) secret society members which might call themselves something like the “Swamp Critter Associates Brotherhood” (“SCAB”) since both HYDRA and SPECTRE are already taken. SCAB historically transcends any religious or political affiliations while specializing in lies, dirty tricks, blackmail, extortion, murder, etc. to build and maintain their omnipresent power. FBI files, anyone? These guys have actually run things in D.C. since at least the time of J. Edgar Hoover’s reign. They created the term “Continuity of Government” and then made the practice thereof quite subjective with first, nay all consideration given to the vested interests involved by controlling the political parties in their own special way (see above). Has there yet been any actual historical insider bureaucrats or politicians get arrested or go to jail as a result of all this “Dump Trump” stuff? Don’t hold your breath, IMHO it’s all for show. It seems that only “hangers on”, AKA camp followers – those lacking blood oath status have suffered any actual “legal” wrath regardless of some very well known serious transgressions by many of the aforementioned insiders. All political power resides with those who can selectively choose which laws to actually enforce or which persons to actually prosecute – whether or not any truth is involved in such process. Liberty and Justice for all? Interesting concepts apparently now regarded as quaint and naive. At what point will the increasingly rare, but still very interesting cosmic concepts of actual Righteousness, Justice and Karma start kicking in some doors of their own? Light a candle, pop some popcorn, turn on the “news”, and pop another blue pill. This is a work of fiction. I’d reserve all rights thereto, but I don’t really have any… so there.
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Khatika / November 23, 2019
If you believe Epsrien killed himself I have some swampland for sale that is scheduled to be prime oceanfront in 12 years when the ocean rises from climate change.
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pretzelattack / November 23, 2019
are there a couple of hundred years of science supporting that epstein killed himself? cause i’m not aware of any.
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Bruce / November 23, 2019
“Checkmate, conspiracy theorists.” ;^)
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Levi Tate / November 23, 2019
Have been waiting and waiting for IG Horowitz to release his report, but have been especially excited about the work of John Durham. **However**, John Durham works for William Barr and this Epstein Barr episode does not bode well.
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The cynic in me has never expected that enough of the truth would come out to see players like John Brennan, James Comey, Loretta Lynch (won’t even name Hillary Clinton – no way is she getting her dues)
go to jail. Certainly, Democrats, no matter how much is revealed, will never be slapped out of their McCarthyist delusions, they are too far gone.
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I am prepared to be disappointed. This is the USofA after all. Americans don’t get to know what really happened — JFK assassination; attack upon the USS Liberty; 9/11; 2003 invasion of Iraq; killing of Bin Laden; etc, etc
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James B / November 23, 2019
Maybe consider Epstein’s suicide was a mercy killing: Like: “Please… help me…You dam-well know that there’s no fucking way you can protect me from certain angry prisoners who will torture me endlessly to tell all the names of those who I hooked up with child prostitutes. Please,… Im begging you… give me an opertunity to kill myself!!!! ” So it was arrainged. No coinsidences.
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James B / November 23, 2019
Justice delayed is justice denied, they say. It seems to me, that the laws are written such that the worste of the worste of henious felons escape ever being even charged, by deflecting the hatred of their heniousness upon other lesser criminals that they throw under the buss. The good news is, the house of cards is falling down like london bridges falling down, as the minnions are discovering that there is little to no chance of such a thing as ca$h retirement from faithfully serving their cruel devil masters. Only the illusion of it. Their best chance of escape from hell is to pay the pied piper and confess their crimes or be eaten alive by the rats and snakes running down the slippery slopes and over the cliffts !
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Jonathan H Seeley / November 23, 2019
Epstein, Barr? Where have I heard this before?
“Epstein Barr’s Disease is characterized by long bouts of debilitating exhaustion, general body aches and severe susceptibility to infection, Epstein Barr’s Disease is also commonly misdiagnosed as a psychosomatic or depression disorder, and initially treated by prescription of anti-depressant medication.” -health guide info.com.
I get this disease every time I think about the oligarchy..
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bj / November 23, 2019
Some viruses just linger on forever… or hide in remission till opportune times arrive.
The only insulation from today’s madness is being brain dead…
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Trekker / November 23, 2019
People like Barr keep on throwing out the most outlandish “explanations” for events because in their insulated world of bureaucratic procedure and “evidence” they believe they have muddied the water sufficiently that nothing can be positively proved against them.
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tomo / November 23, 2019
I think it says on Epstien’s Wikipedia page that it was Barr’s father who got Epstein his first job as a teacher in a school I think in Florida where he was the principal.
there is a connection between these 2
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Petitio Postulante / November 23, 2019
Lets not forget investigative journalist. Whitney Webbs excellent work in this four part series. As you say Caitlin, whenever Trumps minions embrace Imperial Orthodoxy they are embraced by the corporate media, and at no other time.
20/7/19
The Mob Intelligence Services & Elite Pedophilia -Whitney Webb Pt 1
https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/?utm_source=Stay+Informed%3A+Sign+Up+For+Our+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ab728b009a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_17_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_51e062931b-ab728b009a-108678133
26/7/19
Elite Blackmailer Roy Cohn and the MegaGroup- Whitney Webb pt 2
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51999.htm
10/8/19
Epstein Israeli Intelligence & the Mega Group Whitney Webb pt 3
https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
26/8/19
Epstein,BCCI, Iran Contra, LE Cercle, Clinton- Whitney Webb pt 4
https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/261455/?utm_source=Stay+Informed%3A+Sign+Up+For+Our+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7bbe5bdb43-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_17_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_51e062931b-7bbe5bdb43-108678133
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Leif Sachs / November 23, 2019
“a perfect storm of screw-ups”
Interesting use of the word “perfect” here. Not an unfortunate storm of screw-ups because it will prevent justice from being done. No, a perfect one. As in perfectly convenient for all the members of the elite who were implicated in Epstein’s sordidness.
Back in the early 1970s when Epstein was still a nobody, he got his first break when AG William Barr’s father Donald Barr hired him to teach at the prestigious Dalton school, despite Epstein having no teaching qualifications.
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Andreas / November 23, 2019
A long, long, long long series of unfortunate coincidences…
Just like at 9/11….
Me smells a rat.
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GaryS / November 23, 2019
Ok, I’m very busy right now and can’t get to the article I would like to produce. I’m not sure where Caitlin is going with this article–but for Barr to suggest that Epstein has been eliminated–specifically in the NYC Prison–is not a good sign.
Please read the following article–which states that the deceased was never officially identified, i.e., there was no official identification of the man–the cadaver–or the digital representation– of the man purported to be Jefferey Epstein: https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/11/epstein-is-alive-part-2-no-dna-test/
Epstein [and company] were involved in a “business” much more sinister than trafficking wayward teenagers. Epstein was a wildcatter–engaging in a business which the main stream [Hippa, etc.] has now entered: Human harvesting.
That’s why there is silence around his disappearance: No one wants to be the whistle blower on this one–because it will bring the house down! Everybody–who’s anybody– is in the know–of course–including Trump!
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Bryan Hemming / November 23, 2019
On July 8 this year Barr recused himself from the prosecution of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for sex trafficking on the grounds that “… one of the law firms [Kirkland & Ellis] that represented Epstein long ago was a firm that I subsequently joined for a period of time.” Not so long ago, Bill.
William Barr joined Kirkland & Ellis in 2009. The previous year the United States’ largest law firm had represented Epstein when he was found guilty of soliciting sex with an underage girl in 2008. The verdict soon went sour when a sweet deal was reached between Alexander Acosta, who was the Miami U.S. attorney at the time, and Kirkland & Ellis senior partner Jay Lefkowitz, along with colleagues Kenneth Starr, Gerald Lefcourt, and Alan Dershowitz, who just happened to be a close acquaintance of Epstein.
Epstein’s legal team accepted just 18 months in a county jail, on condition the convicted sex offender could be released each morning to spend all day unsupervised with his feet up on the desk of his downtown office like he usually did. Nice work if you can get it. And Epstein could.
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foster goodwill / November 23, 2019
The Government and industry funded misinformation is horrendous. Two recent big examples are their war of words against Venezuala and Bolivia. They have influenced all the major media including the Guardian to promote their foreign policy agenda, with misinformation up the wazoo. Here is a link to the travesties they are supporting in Bolivia recently, hiding the fact of the coup and the atrocities that followed there.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/22/theyre-killing-us-dogs-massacre-bolivia-and-plea-help?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email
Please sign the petition linked on the last paragraph of the article,to help avert more massacres.
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Jim KABLE / November 23, 2019
Absolutely – of course no conspiracy! 100% trustworthy US Attorney-General – (has there ever been one so trustworthy?)! Brilliant – again – thanks Caitlin. Looking forward to Ronan FARROW’s further investigation – into links Barr has with the UK/Trump (of course) and Israeli Black Cube psyops – “legal” manipulations and machinations – on and on! Please keep us up-to-date!
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Jason / November 23, 2019
Ah, until I read the comments, I hadn’t noticed that today is the anniversary of the day the Deep State killed the President in Dallas.
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I’d say American democracy died 56 years ago, but it was already dead. That was just the public funeral.
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Jason / November 23, 2019
As usual, you can expect the corporate/intelligence-agency media to be very, very quiet on the real powerful people that Epstein had dealings and information with. And no, I am not talking about an old ex-president or a useless prince (is there any other kind?)
Pam and Russ Martens on their WallStreetOnParade blog did some digging into Epstein’s dealings. Epstein was very closely tied into the big banks on Wall St. He got favorable inside information on IPO’s, and chances to buy in before the public. These were basically sure bet money makers that were rigged to go up big on the first day of public sales. Epstein got some huge revolving lines of credit. IIRC, one of his companies had a couple of hundred million in assets, but tens of billions in lines of credit. Just try to go into your bank and try to get them to give you the same deal. Epstein was clearly treated as a close friend by these banks.
Epstein was tied up with some very powerful people. But not the sort you see on the cover of People magazine. The more quiet types who prefer to keep their affairs out of the spotlight. People powerful enough that anyone from the Clintons to the state of Israel would jump when they say jump. If anyone was getting nervous about the notion of Epstein starting to talk, its likely these people. And they certainly had the resources available to silence Epstein. After all, if you control trillions of dollars and can literally crash national economies when you desire, what’s bribing a handful of prison guards in the most corrupt nation on the planet?
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A / November 23, 2019
Other famous suicides:
John Lennon
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Antonin Scalia
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joseph mirzoeff / November 23, 2019
ken lay
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Mary / November 23, 2019
THIS is the most relevant, because in all this talk no one has yet pointed out the big question whether Epstein is in fact dead.
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bj / November 23, 2019
I doubt he is dead… but he may wish he was at times.
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cutthecord / November 23, 2019
anyone saw epstein’s cold dead body? anyone with no vested interest in this? i didn’t think so. epstein must have had insurance policies, wouldn’t you? no revelation so far, that means he’s alive and well. the paymasters do not want their operatives (like epstein) to think that they (the operatives) are disposable either. 2 + 2 = 4.
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cooper / November 23, 2019
…who saw osama bin laden’s body?…wasn’t it just dumped in the ocean?…
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Nancy Parsons / November 23, 2019
Fwiw, Epstein was a convicted, not alleged sex trafficker. His billionaire status is still alleged.
Great article, thank you as always for your work.
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Nancy Parsons / November 23, 2019
For the record, and for what it’s worth, Epstein was a convicted, not alleged, sex trafficker. The status of his billionaire-ship is still alleged.
Loved your article. Were your subject less painful, I would have laughed the whole way through.
Thanks, as always
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Shannon / November 23, 2019
Not a fan of David Icke’s climate change lizard stuff, but on conspiracy research, he’s right on the money when he says that control of the narrative is what they are after, just as you say Caitlin, and that when they have to knock someone like Epstein off, the persons in charge of the investigation are the ones who want to control what gets out and what the message is, and that’s usually who has the most to cover up. So scrutinize Barr and his work to control the spin factory.
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Brett / November 23, 2019
Ah, you finally expose your weak spot. Facebook and Twitter and your other funding sources. Your Facebook and other such accounts are off limits. You know that Facebook is part of the NSA and you know that the internet is a hive of scum and villainy. No big deal, when we take down the current regime and re-nationalize the internet, you’ll be the first invited back. Of course Facebook and Twitter will be gone and you won’t be able to Capitalize on your writings, so you’ll need to apply for work based on qualifications. Being Aussie won’t do you any good.
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Roy / November 23, 2019
LOL. Very good sarcasm. Loved it! Thank you! Keep it up!
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ron campbell / November 23, 2019
In my 75 years of life I have had to deal with all kinds of people both good and bad; hard core politicians are by far the most slimy because they are devoid of any ethics or morality. They are Satan personified. Never believe anything that they tell you.
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radkelt / November 23, 2019
I remember being astounded that Epstein was visited in his cell several times by
…here is where the old grey matter falters .. could it have been Barr?, Anyone out there
able to supply the mysterious visitor’s name?
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Katy / November 23, 2019
Blue Velvet
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Katy / November 23, 2019
Irony is not lost that Barr proclaims this on November 22 for he is the heir of the CIA coup and is clearly the perpetrator of the Epstein murder.
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Gezzah Potts / November 23, 2019
Yeah, and I believe in the tooth fairy. This is as predictable as sliced bread.
Where is Ghislaine Maxwell by the way? Why hasn’t Ms Maxwell been questioned?
Or is she being protected by ‘powerful figures’ shall we say.
And Julian Assange continues languishing in Belmarsh while arch war criminals Tony Blair, George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld just to name a few walk around free as birds making lots of loot.
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Jim KABLE / November 23, 2019
Let me mention John “Dubya” Howard of Australia here and his then Foreign Minister Alexander Downer of Australia as others of that criminal gang who destroyed Iraq and did nothing much good in Afghanistan except expend lives and money to vested interest WMD companies and shareholders!
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Gezzah Potts / November 23, 2019
Thanks Jim. And the vile slime have been resucicated by ABC in recent years as…. distinguished elder statesmen.
Downer was on, I think, The Drum about a week ago talking about the Hong Kong protests.
I have as much contempt for ABC and SBS as I do for The Guardian and The Age. They are mouthpieces for the Empire and for imperialism.
I could only manage abt 3 mins before my stomach started churning.
Yeah… I do try and Boycott all MSM.
They all take their orders from Washington. There is no ‘alliance’ (as in equal partners). They are puppets.
Been in Aussie approaching 16 years.
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Joseph Olson / November 23, 2019
JFK died mysteriously 56 years ago from a series of coincidences, where nine shots were fired from six sniper locations. His autopsy showed four entry wounds, two from in back, one in the throat and one in the right front temple, a fragmentary round that blew his skull off. The Connelly magic bullet, Elm Street curb richoch hitting three people and bullet in the limo windshield frame all came from a lone gunman, who was accidentally killed in the police station by a known mobster. If people would just stop believing in CONSPIRACIES they would all go away.
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Jupiter / November 23, 2019
Randy Andy can breathe a sigh of relief for the time being unless there’s evidence to surface ! …
Internet censorship well they could do the Iranian government way & shut it down but I’m sure the good ole USA would prefer a smoke and mirrors show that way they still gather your interest and make a profit …
Mike Pompeo says he’s with the Iranian people and asked them to send him video’s of what the Iranian government is doing to the population , does this also include what the Bolivian so called government is doing to their people
Julian Who
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