ABOARD A US GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT (AP) — Attorney General William Barr said he initially had his own suspicions about financier Jeffrey Epstein’s death while behind bars at one of the most secure jails in America but came to conclude that his suicide was the result of “a perfect storm of screw-ups.”
In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said his concerns were prompted by the numerous irregularities at the Manhattan jail where Epstein was being held. But he said after the FBI and the Justice Department’s inspector general continued to investigate, he realized there were a “series” of mistakes made that gave Epstein the chance to take his own life.
“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 the AP as he flew to Montana for an event.
Barr’s comments come days after two correctional officers who were responsible for guarding the wealthy financier when he died were charged with falsifying prison records. Officers Tova Noel and Michael Thomas are accused of sleeping and browsing the internet — shopping for furniture and motorcycles — instead of watching Epstein, who was supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes.
Epstein took his own life in August while awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused girls as young as 14 and young women in New York and Florida in the early 2000s.
His death cast a spotlight on the federal Bureau of Prisons, which has been plagued by chronic staffing shortages and outbreaks of violence. The indictment unsealed this week against the officers shows a damning glimpse of safety lapses inside a high-security unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.
But the indictment also provided new details that reinforce the idea that, for all the intrigue regarding Epstein and his connections to powerful people, his death was a suicide — as the city’s medical examiner concluded — and possibly preventable.
A lawyer for Thomas, Montell Figgins, said both guards are being “scapegoated.”
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. 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.
Epstein was placed on suicide watch after he was found July 23 on his cell floor with bruises on his neck but was taken off the heightened watch about a week before his death, meaning he was less closely monitored but still supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes. He was required to have a cellmate, but he was left with none after his cellmate was transferred out of the MCC on Aug. 9, the day before his death, the indictment said.
Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell when the guards went to deliver breakfast. One of the guards told a supervisor then that they hadn’t done their 3 a.m. or 5 a.m. rounds, according to the indictment.
The Justice Department is still investigating the circumstances that led to Epstein’s death, including why he wasn’t given a cellmate.
“I think it was important to have a roommate in there with him and we’re looking into why that wasn’t done, and I think every indication is that was a screw-up,” Barr said. “The systems to assure that was done were not followed.”
Epstein’s death ended the possibility of a trial that would have involved prominent figures and sparked widespread anger that he wouldn’t have to answer for the allegations.
Even with his death, federal prosecutors in New York have continued to investigate the allegations against Epstein. Barr, who has vowed to aggressively investigate and bring charges against anyone who may have helped Epstein, said investigators were making good progress in the case.
“They are definitely pushing things along,” Barr said. “I’ll just say there is good progress being made, and I’m hopeful in a relatively short time there will be tangible results.”
EPSTEIN DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF
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And folks are expecting Barr to actually take down the criminals we can plainly identify? Dream on.
Yes, this bodes poorly for taking down the arch criminals in the Obama regime who continue their relentless persecution of the president. . . But then the president appointed Barr, the same Barr who was involved in the Clinton/CIA drug business in Arkansas. If Barr whitewashes the whole Russiagate case–maybe with one or two mid-level suckers charged–some of the blame has to go to Trump himself.
It’s my understanding that Barr’s father hired Epstein at one point. These people are known to each other. The whole episode smells.
There’s proof positive that Barr is Deep State.
End of Q.
All war is deception. It’s the end of nothing.
I was referring to the Barr being an honest man storyline.
It’s one thing for Barr to ignore the Epstein murder out of fear. It’s another to cover for it with this obvious lie. Deeply disheartening.
Right.
Given the patterns emerging over the past couple of years I’m going to guess it’s sort of like the “Sessions did nothing and Trump disliked him narrative.”
Just say’n. Time tells these tales better than snap judgments made on a single piece of evidence.
Edit – I was thinking about this after I responded to you. I think the problem is that we expect players who are fighting corruption to always tell the truth to the public about every detail and that if they don’t that their character is in question.
Is it possible to be of reasonably good character (none of us are perfect) but still deceive in the interest of a greater good?
Nowadays I don’t think it is something that can be avoided. Hindsight is a better indication of character in these situations as it allows us to put the pieces together and get the broader picture in terms of why something was done in the manner it was at the time it was.
With this it is too ealy to tell what the purpose is.
Of course, he could be telling the truth (doubtful but possible). I guess we’ll find out in the weeks and months ahead.
It’s one thing to lie to your enemies, quite another to try and pull the wool over the eyes of the American people. Immoral, unethical or improper behavior when done in the name of justice is twice the crime of someone who is already a transgressor. At least in my book. The Dems and their progressive counterparts can’t betray me because I already know that they consider me to be the enemy. The guy who tells me he’s here to make things right doing it?
Man, that’s just despicable.
Under more ‘normal’ circumstances I’d agree.
The problem is, with regards to a public event like Epstein and as a public servant involved in an information WAR (of which Epstein is but one component), you can’t deceive your enemy without deceiving the public as well. I think it’s a mistake to judge too quickly or to take it personally or as a sign of a lack of character. At least at this stage.
I guess I see the pragmatic side of this. Even if I don’t particularly like it – it is what it is. For now.
You have the patience of a saint. Must be the hunter in you.
What’s the alternative? 🙂
Continue building community, encouraging the discouraged, withdrawing your money from the system, reducing your dependence on the system, sharing your skills and in general just being a good example of not being them.
But then you’re already doing those things so you’re good.
Missed my buck the other day. Beautiful side presentation, stood stock still less than a hundred yards away but it was an uphill shot with nothing behind him. Had to watch him slowly crest the ridge and drop over the backside.
Heart breaker.
I spotted a young buck a few weeks ago and let him go. It was close to dark and I knew where he was living so I thought I’d come back in a few days with my daughter and let her take a crack at him.
We set up in the cut block in the late afternoon and sat and waited. About 30 minutes later we could here a quad motoring on the road below us near where we’d parked. Then it stopped and we could hear a voice say “It’s a 3 point”. And BOOM.
They shot that young buck right our from underneath my kid.
It was shitty but a good lesson for her: You can do everything right and still have some jack ass fuck it up on you.
We’ll get her one next year.
So maybe it’s a Barr head fake and arrests will soon be made. That would be fun. It’s like my dream where Jessica Biel falls deeply in love with me.
Barr is part and parcel of the DC establishment….he’s not going to go against the tide, despite what people hope for.
That reminds me of the Downfall clip where Hitler says that Q advises him to trust Sessions and the generals have to tell Hitler that Sessions put in his resignation papers, that Q is a psyop…
I love some of those Hitler clips. Every now and then those are gold.
Except that they continue to propogate a jew-scripted misrepresentation of his actual character and by extension German WW2 history.
The pre thought crime enterprise didn’t convince you.
Carry on.
Also known as – A Well Planned Operation
Yeah. Kinda like 911. Everybody effed up at the same moment in time.
Funny how that works; especially for the government.
I’m waiting to see that footage, Mr. Barr.
The only screw up is nobody believes the official government narrative. Barr is Deep State too.
So both cameras failed that night but Barr watched the footage and everything was cool?
Okay, Boomer.
They was magic cameras, like imaginary ink. You have to sprinkle lemon juice over them and hold them up to a candle to see the images.
No need for the gratuitous anti-boomer swipe to make your point.
Screw-ups?
This whole disgusting yet revelatory episode will be buried deeper than whale shit in the Puerto Rico Trench as the proceedings against The Man From Queens take top spot in the ‘Murican infotainment circus, the approach of “The Holidays” have the Lumpen busy shopping for TeeVees, and the NFL playoff picture becomes more intense.
Those guards will be consigned as the last and only persons responsible for child sex-slaver to the rich and powerful Epstein’s unfortunate series of events leading to his wonderful and timely death at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Facility.
Thus ends Barr’s credibility.
…because its so easy to believe “the gub’mint” is incompetent. And utterly impossible to image as corrupt and evil.
you meme makers need to make one of a fearful looking barr w/the caption,”epstein didn’t kill himself & barr is afraid that he’ll be next.”
Epstein didn’t kill himself.
…and neither will Mr. Barr.
,,,,and today mark the 56th anniversary of the Deep State assassination of the disobedient POTUS.
All hail Los hermanos Dulles,Frank Fiorini(aka Sturgis) David Sanchez Morales (a resume that includes PB Success)and other Operation 40 Black Ops that define the sneering face of the Company.
William Barr the man responsible for getting pardons for Elliot Abrams and other scumbags involved in Iran Contra; Barr’s father was the headmaster of an elite New York City school that hired college dropout Epstein to teach math and physic
“…responsible for getting pardons for Elliot Abrams and other scumbags…”
…and for covering the verminous Lon Horiuchi and his fellow ATF and FBI scum at Ruby Ridge and Waco.
I love the smell of Barr shit in the morning.
Carry on.
Hear that?
That was the last shred of the government’s legitimacy dying.
there was a shred remaining?
It’s a perfect storm all right – a perfect storm of bullshit.
“epstein’s death was a ‘perfect storm of screw ups'”
actually it seems to have gone off without a hitch. except the story about it being a suicide, no-one anywhere believes that at all, everyone everywhere knows they’re lying.
Epstein Barr is a disease. The United States contracted it long ago.
Epstein-Barr
Is one of the nine known human herpes virus types in the herpes family, and is one of the most common viruses in humans.
Often called the “kissing disease,” Mononucleosis is most commonly caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.
Kiss and don’t tell.
Epstein’s not dead.
BULLSHIT
So Barr was threatened with “suicide” as well….
No one needs to threaten him. That criminal is part of it. And Trump hired him.
Bill, the majority of Americans knew Epstein wasn’t ever going to walk out of that jail alive.
La la la la la la Epstein didn’t kill himself… la la la la la la your credibility’s gone… la la la la la la arkancide’s in the air… puh-leeze!