Guest Post by Caitlin Johnstone
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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Epstine did not kill himself…the AG is lying, or has been totally brainwashed. If he saw proof on video then that video needs to be shown to the American people…otherwise Epstine did not kill himself.
Or is Epstein still alive and they are reaffirming his death by continuing to perpetrate the charade?
I believe this is the most likely scenario.
Agreed.
He didn’t say he saw “proof” he did see the footage apparently documenting that no person entered Epstein’s cell…a very different thing. Doctored footage….not all that hard as we will never see the original.
It said that he said he saw footage showing that no one entered “the area”. That footage could have come from the outer perimeter and the “broken” cameras were probably more directly aimed at Epstein’s cell. You’re right, though, that footage could have been doctored. Epstein almost certainly was murdered. Probably by the CIA (for whom he had worked), with the involvement of others likely. I don’t think he’s alive. Too much effort to do that and no reason to leave him alive. He’d outlived his usefulness.
When one sacrifices a minion , it tries the loyalty of the rest of the minions.
In the book Rising Sun by Michael Crichton ( 1992 ) video tapes were doctored to hide a murderer and frame someone else.
This is nothing new, see Steven Paddock.
It was convenient with the photo of the dead guy on the gurney not covered up, and the quick burial by someone that nobody even seems to know picking up the “body”.
Again, I’m waiting for that video with time and dates intact.
Barr as a kid. As believable then as he is now.
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You’ll shoot your eye out…
Thanks TN. I’ll take a laugh anywhere I can get it.
I’m going fishing today instead of work.
Carry on..
Barr is either a moron or he’s in on the scam.
Trump’s hiring practices are a marvel. They should be studied for what not to do.
He sure has made some coincidentally poor choices.
A truly astonishing series of coincidences.
Forget it, Jake.
That’s why the population needs to be armed and dangerous and the fat slob police need to disappear. It’s the police that are the front line for keeping the political class in power.
Soon, I expect the average person to say ‘enough’ and defy ‘authority’. Cops will disappear like fart gas as they realize that it’s pay back time once the SHTF.
Inspector general’s ‘investigate the investigators’ report will NOT condemn Comey and Strzok
BTW – the point is this: They are known by their actions. And if Barr and Horowitz (and even Trump) end up being custodians for their Deep State masters, then they are, also, canaries in the coal mine. Or, rather, indicators of a swamp far deeper and more foul than most people ever imagined.
Hope springs eternal, but reality is a bitch. That’s all I’m saying over here.
Barr isn’t a custodian for Deep State masters, because he is himself a Deep State master. Trump is a custodian for his Deep State masters (including Barr). I don’t know about Horowitz. I wonder what excuse the Trumptards and Q-tards are going to come up with now to try to convince everyone that Trump is still playing 23-dimensional chess, and to keep trusting the plan.
Journalists and Judicial Watch have found more than the DOJ. Sounds like the DOJ is worthless. Get rid of the lot of them.
It doesn’t really matter because previous reports have had criminal referrals, but not a single indictment was sought.
This doesn’t pass the smell test.
This only demonstrates how low is THEIR opinion of the murican public.
We once again turn to Father Carlin:
We do have people who are ready to step in….but ballot access restrictions, campaign finance restrictions, the media, the leadership of the two major political parties, and so much more….ensure that they never make it to the ballot or never have a chance to get their message out, or never have a chance for their message to be taken seriously.
Both parties are horrible. And they keep a grip on who can be heard. The founding fathers themselves said parties (factions) would be the worst thing for this country.
He backs me up on no term limits, because if you do happen to get a good one, you want to keep them in as long as possible. The terrible ones are always going to be there because people are idiots and on the take themselves. The education system has purposely “uneducated” the American public so the wool can be pulled over their eyes and scumbags can get into office. Honest people, in most cases, have no intention of running for office amid the corruption.
I haven’t voted since they screwed Ron Paul out of the nomination and don’t plan to because it’s all rigged. By not voting, I don’t contribute to or endorse the corrupt system.
Perfect storm ehh ? will that be the excuse when the economy implodes, WW3 ,and or civil war starts ?
The best part, if this can be explained by incompetence of the bureaucracy, the bureaucracy will do it again and again, waking more people up every time. “Epstein didn’t kill himself” Goverment incompetence did.
The problem is everyone knows it’s not government incompetence. They did their job well.
The problem is their explanation has holes in it and nobody is buying it. The government is more competent than you’ve been led to believe. They always get their man. Doing their actual jobs is another issue all together.
The most surprising thing about this article is that it seems to be real and not from the Babylon Bee.
Bob Barr: supervised the whole gun/drug running in Mena, Arkansas for William Casey. Part of the Deep State that helped smooth the path to power for Billy Clinton, the two-bit politician from Arkansas. Yeah, that Bob Barr. He probably organized the whole op to silence Epstein, yet all these Trumptards believe he is going to drain the swamp. Give me a fucking break!
Your comment is correct, but it is actually Bill Barr, not Bob Barr. Bob Barr is the former Republican, sometimes wanna-be Libertarian, congressman from Georgia. I sometimes make the same mistake.
Exactly right. Barr met with Bubba when he was governor and was a participant on the Mena operation. He told Clinton then that he (Barr) was an emissary of Wm Casey (Reagan’s CIA Director) and that Casey wanted him to be his ‘fair haired’ boy-now grooming him for the Oval Office. He’s a swamp rat of the most malodorous kind.
According to George Webb, Durham isn’t the bulldog he’s made out to be (in fact he’s a wuss) and Barr is, shall we say, compromised. Don’t expect much from either.
Coincidences coinciding with collusion resulting in death.
The “perfect storm of screw-ups” is a tried-and-true excuse for them to cover up their crimes, just like 9/11. And they will keep using it as long as the majority of the public falls for it, which they always do.
Their screw ups are actually coverups.
Epstein is back in israel, has undergone cosmetic surgery, and living under an assumed name. Some poor sap prisoner without any relatives or family ties, similar in build and appearance to epstein “took one for the team” and was murdered, making it look as if epstein was killed. The body rolled out of the prison was not epstein. I’ll bet that the “medical examiner” did not extract any DNA in order to confirm epstein’s identity.
There are too many prominent members of “society” (of the deep state”) that cannot have their idiosyncrasies and foibles exposed, so “the fix is in”.
I’m glad he cleared that up. Now off to buy my shirt.
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You know, a true custodian of the authority of The State, loyalty to the Constitution, and even a scintilla of true character would admit that he is far out of his depth and tender his immediate resignation, but then only after the wholesale firing of every single person in the chain of custody over Epstein, from the janitor at Rikers to his second in command.
Of course that will never happen.
We are expected to accept their complete failure to do their jobs properly as if it were business as usual. If anyone in any business operated in such a fashion they would be doing doing hard time, these guys just keep getting bigger budgets, more responsibility, and we have to give up even more liberties in response the their incompetence.
That is if you believe this steaming pile of horseshit of an excuse.
Actually, I’ve got more questions than answers at this point.
Barr is essentially a ‘Deep State’ man albeit one of the more honest ones. He is getting ready to clean up the corruption that led to Russiagate etc. but Epstein is above his pay grade. He’s not going to go there….and I get that although I wish he would.
Yazzz, yazz… Mr. Barr has spoken. Cleahhhly Mr. Epstein met with no foul play. Mistahhh Bahhh is a member of very long standing and high status and respect in the political and administrative apparatus of the federal government.
There really is a deep state. It is winning, bigly. And, Epstein didn’t kill himself. Change my mind.