Don't Mess With the Librarians: About that Mar-A-Lago Raid… and that "Epstein-Connected" Judge
How a legitimate investigation is being used by the dishonest press.
Miranda Devine is a very bad woman but she’s doing a great job at sowing fear, uncertainty, and doubt. And so here she is pronouncing on the FBI raid at Mar-A-Lago.
Who is she? And why is she interfering in our politics? She is quite literally a bully, having once been forced, à la Alex Jones, to apologize for mocking a child with achondroplasia dwarfism ahead of a defamation settlement.
Devine is a propagandist, first and foremost.
Indeed the Australian-born commentator works for Murdoch’s companies — most recently Fox News — and she authored the book, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide (2021). You might recall Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp got $100 million from the Bank of China as part of a $1.25B package and that he had hitherto been married to a Chinese spy — Wendi Deng. (Interestingly Deng purportedly introduced Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.)
These Chinese things should be brought up whenever the focus is on Fox or really on the Murdoch properties generally.
We’ve already discussed Hunter Biden being a confidential informant for the FBI and how so many of the people he’s worked with have wound up in jail. What’s more, the US attorney overseeing the Biden tax case is a Trump appointee, David Weiss, who has been permitted to stay on to complete the probe of the President’s son. Now Republicans have made a big fuss over Timothy Thimbault’s social media posts but Thimbault didn’t supervise the Delaware investigation.
In other words, the Hunter Biden investigation isn’t ever going to turn up anything interesting. As I have said before, you really can’t do that much blow or sleep with that many whores without Uncle Sam footing at least some of the bill. You might cynically believe, as I do, that this attempt to “get Hunter” is really just about scoring political points and I don’t think you’d be far off the mark.
The more interesting question, I think, is how Hunter’s laptop was hacked and who hacked it, and who went to all the trouble to drop a parallel constructed story involving a blind MacBook specialist in Delaware I couldn’t say.
Sure, bits of the laptop are undoubtedly right but the speciality of other countries is in creating “black propaganda.” What’s that? That’s material you splice in to discredit your target still further. Who knows what’s real or what’s fake?
Say you had Hunter Biden’s iCloud. What you’d do is you’d create a facsimile of all its content. That content could then be used against Hunter and by extension the Biden family. You’d splice in a thing or two. We’d see more evidence for the ten percent for the Big Guy in Joe Biden’s personal life. Or that Hunter turned over a lot of money to his father. Surely there’d be some evidence of this.
The claims that Biden was sexually inappropriate with his daughter would find more foundation elsewhere. As far as we can tell they haven’t really.
Now I’m going to say something mighty unpopular.
I knew Jeffrey Epstein and he was not the monster with which his name has become synonymous. To be sure I’m not excusing the human trafficking but these sorts of things are par for the course among a certain type of operative which makes them no less horrific. Many of the young women involved in his operations appear to have been young but not underaged with notable exceptions. He was an intelligence asset and he used whatever means he could to get the information. Nobody should countenance these kind of tactics but it does seem as if he is being scapegoated for a lot of different peoples’ sins. For what it’s worth, I’ve more or less become even more disturbed by Epstein simply because I think that there are lots of these operations running at any given time.
Yes, Epstein was likely a spy as well as a confidential informant for the FBI and the CIA and Mossad and who knows who else. Like his predecessor Robert Maxwell — “the bouncing Czech” — he bounced around between organized crime and the intelligence services. In a way, his middle-manning became a problem and led to his downfall once the Likudniks within the Department of Justice wanted to take him out after Epstein’s spymaster, Ehud Barak, entered the second Israeli elections against Bibi Netanyahu. Epstein was clearly turned as a part of his deal in 2008.
The press has focused in particular on Bruce Reinhart, a federal magistrate who once served as an assistant U.S. Attorney. He seems to have dealt mostly with drug matters and some espionage as one does in South Florida.
Reinhart went on to advise some of Epstein’s staff after he left federal employ.
Here’s how Julie Brown of the Miami Herald recounts it:
“On Oct 23, 2007, as federal prosecutors in South Florida were in the midst of tense negotiations to finalize a plea deal with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a senior prosecutor in their office was quietly laying out plans to leave the U.S. attorney’s office after 11 years. “On that date, as emails were flying between Epstein’s lawyers and federal prosecutors, Bruce E. Reinhart, now a federal magistrate, opened a limited liability company in Florida that established what would become his new criminal defense practice.”
How seriously should we take these claims remains to be seen, especially now that Julie K. Brown is being sued by these very same Epstein victims. There are now two lawsuits against her.
In any event Reinhart advised “only Epstein’s pilots; his scheduler, Sarah Kellen; and Nadia Marcinkova, described by some victims as Epstein’s sex slave.”
To read Marcinkova (now Marcinko)’s Wikipedia page is to get a sense of just how complicated the story really is. Is she a spy? Is she a victim? Is she both? Who knows?
In other words, Reinhart coached all the people who could turn on Epstein and Reinhard was a Fed. He donated to CIA men Barack Obama and Jeb Bush.
You work it out. A colleague of Reinhart’ says, “He’s a well-regarded government lawyer and doesn’t have the slightest inclination to act out of politics.” OK then.
Why was a very deep state magistrate signing off on the search of Mar-A-Lago when Trump was up in New York for a deposition? Seems like a total mystery to me, you guys.
The National Archives is a rather marvelous place. These are my people.
Their motto is my motto — “littera scripta manet.” (“The written word remains.”)
Serious nations have serious libraries. To be among the archivists is to love them.
You’ll know I’ve really made it when I have dozens of people on staff to research all manner of questions for me in the National Archives. Lots of gems in there, like this one, I once published about John McCain betraying his country.
This is not to say that it is perfect. This audio was mislabeled John “MacCain” and the material was handed over to me by someone who was likely a foreign spy. Make of that what you will. (Hint: we absolutely have spies at the National Archives. Control a nation’s history and you control the nation. What’s that about the 1619 Project again?)
With the FBI “raid” of Mar-A-Lago for classified documents Donald Trump is learning what so many — Sandy Berger ring a bell? — learned before him: "Don’t fuck with the archivists and certainly don’t mess with classified documents.”
Trump’s biggest failure is to dismiss the nerds in favor of nepotism. If the GOP is to succeed moving forward, it needs to make its mantra “nerds over nepotism.”
Of course there’s a larger question here that no one is looking at.
What if Trump told the Feds where the boxes were?
And what if the raid itself is all fake?
I'm beginning to think that spies aren't particularly smart. I served with a lot of Average IQ Joes in the military. Under the right manager even the lazy and dumb can serve a purpose.
There seem to be two options with Epstein. That he was a lecherous monster implicating powerful politicians and celebrities all around the world...OR he was just another tool of the "intelligence" community that ended up making a lot of noise.
Epstein's trial was a fuckup or a distraction?