Why no investigation of the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail operation? (PETITION)
Mark Crispin Miller
Jeffrey Epstein: Blackmail American Style
FEB 16, 2020 —
Epstein's blackmail enterprise has been outed in the mainstream media, but its reality has failed to launch a full scale investigation by the media or the government.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/the-mystery-of-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-enabler
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-trump.html
Sexual, political blackmail is a time-honored tradition in America, but Americans are extremely naive about its reality. The husband of Alexander Hamilton’s 23-year-old mistress financially extorted Hamilton to ensure that his affair remained surreptitious.[1] A muckraking journalist exposed Hamilton’s affair.[2] Hamilton and Jefferson were antagonists, and the muckraker who outed Hamilton’s extramarital affair felt that Jefferson owed him a political appointment when Jefferson became president.[3] But Jefferson declined, and the muckraker disseminated news about Jefferson’s affair with one of his slaves.[4]
In the previous 18 years, the following U.S. congressmen—senators and representatives—have been entangled in sexual scandals: Gary Condit, (D-CA),[5] Ed Schrock, (R-VA),[6] Steven C. LaTourette (R-OH),[7] David Dreier (R-CA),[8] Don Sherwood, (R-PA),[9] Mark Foley, (R-FL),[10] David Vitter (R-LA),[11] Larry Craig (R-ID),[12] Tim Mahoney, (D-FL),[13] Vito Fossella (R-NY),[14] John Edwards (D-NC),[15] John Ensign (R-NV),[16] Chip Pickering (R-MS),[17] Eric Massa (D-NY),[18] Mark Souder, (R-IN),[19] Christopher Lee (R-NY),[20] Anthony Weiner (D-NY),[21] Scott DesJarlais (R-TN),[22] David Wu (D-OR),[23] Vance McAllister (R-LA),[24] Blake Farenthold (R-TX),[25] Dennis Hastert, (R-IL),[26] Tim Murphy (R-PA),[27] Al Franken (D-MN),[28] Joe Barton, (R-TX),[29] Trent Franks (R-AZ),[30] John Conyers (D-MI)[31] and, last but probably not least, Pat Meehan (R-PA).[32]
The aforementioned names are merely the U.S. representatives and senators whose sexcapades have pierced the mainstream media. The majority of Americans are probably cognizant of Hollywood Babylon, but Sodom and Gomorrah on the Potomac seems to be largely overlooked. I’ll comment on two of the formerly esteemed men that I’ve cited, and they should give the reader an idea of the relative ease a third party would have compromising a politician and also of the mind-boggling risks politicians will take to satiate their lusts.
Former U.S. Senator Larry Craig was in Washington, D.C. as a congressman for more than 25 years.[33] During his tenures as a U.S. representative and a senator, his voting record for gay-rights legislation was deplorable, even though he used the services of a gay escort service.[34] Craig was an unrepentant conservative, so, if his homosexual endeavors were exposed, his political career would ignominiously crash and burn.
But, nonetheless, Craig was arrested for lewd conduct in a restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport: He propositioned an undercover police officer in a bathroom stall.[35] Craig was brazenly using the prostitutes of a gay escort service and attempting gay liaisons in public restrooms: He would’ve been nearly effortless blackmail fodder. A teenager with a smart phone, participating in an after school project, probably could’ve compromised Craig.
Republican Dennis Hastert was the former Speaker of House from 1999 to 2007.[36] During those years, he was constitutionally the third most powerful man in the country, and he established a reputation in the House as being a strong-arm specialist.[37] Hastert, however, had concealed pedophilic predations for decades throughout his meteoric political ascent.[38] As the revelations about Hastert became increasingly sordid, and the story incited a media feeding frenzy, a federal judge, siding with federal prosecutors, ruled that discovery in the case would not be made public.[39] Then, suddenly, the news about Hastert’s predatory behavior quickly evaporated.
Hastert’s illicit sex with minors stunned a nation. But in a 2006 investigation, the House Ethics Committee ruled that Hastert and other Republicans were "willfully ignorant" for months in their response to recurring warnings that U.S. Representative Mark Foley was preying on teenage, congressional male pages.[40] In 2009, an F.B.I. whistleblower testified during a deposition that the F.B.I. was cognizant of Hastert visiting a Chicago townhouse for “certain not very morally accepted activities” during his speakership.[41] If the whistleblower’s revelations are true, then F.B.I. personnel were aware of Hastert’s shadow life, but, yet, he was publicly unscathed by it during his years as Speaker of the House.
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