For those who don't want to read the whole thing, on the question we have been especially interested in -- whether there were intelligence ties, and if so to whose agency -- the reporter interviewed is agnostic. She says she is aware of the theories, but has no facts herself on which to base any reporting. They do mention Maxwell's father's ties to Israeli intelligence and Mossad, so they aren't trying to hide from that, but there just isn't enough information in public for reporting -- just for speculation of the sort we have been doing.
The NYT Validates MAGA
I'm beginning to suspect that there may be something to the President's charge that at least part of the Epstein story is a scam; and the reason I think so is that the whole of the media is piling onto it the way they have done with other Uniparty-backed scams. Today, for what I think is the first time ever, the New York Times published a piece asserting that MAGA has a valid complaint about something.
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Over at Ann Althouse, she linked a current Daily Mail story about a similar letter in the same book supposedly penned by Bill Clinton. "Warm and gushing" this time, not bawdy. I suppose to some this might make the Trump letter more plausible. An alternate take might be that it makes Trumps letter more defensible, especially if the Clintons don't object as much as Trump did.
Until Trump did the volte face on the Epstein file he had pretty well immunized himself from Epstein disclosures. I am still of the opinion that after 10 years we've got a pretty good idea of what is available for release. If there were any truly awful revelations about Trump in the Epstein trove there would have been no need to push E Jane Carrol's boudoir fantasies, and he wouldn't have even floated the idea of opening the files. A couple commenters at Althouse floated the idea that this might be an old forgery, especially if it was some sort of parody creation.
My suspicions are that Epstein may have had some tangential intelligence connections but is more likely to have been exaggerating them for effect, and nobody who really knows anything is going to talk about it either way, other than to deny them.
"...to push E Jane Carrol's boudoir fantasies..."
In the same vein, and for the same reasons, her biography of Hunter S. Thompson is pretty good. It was the right mode for writing about him.
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