Newly released files show how Maria Farmer, who worked for Mr. Epstein in the 1990s, had urged the F.B.I. to investigate him. The case went nowhere for years.

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[–] 162 points 7 months ago (2 children)

1996? When Bubba was potus? I wonder why the FBI ignored it

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  • [–] [S] 73 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Funny thing is that no FBI director has been appointed by a Democrat. Not even Clinton had that kind of control of the FBI.

    Edit: looks like I was wrong about appointments; Clinton did appoint an FBI director who had previously been appointed by Bush to another position. He still didn't have the kind of power over the FBI that would have let him quash an investigation like this

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  • [–] 72 points 7 months ago (77 children)

    The 5th Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh, who was director at the time of the complaint, was literally appointed by Bill Clinton. Furthermore, the 3rd director, William Webster, was appointed by Jimmy Carter, and the 7th director, James Comey, was appointed by Barack Obama.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 7 months ago

    Youre right. He was also previously appointed by Bush. Not exactly a partisan, and the FBI still would gladly have gotten Clinton for this if they'd been aware of his involvement

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 77 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    The NYT, CNN, Fox News, WaPo, etc criticizing the Epstein files is the equivalent of finding a lone roach in your house.

    It's not just one.

    It's a sign of something much, much worse

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  • [–] 51 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    He said the government until now has denied the existence of the Ms. Farmer’s report, and that it was “shameful” that it was kept secret. “There should be a full fledged investigation into every government employee who knew about this document and allowed a narrative to be publicized that it did not exist,” Mr. Edwards said. An internal investigation of the Department of Justice’s handling of the Epstein case, released in 2020, made no mention of Ms. Farmer’s original complaint.

    Absolutely Bonkers

    “There should be a full fledged investigation into every government employee who knew about this document and allowed a narrative to be publicized that it did not exist,”

    And may I add, "and then hang every damn one of them as traitors."

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    "and then hang every damn one of them as traitors."

    Normally, aid agree 100%, being a Traitor is about the lowest form of scum there is, but there is something worse - a pedophile, and they're all pedophiles.

    So hang them as both Traitors AND Pedophiles, and make THAT their permanent legacies.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    And most pedophiles don't do shit, most suffer their entire life with their sexuality but would never hurt a child - those are a different kind and more often than not- not actually pedophiles

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    That doesn't excuse MAGAs. They unapologetically support and provide cover for people they know are pedophiles. That makes them pedophiles.

    If you had a roommate who was bringing home children to molest, and you refused to address it, lied to people about it, provided alibis for the offender, misdirected investigations, etc., guess what? You're a pedophile, too.

    ALL MAGAs are pedophiles. Every last one of them.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Nothing wrong with traitors, our founders were traitors.

    Fuck pedophiles, traitors get judged on a case-by-case basis.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    No, the founding fathers were Patriots, not traitors. A traitor deeply betrays the people around him for his own benefit. Our founding fathers were not traitors, most had never set foot on British soil. They were not British, they were American, part of a British colony, over which they had no control. It is not treason for an oppressed colony to declare their independence.

    On a case by case basis, all MAGAs are Traitors. ALL. It is a basic defining characteristic, just like being a pedophile, or a racist is also a basic MAGA trait.

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  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

    I'm losing my mind. Keep getting banned on reddit because the ban bot's list of unacceptable words keeps growing at an exponential rate.

    Now my comments are dissappearing when I submit them on Lemmy too

    I'm just screaming into the void

    Edit: I now have proof that humans are not reading appeals. I told them off using the most vulgar language I could muster in my appeal

    An hour ago my appeal was approved

    I feel like Morgan Freeman's character "Red" at the end of Shawshank

    I don't really give a shit

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  • [–] 100 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

    Shit piss motherfucker cunt fart tits turd twat cum smegma pussy cock dick pedophile bill Clinton George bush Donald Trump Barack Obama Israel Netanyahu fuck orgy rape kill purple monkey dishwasher fuckstick dipshit fisting gape anal felching Orgy.

    EDIT: yeah you're totally getting censored because you're using inappropriate words. You can't use any inappropriate words on lemmy, that's why it's such a bucket of boiling hot ape shum, what in the corpse-fucking shit is even fucking wrong with this hymen-gnawing world? We can't even fucking cuss!

    I've fucked barn cats with more tact and self awareness than this arbitrary word-based filter, WHERE THE FUCK IS MY SHITEATING FREEDOM?

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    What were you saying? Or what instance were they posted too? I imagine every instance will be a bit different. But I'm curious what could be said about Epstein and co that would get deleted. Only if you were directly calling for someone to attacked for something unproven would I imagine anyone having an issue here

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    [–] 40 points 7 months ago

    And they will still ignore it in 2025.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    So when will they actually release it?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago*

    Probably because he was a CIA asset.

    Look at the mafia guys that murder people and walk free today courtesy of America's witness protection program.

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