David McCloskey

The regime did not just go all out and crack down.

And I think what we might be seeing right now is the Iranian regime having taken that lesson to heart and just brutally suppressing the unrest

you know, straight away.

You can have an illegitimate government where many people, you know, despise it, and yet they can still kind of kill their way out of a mess, potentially.

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Well, welcome to The Rest Is Classified.

I'm David McCloskey.

And I'm Gordon Carrera.

And we are starting, Gordon, a two-part series looking at a single question, which I think is very elevated in the public consciousness right now, as we'll talk about.

And that question is, was financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein working for or with an intelligence service?

And

I think we should say right up front a little bit about why we're going to look at this.

And I think the answer, at least, I don't know how the story has resonated in the UK, but in the US, the overall kind of Epstein affair or drama.

has taken on... It has an enormous gravitational pull here at the States.

I can anecdotally say that at every single book event and talk I did this fall, during the Q&A, I got a question about Epstein.