Tara Palmieri

So there was some stuff that came out in the Epstein files and actually Washington posted some great reporting on it.

Just sad that they were losing basically their entire editorial team.

But yeah,

They found that Epstein's lawyers contacted the CIA and the NSA to ask for proof of his affiliation with the agencies, okay?

And they got back to them with a Glomar response, which was basically an either confirm or deny, or we can't, you know, the NSA said we can't say anything because it would give up sources, classified information, et cetera.

And that's pretty...

And the latest tranche found that he was actually messaging with Bill Burns, the former CIA director, a lot.

Like, you know, there are messages, there's texts.

He had this relationship with, you know, major intelligence agencies in the U.S.

And I think it explains why he received these sweetheart deals.

Yeah.

And why these victims still to this day feel like there was something very dark and nefarious that continues to go on and why power is policing itself to this day and protecting itself in this story.

So I felt like that was a pretty significant file.

This was a strategic decision by his lawyers to try to get information that showed that he was helpful to intelligence agencies.

Right, exactly.

And here's the thing about Jeffrey Epstein.

People are like, was he a spy?

I don't think he was a spy.

I think he was useful.

I think he was a hyper-connector.