On this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Ronnica talks about the Epstein scandal and how the FBI and CIA are responsible for one of the biggest mysteries in American history, the death of a high profile prisoner, Jeffrey Epstein.
00:00:28.780Because the Federal Bureau of Prisons is the biggest repository of semi-literate boobs anywhere in government.
00:00:41.040If you have an IQ of 65 and you want to work in government, straight to the Bureau of Prisons with you, right?
00:00:51.140Every flunky who couldn't make it through the local police academy or every loser who left the military and couldn't find a job because he lives in some rural area.
00:01:02.100And there are no jobs unless you want to be a farmer and live in a double wide that go to the Bureau of Prisons.
00:01:08.760The guards, so many of the guards were so stupid where I was that they couldn't even read.
00:01:15.480So they couldn't do mail call because they couldn't read the envelopes.
00:01:20.280And so prisoners had to do the mail call for them.
00:01:22.920The only qualifications to be a prison guard are you have to have a GED or be working on a GED and no felony convictions.
00:05:31.140But you figure – Virginia Giuffre told us and actually five other young women in their statements, in their lawsuit told us that there were rooms with banks of monitors, right?
00:05:48.920And they were monitoring every room and every bathroom.
00:05:51.640So if there were clients, and I believe there were, and they were having sex with minors, and I believe they were, every single person who was hired to monitor those screens would have known.
00:06:08.020I believe that there was a list, a client list.
00:06:42.100Actually, they both declined to handle it.
00:06:43.640In a 2020 Maryland auction, I was going to attempt to sell one of Epstein's – the little black book, but it failed to meet the reserve, but it did not sell.
00:06:51.960The book had been offered privately earlier with bids exceeding $100,000.
00:06:55.880If that book is still out there, I'd buy it myself with that number.
00:07:10.140I actually bought something from them.
00:07:12.100There was something that passed, and I emailed them after the auction, and I said, hey, I'd really like to have it, and they gave it to me for the minimum reserve.
00:07:28.560To say it's in the thousands, because all the clients, all the employees, all the people that set up the cameras, all the girls that were involved, how many people they told.
00:08:12.400So out of the 50, if I'm somebody that wants to get that intel, okay, if I'm somebody that wants to get that intel, and I want to get the next John who is a FBI agent, CIA who is conflicted, you were conflicted with waterboarding,
00:08:31.900and that person is conflicted with the fact that they have access to this information where a bunch of minors were –
00:09:00.320WikiLeaks today, I mean, for all intents and purposes, WikiLeaks doesn't really exist anymore.
00:09:06.380But you need somebody with a strong moral compass who's willing to take a serious risk because, again, you're going to be prosecuted.
00:09:17.400You know, maybe even under that Espionage Act.
00:09:19.780The judge in my case, Judge Leonie Brinkema, set two precedents in espionage-related cases.
00:09:27.400First of all, she ruled that she would not respect other district courts' precedents that there had to be harm to the national security for an Espionage Act prosecution.
00:09:40.660Secondly, she ruled that a person can accidentally commit espionage without the intent to commit espionage, without any criminal intent.
00:09:51.280And she defined espionage very simply as providing national defense information to any person not entitled to receive it.
00:09:58.400People could argue that the Epstein files are national defense information, especially if they have something to do with a foreign country or with a foreign leader.
00:10:11.280And we know that Prince Andrew was implicated.
00:10:13.900So, somebody would have to seriously take a risk by releasing that information.
00:10:21.400Hi, everybody. I'm John Kiriakou, former CIA officer.