{"id":278533,"date":"2023-12-22T08:28:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T08:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=278533"},"modified":"2023-12-24T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T09:03:30","slug":"quick-take-the-epstein-client-list-is-not-what-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=278533","title":{"rendered":"Quick Take: The \u201cEpstein Client List\u201d is not what it seems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Off-Guardian \u2013 Dec 21, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>On Monday a New York Judge Loretta Preska ruled that the infamous \u201cEpstein Client List\u201d must be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-67769039\">released \u201cin full\u201d in January 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-page ruling has caused a stir, but what is it really going to tell us?<\/p>\n<p>Is it going to reveal anything of his ties to US and Israeli intelligence?<\/p>\n<p>Highly improbable.<\/p>\n<p>Is it going to tell us anything about his supposed \u201csuicide\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>The judge even walked back the \u201cin full\u201d part before the end of her ruling, giving anyone on the list until January 1st to petition to have themselves removed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Anyone on the list has until 1 January to appeal to have their name removed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know who\u2019s going to be on the \u201cfull\u201d list when it\u2019s released (except Prince Andrew, and you already know what <a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2019\/12\/01\/prince-andrew-the-right-royal-lizard-tale\/\">we think about him<\/a>) but there\u2019s no reason at all to trust it.<\/p>\n<p>As we speak the contents of this \u201cfull list\u201d are probably subject to feverish behind the scenes campaigning. PR firms, agents, lobbyists all jockeying to have their clients removed and their enemies added. Those in control are likely busy extorting favours from anyone who doesn\u2019t want to be a last minute addition.<\/p>\n<p>Because that\u2019s always been the major point of the \u201cclient list\u201d. Since the revelation that it existed, the \u201cClient List\u201d has been a potential threat hanging over the head of every politician, celebrity or high profile business owner.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cStep out of line, and we might just discover you\u2019re on the list and start leaking that little tidbit all over the place\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The persons concerned don\u2019t need to have EVER actually been on the list for this to work.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, there doesn\u2019t even need to <em>be<\/em> a list for this to work. Not a real solid hard copy compiled by Epstein anyhow. Just a spreadsheet on a computer somewhere, updated as necessary with the names of those deemed needful.<\/p>\n<p>Consider, for a moment just how strange it is that we even know the \u201cEpstein client list\u201d exists, and indeed that that\u2019s what it\u2019s called.<\/p>\n<p>Consider how strange it is that we were ever told who went to what island how many times.<\/p>\n<p>Now the judge has made a ruling (<em>hooray! the system works!<\/em>) and we\u2019ll likely be presented with nothing but a list of disposable names \u2013 the old, the dead, the already discredited and\/or recently stepped out of line.<\/p>\n<p>What relationship, if any, it has to Epstein\u2019s real associates or anything else real world will remain unknowable and largely irrelevant to everyone selling and consuming it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2023\/12\/21\/quick-take-the-epstein-client-list-is-not-what-it-seems\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Loretta Preska recently ruled that the infamous \u201cEpstein Client List\u201d must be released \u2018in full\u2019 in Jan.2024. However, it won\u2019t be a full disclosure. That\u2019s because anyone on the list can appeal to have their name removed before the release date. So there will be a lot of frantic behind the scenes legal wrangling in the weeks ahead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":278534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278535,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278533\/revisions\/278535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}