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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    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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      “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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        Nothing wrong with traitors, our founders were traitors.

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

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      Hey it’s me Detective Hangemall. I’ll gladly investigate this but my record so far is zero convictions. All the damn suspects keep disappearing but I’m willing to work for free.

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      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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        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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          OP is misremembering. The real key is that no Democrat has ever been appointed to run the FBI. Democrats always appoint Republicans to run the FBI.

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          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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            This is not reddit and when you make these kinds of insinuations you only ever wind up sounding like a conspiracist or a dolt (perhaps both).

            You’ll find a large majority of Lemmy instances are pretty critical of the US Democrattic party and rightly so.

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              You’ll find a large majority of Lemmy instances are pretty critical of the US Democrattic party and rightly so.

              I have not found that to be the case. Say anything less than worshipful of the genocide wing that runs the party and you’ll get pushback. Try it for the very first time.

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                What the actual fuck are you talking about?

                By which I mean your sweeping, obviously inaccurate claims about the userbase, not the genocide, which is definitely happening, happened under the previous administration too, and is extremely fucked up, and likely contributed to the fascists getting elected given how abysmally the DNC handled the entire situation?

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                  You have a lot more issue with my saying that lemmy makes excuses for democrats than you do about the straight up lie that no democrat has ever appointed an FBI chair. Because that lie is there to excuse bad behavior of democrats.

                  not the genocide, which is definitely happening, happened under the previous administration too, and is extremely fucked up, and likely contributed to the fascists getting elected given how abysmally the DNC handled the entire situation?

                  The prevailing consensus on lemmy is that the democrats did nothing wrong at all and the mean old voters denied them the election.

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                Try it for the very first time.

                This line just proves that you’re not interested in a serious conversation. You’ll find in life that if you listen before you talk you’ll often learn quite a lot of useful things.

                Take care.

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                If you really believe this, then you have serious reading comprehension skills and/or only interpret everything in a way the reinforces your existing biases . From my experience, a majority of people here, myself included, would happily see both parties burn to the ground and replaced with a system that empowers We The People to choose real representatives.

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                  Another person who has never heard the excuses because they’ve never given anyone occasion to employ them.

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                Saying shit like “the Democratic party revolves around genocide” is what gets you push back. Try saying something realistic and people will agree.

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                  Saying shit like “the Democratic party revolves around genocide” is what gets you push back.

                  From people who know it’s true, love it, and never want it to change except for the worse. When their actions indicate that they support another policy with greater persistence and enthusiasm, I’ll believe the party actually has other policies.

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        I was just thinking this. The FBI was completely in dependent back then. Still interesting to note.

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        Not really trying anything. Just that whatever kept the FBI from pursuing Epstein, it was something other than a desire to protect Clinton. They had it in for Clinton and would have gone after this if they thought it would take him down.

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    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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      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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      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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      Tbf, we don’t know who really owns any instance, especially the large ones (like the one you’re on). It could be reddit or meta for all we know