Whatever you thought about our feral elite, it’s way, way worse.

The House release of the Epstein Files, brings together elite impunity, elite depravity, and Israeli influence over the US deep state into one simple and extremely shocking story. The new analysis by Drop Site News has some of the most mind-blowing investigative reveals I’ve ever read. As primary sources go, the documents that Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim got ahold of says so much more about how the world works than anything in the Snowden or Chelsea Manning exposes from the Obama years. It’s always been apparent that Epstein was connected to “intelligence” but their research provides smoking-gun proof that Epstein worked with Israel, and that furthermore, Epstein had a much larger role in global machinations. But he was only able to do this because US foreign policy used Israel as an East Asia proxy for its own global hegemony.

And profit. Epstein manipulated people, policies and events in ways that would allow for US banks and multi-national corporations to profit from national security decision-making. The Shock Doctrine, written by Naomi Klein, presciently describes Epstein’s disaster capitalism. Going further, the files clear up the mystery of why Leon Black “paid” Epstein $159 million for “tax advice”, and why Leslie Wexner transferred ownership of his Manhattan townhouse, originally purchased for $13.2 million in 1989, so that Jefferey could pimp out underage girls in the super deluxe honey-pot. This is the world that Epstein lived and operated in—his reach extended to the top levels of politics, intel, finance, journalism. Even after his guilty plea.

Trump richly deserves whatever happens to him as a result of his ties to Epstein, but this has always been a scandal about the ruling class as a whole, not one individual or political party. Epstein’s world was bi-partisan, with intimate connections in the deep state as well, where we see an overlap between Trump and the Republican Party (the reference to Peter Thiel) and the Democrat world of insiders, with references to Bill Burns. At the time Burns was Deputy Secretary of State for Obama, then he was Director, CIA, for Biden. What were our elite doing meeting with a known sexual abuser like Epstein, and what does this tell us about the feral elite that constitute our ruling class?

I mean, Larry Summers was seeking Epstein’s advice on how to cheat on his wife, while the wife was hitting up Epstein for money for her philanthropy. Then Epstein was hooking up Ariane de Rothschild with former Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, so that they could use Rothschild’s financial resources to develop cyberweapons for Israel, before flying off to his Caribbean pedo-island, with Bill Clinton.

Jeffrey got around.

Thanks to the real journalism of two independent outlets, Drop Site and Reason, we now have a much better sense of Epstein’s relationship with the foreign policy elite of the US and Israel. It seems that Epstein was not just a CIA or Mossad asset. Rather, he was a major player, an American oligarch,  who played a key role in shaping Western policy, which brought him in contact with spy agencies, diplomats, and financiers. Epstein’s ties to American intelligence remain murky, but it strains credulity that an American citizen could be engaged in such high-level diplomatic work that involved negotiations with foreign countries without the knowledge and support of the US national security state.

What’s apparent is that Epstein was deeply entrenched in the foreign policy elite, a fact that gave him much of the impunity he enjoyed for most of his life. Powerful people felt comfortable around Epstein because he was one of them. He had the same worldview that has dominated the US elite since the end of the Cold War. He was a believer in neoliberalism, US military hegemony bolstered in East Asia by the alliance with Israel, globalization, the privatization of government functions, etc. Epstein was a pure representation of the American deep state. The one that controls the country as our elected representatives come and go.

The Epstein saga is a reflection on what’s wrong with our country. Trumpian corruption is unparalleled but his administration is the logical endpoint of the long-standing tradition of elite impunity.

It’s their pedo-world and we just live in it.