Epstein Files Law Passed During Week of JFK Assassination Anniversary Seems Like a Sign

The passage of a law that mandates the release of government files on Jeffrey Epstein during the anniversary week of the John Kennedy assassination seems fitting.

When authorities hide the facts, the people will invent them. And the ones they invent always seem to flatter whatever worldview they hold. The Epstein saga proves this. (RELATED: Why Releasing the Epstein Files Will Likely Undermine Justice)

If you hate Israel, then its intelligence agencies stand behind Jeffrey Epstein. If you hate Bill Clinton, then you imagine him living not in Chappaqua but on Epstein Island. If you hate Donald Trump, then his Mar-a-Lago ban on Epstein proves his knowledge and thus complicity in Epstein’s interest in underage girls. (RELATED: The Dog That Didn’t Bark and the Bombshell That Didn’t Explode)

In cases in which the public knows the facts, the players actually involved with Epstein rarely show remorse or accept accountability.

Stacey Plaskett, a U.S. Virgin Islands delegate to the House of Representatives caught soliciting her donor Jeffrey Epstein’s advice by text as she questioned Trump administration figures a few months before Epstein’s death, told CNN that “this was seven years ago,” “as a prosecutor, you glean information where you can,” and, in a TMI-non sequitur mashup, “I lived in a house during childhood with a mother who had been sexually abused by her dad.”

Plaskett’s congressional ally Jasmine Crockett refused to second-guess her on the same network and lamely defended her claim — made in the well of the House of Representatives in defense of Plaskett — that Jeffrey Epstein donated to Republican Lee Zeldin when that Jeffrey Epstein was a physician and the other Jeffrey Epstein was long dead.

“Listen, I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein,” Jasmine Crockett lamely insisted to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about her calumny of Zeldin and several other Republicans. Her first mistake involved profound stupidity; her second, a lack of honesty.

In newly released emails, longtime MIT professor Noam Chomsky calls Epstein “a highly valued friend,” which helps explain why he ran interference for him.

“There’s a principle of Western Law that once a person has served a sentence, he’s the same as everyone else,” Chomsky dubiously insisted in a 2020 interview. “This seems to be forgotten.”

Chomsky strangely shifted the conversation to philanthropist David Koch, who died days after Epstein.

“Is he the worst person to contribute to MIT?” he asked of Epstein. “In my office at MIT, when I was there, I looked out the window of my office and saw the David Koch Cancer Center. David Koch is certainly a candidate for one of the most extraordinary criminals in human history.”

On what grounds? Koch gave away more than a billion dollars. A fraction of that philanthropy he directed to Citizens for a Sound Economy, Reason magazine, the Cato Institute, and other libertarian-oriented ventures.

In Chomsky’s mind, that apparently condemns him as worse than an enthusiast for sex with underage girls. And in Crockett’s mind, her friend Delegate Plaskett’s commitment to progressive causes gives her a pass for her solicitation of Epstein’s political coaching in 2019.

In other words, this remains about politics for politicized actors — just as the Kennedy Assassination did 62 years ago. Then, a Communist in contact with several of the U.S. party’s leaders, struck as an inconvenient villain for Marxists in a post-McCarthy America.

By December 1, 1963, the Communist Party of Illinois had released “Who Really Killed Pres. Kennedy?” that claimed “only the Ultra Right and the Southern Racists” benefited from the assassination. It ominously noted that “Dallas is the stronghold of the Ultra Right” and “the John Birch Society.”

Later that month in Manhattan, Communists boasted that Mark Lane, a former New York assemblyman and forever thereafter a conspiracy theorist spinning yarns that absolved his political friends and implicated his political enemies in misdeeds, worked on a project to blame the right-wing for Kennedy’s death.

All these years later, information on the last assassination of a U.S. president remains hidden, even after Donald Trump ordered so much of it released. One suspects six decades from now, the U.S. government will continue to withhold material pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein despite this week’s legislation.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant for conspiracy theories. Darkness is their best proliferator.

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