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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA guest on AMJoy stated that the medical examiner in the Epstein case presented...
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a summary report similar to Barr's summary of the Mueller Report.
He contends that her report does not end questions of the matter and what's needed now is a toxicology report of the contents of Epstein's stomach and a dna report from finger nail scrapings, along with other evidence.
And so it continues.
Kid Berwyn
(14,876 posts)From Fox News
Personnel at the New York City prison where accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide last week have not been initially cooperative with investigators from the Department of Justice, a federal source told Fox News Friday.
Attorney General William Barr sent two senior DOJ officials to personally visit the Metropolitan Correctional Center and speak with staff from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in order to gather information on Epstein's death after Barr said officials uncovered "serious irregularities" at the jail, a senior DOJ official told Fox News. The officials have been on site since Thursday and the FBI and the Justice Department's inspector general are investigating conditions at the MCC.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/prison-personnel-refuse-to-cooperate-with-doj-investigators-digging-into-epstein-suicide.amp
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)you can pick up DNA, even under the nails, easier than you think.
If he was choked, his stomach contents aren't going to tell us much.
brush
(53,764 posts)I would think would be normal procedure in an autopsy so why not divulge them? Epstein's cellmate is said to be a suspect in four murders and it is suspected that the earlier, alleged suicide attempt of Epstein was actually an assault by this guy.
Doesn't seem unreasonable to ask to see reports from routine autopsy procedures.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)that's consistent with either hanging or choking, not poisoning.
brush
(53,764 posts)I mean with so many wanting this guy dead, a poisoning before hand then an alleged hanging to cover it up...
I mean how the hell did he get cloth sheets strong enough to hang himself with when paper sheets are called for with suicidal inmates?
I don't trust or believe anything coming from anything Barr has anything to do with.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)If you are choking him to death?
You can't kill him twice and you are just leaving evidence that it was a murder behind.
brush
(53,764 posts)Why even object? Do you trust Barr? If he said it was raining I'd check to see if someone was pissing on my boots.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)It's about logic and common sense.
You don't need to "cover your bases" if you are actively killing him by choking him. Just choke him til he's dead. Bases covered.
Injecting poison just leaves evidence that he was murdered vice committed suicide.
You aren't "covering any bases" you are dropping a giant red flag.
He wasn't on suicide watch so he had normal sheets. Having normal sheets means you can hang yourself.
Which, ya know, is why they take those sheets away when you are on suicide watch.
Just because he's dead doesn't mean the evidence goes away or the investigations necessarily stop.
And if he had something against Trump, that was a card he would have played immediately.
triron
(21,999 posts)not the other way around.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)there is no evidence he was poison, there is no logic to poisoning him.
There is evidence he died by strangulation.
brush
(53,764 posts)Cover all bases and dispel all rumors and conspiracy theories.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)and I don't believe in having a coroner run tests just to "dispel rumors and conspiracy theories"
People still believe the moon landing was faked.
brush
(53,764 posts)How long does it take to release a tox and dna report?
because the conspiracy theorists will totally believe a tox and DNA report.
Oh the government said he wasn't poisoned? Great.
I'm sorry, but I don't want the government catering to conspiracy nuts.
brush
(53,764 posts)So it doesn't make sense to you that:
A broken bone in his neck means he died by strangulation either by choking or by hanging
That poisoning someone after you choked them to make it look like a suicide is astronomically stupid
Testing for said putative poison (where there are no signs of poisoning by the way) is an absolute waste of time
Yeah, I don't know what to tell you then other than you are wedded to a conspiracy theory.
brush
(53,764 posts)have been poisoned BEFORE and alleged hanging/strangulation which would break the neck bone, could be a cover of a possible poisoning. GET IT FINALLY?
And the dna report to see if he struggled and scratch a possible stangler.
Any autopsy report would include those things so I don't get at all why you're so against releasing that information.
then WHY strangle him?
If you can reach him and strangle him and kill him, then WHY poison him?
It's ridiculous.
Any autopsy report would NOT include those things because an autopsy looks for what there is evidence for.
Heck, let's check to see if he was drowned first. Or injected with air to cause a heart attack. Or maybe he was electrocuted first.
We don't have any evidence for any of that stuff either, but heck, let's check it all.
Maybe a deadly insect or snake was introduced...we should check for that too.
Poisoning usually leaves signs on the body by the way. It leaves discoloration, or other reactions.
You just picked poisoning because it seems like super secret spy stuff and you think/believe he was killed so that's where you jump to. Not because there is a rational or logical reason to test for something there is no evidence for.
brush
(53,764 posts)I'm done.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)you don't test just cuz maybe, what the heck.
blogslut
(37,999 posts)He was alone in a two-person cell with regular sheets and a bunk bed.
Jeffrey Epstein is dead because of gross negligence on the part of the DOJ, prison administrators, overworked staff and shitty defense lawyers.
still_one
(92,138 posts)Ever since Joy LIED about her homophobic tweets, she has very little credibility in my book
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)That is why I watched part of the show
still_one
(92,138 posts)who decides on the guests though
A more probable scenario is that Epstein was given the opportunity for suicide, not any cover up by the ME
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)For the reason you stated, plus her blatant racism.
The host was one I like, but do not remember his name.
still_one
(92,138 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)I have not watched her since she insisted on interviewing Harris while Warren was speaking. The only one I did not get to hear. Elizabeth was speaking in the background. The only one that happened to. And their are many other instances.
You think that charge does not go both ways? If so I disagree. I have no use for racists or race baiters.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)But a lot of republicans do.
still_one
(92,138 posts)bigoted and prejudice toward gays would be
brush
(53,764 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)A liar at best. A homophobe at worst.
Takket
(21,560 posts)not sure who this "guest" was but that statement is LOADED. it clearly implies the ME had nefarious intent in the report she issued and I find that statement incredibly undeserved and distasteful.
brush
(53,764 posts)was similar to Barr's summary of the Mueller report which immediately prompted calls for back-up evidence.
He called for back-up evidencetox and dna reports.
Baltimike
(4,143 posts)brush
(53,764 posts)ancianita
(36,023 posts)brush
(53,764 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)but I do think confusion is a leading method of obfuscation, so hope they are on the lookout for things that are incongruous.
brush
(53,764 posts)triron
(21,999 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)looking for a way to keep it going.
bonniebgood
(940 posts)asleep for hours, the cameras were suddenly turned off, the cellmate was removed, the suicide watch was taken off. /
I personally don't believe he's DEAD. if he is dead then
ask Barr and Trump, the two at the highest levels that had the most to lose, under oath, better yet, under water boarding enhanced interrogation methods.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)when you have right-wing-extremists...like Barr and trump... coming out of the gate with excuses,..including hauling out Bill Clinton and accusing him of murder, somethings not copacetic. They've obviously covered up a bunch of crap in their lifetimes, but they don't seem to have gotten better at it. I guess they don't need to. We'll never know what happened. Yet people will swear by the public version, and call anyone who disagrees a wacko-conspiracy-theorist. I've read the book so many times.