Criminal enterprise in death of Epstein...?

[pbmus]

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[PJMcK]

1. Oh, my!

It took the FBI more than a month to figure out that Epstein's death was problematic?

I'm shocked.

Yesterday, I discovered that water is wet! Who could've known?!

[malaise]

6. And more than a few DUers

[PJMcK]

7. WINK (n/t)

[jberryhill]

9. There's a bit more context to this exchange than the tweet in the OP suggests

Lindsey Graham basically puts the words in her mouth, since this is an important RW talking point.

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[hlthe2b]

2. From the article:

The nation’s top prison administrator, Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, told committee members, who expressed skepticism about the official cause of death, that FBI agents are looking at the possibility that a “criminal enterprise” played a role in that death.

Sawyer, who became director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons after the previous director was summarily shipped out after Epstein’s death, was taking questions when Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and chairman of the committee, asked about the FBI investigation.
“With a case this high profile, there has got to be either a major malfunction of the system or a criminal enterprise afoot to allow this to happen,” Graham said. “So are you looking at both? Is the FBI looking at both?”

“The FBI is involved and they are looking at criminal enterprise, yes,” Sawyer replied.

Later during Tuesday’s Senate hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, lambasted the federal prison system and laid out his own theories on what may have happened to Epstein.

“What happened to Jeffrey Epstein is an enormous black eye for the BOP,” Cruz said, using the acronym for the Bureau of Prisons, “and yet he died in federal custody. He died in federal custody before he had a chance to testify about his crimes, about his wrongdoings, and about the other powerful men who were complicit in that sexual abuse. ... There were powerful men who wanted Jeffrey Epstein silenced.”

Cruz floated “two possibilities” for what happened to Epstein. The first was “gross negligence and total failure of BOP to do its job.” The second, he said, was “something far worse ... that it was not suicide but rather a homicide carried out by person or persons who wanted Epstein silenced.”

The Texas senator then asked Sawyer whether she saw “any indication” that Epstein was murdered.

Sawyer replied: “There’s no indication, from anything I know, that it was anything other than a suicide.”

[spanone]

3. K&R...👍🏼

[onecaliberal]

4. Yeah it's called the trump administration.

[Amaryllis]

5. Duh. THat was no suicide.

[Talitha]

8. And I REALLY wish they'd stop pushing that old photo of Epstein.

Use the recent one where he's all wrinkled and looks like a hobo.