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What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. In this episode we're picking up where we
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left off with Alex Acosta the Fall Guy. The survivors
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of Epstein's abuse are then fed a story of closure.
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They're told the deal was a mistake by one man,
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not a coordinated act by an entire system. But the
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survivors know better. They've watched for years as doors stayed closed,
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files stayed sealed, and the most powerful names in Epstein's
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orbit vanished. never see the inside of a courtroom. And
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so the hearings become political theater. The Acosta subpoena is
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a gesture, a headline, an appearance of accountability, but does
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nothing to answer the fundamental questions. Who inserted the immunity clause?
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Who in Washington instructed Acosta's office to back down? Who
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decided that Epstein's case must be buried at all costs?
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The avoidance of those questions is not accidental. Asking them
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would require calling Mukasey, Philippe, and others under oath. It
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would force a confrontation with the reality that the NPA
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was not just a prosecutorial discretion gone wrong. It was
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a conscious choice made by the highest levels of DOJ
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to protect a man whose crimes were known, documented, and overwhelming.
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It would also expose the uncomfortable truth about the relationship
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between power and accountability in America. If a billionaire with
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the right connections can secure an immunity deal that covers
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not just himself, but his entire ring of co-conspirators, then
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what does that say about the integrity of the justice system?
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Acosta alone cannot answer that. Only main justice can. And
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yet that line has never been crossed. The committee, the media,
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the establishment, they all stop at Acosta's doorstep. They dare
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not push into Washington's corridors because they know that's where
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the story stops being about a prosecutor's misjudgment and starts
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being about systemic corruption. The deliberate preservation of that firewall
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is what ensures the cover-up survives. It's why Epstein's legacy
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continues to fester, why the survivors still wait for justice,
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and why the public remains in the dark. As long
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as the focus remains on Acosta, the true architects remain untouchable.
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In this way, Acosta has served his role perfectly. Not
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as the originator of the NPA, but as its shield.
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His downfall provides the illusion of justice while leaving the
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real decision makers unscathed. And that is why he was
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always destined to be the fall guy. But history, or you,
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should not be fooled. The fingerprints of the NPA don't
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just belong to Acosta, they belong to the men who
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outranked him, who had the authority to override him, and
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who ultimately chose not to. That silence is as much
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a confession as is his signature. If the committee truly cared,
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they would not stop until every single official, from the
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state prosecutors who passed the buck to the DOJ brass
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who cemented the deal, were forced to testify under oath.
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Only then would the truth about Epstein's non-prosecution be laid bare.
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Until that day comes, the NPA will remain the most
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glaring example of how power protects itself. Acosta will remain
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the scapegoat, the one sacrificed to keep the story neat,
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but the deeper truth... That the real decision came from
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DC's highest levels will haunt every mention of his name,
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because history has a way of revealing what the present
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worked so hard to bury. And that's why this case
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cannot rest. Acosta may have been the fall guy, but
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he was never the architect. If the committee fails to
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pierce beyond them, then they are not exposing the Epstein scandal,
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they're reinforcing it. The real answers sit with those who
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have never been made to answer at all. And the
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conclusion that emerges from this long trail of evasions is
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that Alex Acosta's name was chosen not just by accident,
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but by design. He was expendable, a man whose career
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could be sacrificed without shaking the pillars of power. That's
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why when the scandal finally exploded years later, the institutions
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all lined up to point at him. He was useful
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in his fall because his fall protected those above him.
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This selective accountability is the hallmark of how the justice
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system handles politically explosive cases. You find a middle manager,
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a functionary, someone close enough to the paperwork to look responsible,
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but far enough away from the real levers of power
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to be disposable. You let him absorb the fire, while
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those who actually crafted the plan stay hidden in the shadows.
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That's exactly what happened here. Epstein's legal team understood the
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importance of reaching the highest levels. They didn't spend their
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time arguing with line prosecutors in Miami. They took their
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arguments to Washington. where they knew real power resided, and
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it worked. When the dust settled, they had secured a
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deal so favorable it looked like a parody. One that
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could only have been approved at the very top. Acosta's
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later humiliation was part of the cost of doing business.
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His resignation from Trump's cabinet, the endless headlines that branded
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him as the man who let Epstein walk, all of
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it served the purpose of keeping the public satisfied with
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a shallow explanation. As long as the country believed the
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problem started and ended with him, the story could be contained.
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But if you follow the logic deeper, you realize how
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dangerous that containment is. Because if Maine Justice intervened to
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save Epstein in 2008, then the rot was not just
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in one office, but woven into the institution itself. It
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meant the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country
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was willing to bend its own rules to protect a predator.
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That fact alone should terrify every citizen who believes in
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equal justice under the law. And yet, the conversation has
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never truly reached that point. Even the most high-profile coverage
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stops shy of naming the men who actually had the authority. Instead,
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they circle back to Acosta again and again because his
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role is convenient. He's the firewall between the public and
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the truth. This firewall is why subpoenas must not stop
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at him. It's not enough to drag Acosta into a
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hearing and let him stumble through half-truths and evasions. The
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committee must call every single person who touched the NPA,
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from the state prosecutors who deferred to federal authority to
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the senior DOJ officials who stamped the final approval. As
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I've said now multiple times, anything less is theater. The
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survivors deserve more than theater. They deserve the record that
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names names, that places responsibility where it belongs. that acknowledges
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the scale of the betrayal. To reduce it all to
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one man in Miami is not just inaccurate, it's another
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form of denial. It's an extension of the same cover-up
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that began in 2008. Consider how long Epstein's shadow has lingered,
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even after his arrest in 2019, after his supposed suicide,
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after Glenn Maxwell's conviction. The real answers have never been
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pried from the people who mattered most. The focus drifts
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from one scapegoat to the next while the core machinery
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that enabled them never faces the daylight. That's why the
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Acosta narrative is so dangerous. It teaches the public to settle.
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It tells people blame the middleman. Don't ask about the bosses.
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It normalizes the idea that corruption at the very top
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is untouchable. That accountability only applies to those with limited power.
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That lesson, once internalized, corrodes democracy itself. Mukasey and Philippe
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may never sit before a committee. They may never have
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to explain what was said in those meetings with Epstein's
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lawyers or why such a sweeping immunity deal was allowed
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to stand. But history is not so easily managed. The
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unanswered questions will remain gnawing at the edges of their reputations,
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growing louder each time the case is revisited. And it
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will be revisited because scandals of this magnitude don't vanish,
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they linger, pass from one generation to the next until
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the truth eventually breaks through. Acosta's scapegoating may buy time,
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but it cannot erase the fundamental fact that the NPA
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was a decision engineered by those above him. Every detail
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of that decision, the meetings, the drafts, the directives, must
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one day be put under oath. Until then, the story
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remains half-told, a sanitized version designed to protect the guilty
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while punishing the convenient. That's the real injustice, not just
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that Epstein escaped accountability, but that the system engineered his
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escape and then blamed it on one man. The committee's
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reluctance to cross the line shows how deep that rot runs.
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They know what lies on the other side of that firewall,
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the possibility that DOJ itself, at its highest levels, bent
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the law to shield a man whose crimes were unforgivable.
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To admit that would be to admit institutional failure on
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a scale too large for them to stomach. But, without
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that admission, without that courage, the hearings are hollow. They
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are not justice, they're stagecraft. They're designed to give the
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appearance of accountability, while ensuring the system itself remains untouched.
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That's why Acosta's name is repeated endlessly, while the names
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of Mukasey and Philippe are barely whispered. The survivors, however,
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will not forget. They know that true justice lies not
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in blaming a single man, but in holding the entire
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chain accountable. They know that Epstein's power was not just
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in his wealth or connections, but in the way the
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system bent itself to protect him. That bending required hands
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far stronger than Acosta's. And so, the conclusion is clear.
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Alex Acosta was never the architect of Epstein's freedom. He
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was the fall guy, placed in position to absorb history's
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fury while the real decision makers walked away unscathed. Hitting
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him with a subpoena is a start. but unless the
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subpoenas stretch upward to every official who touched the NPA,
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the truth will remain buried. In the end, history will
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not remember Acosta as the man who freed Epstein. It
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will remember him as the shield, the one sacrificed to
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keep the institution safe. The real blame lies higher in Washington.
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in the offices where decisions were truly made. Until those
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names are spoken under oath, the scandal is not resolved,
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it's ongoing. And that's the bitter truth. The Epstein NPA
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is not just the story of one man's failure, it's
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the story of a system that protected the powerful, sacrificed
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the convenient, and dared to call it justice. Unless the
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committee breaks that cycle, they are not investigating the scandal,
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all they're doing is perpetuating it. All of the information
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that goes with this episode can be found in the
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description box.
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What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. In this episode we're picking up where we
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left off with Alex Acosta the Fall Guy. The survivors
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of Epstein's abuse are then fed a story of closure.
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They're told the deal was a mistake by one man,
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not a coordinated act by an entire system. But the
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survivors know better. They've watched for years as doors stayed closed,
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files stayed sealed, and the most powerful names in Epstein's
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orbit vanished. never see the inside of a courtroom. And
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so the hearings become political theater. The Acosta subpoena is
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a gesture, a headline, an appearance of accountability, but does
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nothing to answer the fundamental questions. Who inserted the immunity clause?
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Who in Washington instructed Acosta's office to back down? Who
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decided that Epstein's case must be buried at all costs?
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The avoidance of those questions is not accidental. Asking them
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would require calling Mukasey, Philippe, and others under oath. It
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would force a confrontation with the reality that the NPA
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was not just a prosecutorial discretion gone wrong. It was
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a conscious choice made by the highest levels of DOJ
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to protect a man whose crimes were known, documented, and overwhelming.
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It would also expose the uncomfortable truth about the relationship
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between power and accountability in America. If a billionaire with
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the right connections can secure an immunity deal that covers
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not just himself, but his entire ring of co-conspirators, then
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what does that say about the integrity of the justice system?
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Acosta alone cannot answer that. Only main justice can. And
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yet that line has never been crossed. The committee, the media,
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the establishment, they all stop at Acosta's doorstep. They dare
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not push into Washington's corridors because they know that's where
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the story stops being about a prosecutor's misjudgment and starts
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being about systemic corruption. The deliberate preservation of that firewall
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is what ensures the cover-up survives. It's why Epstein's legacy
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continues to fester, why the survivors still wait for justice,
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and why the public remains in the dark. As long
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as the focus remains on Acosta, the true architects remain untouchable.
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In this way, Acosta has served his role perfectly. Not
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as the originator of the NPA, but as its shield.
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His downfall provides the illusion of justice while leaving the
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real decision makers unscathed. And that is why he was
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always destined to be the fall guy. But history, or you,
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should not be fooled. The fingerprints of the NPA don't
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just belong to Acosta, they belong to the men who
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outranked him, who had the authority to override him, and
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who ultimately chose not to. That silence is as much
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a confession as is his signature. If the committee truly cared,
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they would not stop until every single official, from the
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state prosecutors who passed the buck to the DOJ brass
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who cemented the deal, were forced to testify under oath.
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Only then would the truth about Epstein's non-prosecution be laid bare.
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Until that day comes, the NPA will remain the most
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glaring example of how power protects itself. Acosta will remain
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the scapegoat, the one sacrificed to keep the story neat,
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but the deeper truth... That the real decision came from
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DC's highest levels will haunt every mention of his name,
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because history has a way of revealing what the present
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worked so hard to bury. And that's why this case
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cannot rest. Acosta may have been the fall guy, but
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he was never the architect. If the committee fails to
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pierce beyond them, then they are not exposing the Epstein scandal,
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they're reinforcing it. The real answers sit with those who
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have never been made to answer at all. And the
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conclusion that emerges from this long trail of evasions is
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that Alex Acosta's name was chosen not just by accident,
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but by design. He was expendable, a man whose career
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could be sacrificed without shaking the pillars of power. That's
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why when the scandal finally exploded years later, the institutions
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all lined up to point at him. He was useful
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in his fall because his fall protected those above him.
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This selective accountability is the hallmark of how the justice
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system handles politically explosive cases. You find a middle manager,
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a functionary, someone close enough to the paperwork to look responsible,
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but far enough away from the real levers of power
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to be disposable. You let him absorb the fire, while
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those who actually crafted the plan stay hidden in the shadows.
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That's exactly what happened here. Epstein's legal team understood the
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importance of reaching the highest levels. They didn't spend their
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time arguing with line prosecutors in Miami. They took their
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arguments to Washington. where they knew real power resided, and
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it worked. When the dust settled, they had secured a
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deal so favorable it looked like a parody. One that
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could only have been approved at the very top. Acosta's
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later humiliation was part of the cost of doing business.
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His resignation from Trump's cabinet, the endless headlines that branded
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him as the man who let Epstein walk, all of
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it served the purpose of keeping the public satisfied with
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a shallow explanation. As long as the country believed the
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problem started and ended with him, the story could be contained.
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But if you follow the logic deeper, you realize how
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dangerous that containment is. Because if Maine Justice intervened to
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save Epstein in 2008, then the rot was not just
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in one office, but woven into the institution itself. It
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meant the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country
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was willing to bend its own rules to protect a predator.
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That fact alone should terrify every citizen who believes in
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equal justice under the law. And yet, the conversation has
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never truly reached that point. Even the most high-profile coverage
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stops shy of naming the men who actually had the authority. Instead,
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they circle back to Acosta again and again because his
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role is convenient. He's the firewall between the public and
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the truth. This firewall is why subpoenas must not stop
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at him. It's not enough to drag Acosta into a
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hearing and let him stumble through half-truths and evasions. The
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committee must call every single person who touched the NPA,
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from the state prosecutors who deferred to federal authority to
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the senior DOJ officials who stamped the final approval. As
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I've said now multiple times, anything less is theater. The
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survivors deserve more than theater. They deserve the record that
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names names, that places responsibility where it belongs. that acknowledges
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the scale of the betrayal. To reduce it all to
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one man in Miami is not just inaccurate, it's another
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form of denial. It's an extension of the same cover-up
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that began in 2008. Consider how long Epstein's shadow has lingered,
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even after his arrest in 2019, after his supposed suicide,
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after Glenn Maxwell's conviction. The real answers have never been
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pried from the people who mattered most. The focus drifts
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from one scapegoat to the next while the core machinery
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that enabled them never faces the daylight. That's why the
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Acosta narrative is so dangerous. It teaches the public to settle.
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It tells people blame the middleman. Don't ask about the bosses.
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It normalizes the idea that corruption at the very top
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is untouchable. That accountability only applies to those with limited power.
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That lesson, once internalized, corrodes democracy itself. Mukasey and Philippe
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may never sit before a committee. They may never have
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to explain what was said in those meetings with Epstein's
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lawyers or why such a sweeping immunity deal was allowed
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to stand. But history is not so easily managed. The
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unanswered questions will remain gnawing at the edges of their reputations,
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growing louder each time the case is revisited. And it
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will be revisited because scandals of this magnitude don't vanish,
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they linger, pass from one generation to the next until
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the truth eventually breaks through. Acosta's scapegoating may buy time,
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but it cannot erase the fundamental fact that the NPA
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was a decision engineered by those above him. Every detail
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of that decision, the meetings, the drafts, the directives, must
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one day be put under oath. Until then, the story
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remains half-told, a sanitized version designed to protect the guilty
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while punishing the convenient. That's the real injustice, not just
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that Epstein escaped accountability, but that the system engineered his
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escape and then blamed it on one man. The committee's
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reluctance to cross the line shows how deep that rot runs.
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They know what lies on the other side of that firewall,
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the possibility that DOJ itself, at its highest levels, bent
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the law to shield a man whose crimes were unforgivable.
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To admit that would be to admit institutional failure on
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a scale too large for them to stomach. But, without
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that admission, without that courage, the hearings are hollow. They
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are not justice, they're stagecraft. They're designed to give the
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appearance of accountability, while ensuring the system itself remains untouched.
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That's why Acosta's name is repeated endlessly, while the names
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of Mukasey and Philippe are barely whispered. The survivors, however,
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will not forget. They know that true justice lies not
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in blaming a single man, but in holding the entire
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chain accountable. They know that Epstein's power was not just
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in his wealth or connections, but in the way the
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system bent itself to protect him. That bending required hands
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far stronger than Acosta's. And so, the conclusion is clear.
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Alex Acosta was never the architect of Epstein's freedom. He
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was the fall guy, placed in position to absorb history's
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fury while the real decision makers walked away unscathed. Hitting
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him with a subpoena is a start. but unless the
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subpoenas stretch upward to every official who touched the NPA,
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the truth will remain buried. In the end, history will
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not remember Acosta as the man who freed Epstein. It
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will remember him as the shield, the one sacrificed to
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keep the institution safe. The real blame lies higher in Washington.
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in the offices where decisions were truly made. Until those
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names are spoken under oath, the scandal is not resolved,
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it's ongoing. And that's the bitter truth. The Epstein NPA
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is not just the story of one man's failure, it's
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the story of a system that protected the powerful, sacrificed
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the convenient, and dared to call it justice. Unless the
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committee breaks that cycle, they are not investigating the scandal,
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all they're doing is perpetuating it. All of the information
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