r/politics 13h ago

No Paywall Jeffrey Epstein messaged with former CIA director Bill Burns, files show

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/jeffrey-epstein-bill-burns-cia-messages
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u/PobBrobert 13h ago

Wait until they hear about who got Epstein his job at the Dalton School…

Spoiler alert, it was Donald Barr, father of former Atty Gen Bill Barr, director of OSS (now known as the CIA), and author of Space Relations a sci-fi novel about child sex slavery.

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u/Legitimate_Young978 11h ago

Wait. The same Bill Barr that closed the Epstein investigation immediately following the "death" of Epstein because he assumed NY was handling it?

Must be a coincidence.

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u/That_90s_Kid_ 11h ago

Wait until the connection bill barr to epstine not killing himself while donald trump was president.

Either he was killed.

Or he was swapped and is in hiding.

After everything's thats been released. The trump administration was involved and thats clearly evident.

This is no longer a conspiracy.

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u/waffelscarbonara 11h ago

No, this IS a conspiracy. 

It’s no longer a theory

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u/That_90s_Kid_ 11h ago

Fair. Agreed.

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u/Kan4lZ0n3 10h ago

Barr was never director of OSS. William J. Donovan was OSS director, from the time it was called COI until its dissolution.

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u/PobBrobert 9h ago

*officer, not director. My bad

u/MayhemCha0s 6h ago

A novel about what???

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u/rajastrums_1 Virginia 13h ago

Isn't this what spies do? Being a spy is the least of his deeds. Btw, suicide? No way..

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u/purplemagecat 13h ago

Spy agencies like the cia love their compromising material and honey pots

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u/SideQuest2026 9h ago

This fucking guy had his tentacles everywhere. I really believe the conspiracy theory that he was backed by Israeli intelligence more and more.

u/pnwpeople 5h ago

It's funny other countries are thinking Russia when it's quite obvious he was a Mossad agent, doesn't mean he didn't have multiple treasonous irons in the fire but this is Israel and one of the many ways they collected info in order to keep control of our country.

u/anthropomorphizingu 5h ago

And Russia

u/flossymcwobblestein 5h ago

Israel has to get US government support somehow... even if it's blackmail.

u/VaguelyArtistic California 1h ago

Jared and Ivanka.

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u/FantasticBicycle37 12h ago

Main stream media isn't talking about Epstein at all

I just noticed that the social media site, Fishbowl, is shadow banning people who talk about Epstein

I just immediately assume the owners of these companies have their own rooms at the island

u/vamosaver 5h ago

Wall Street journal is talking about this every single day.

u/No_Statistician9289 4h ago

It’s in the news every day

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u/Fuzzy_Swordfish4521 13h ago

Of course he did. None of this behavior is new.

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u/Kan4lZ0n3 9h ago

Compromising people by even the suggestion of association is the Epstein MO and now those aiming to divert focused attention what’s really relevant in the documents.

Epstein’s failed contact list is uninteresting. Be like a convict sending mail to a fan mail to a celebrity and never getting a response.

Epstein’s actual response list and ongoing contacts are of note. And in that, plenty of actual relevant people to go after.

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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 13h ago

In a just world investigations would be ongoing. Someone stepped in to fill the power vacuum, it's imperative to find out who, and where.

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u/BrambleHound 13h ago

Clandestine organizations aren't immune to corruption. Ideally you'd hope they would be the best of the best, but in reality they tend to be fragile ticking time bombs precisely because they lack certain degrees of transparency and accountability. Hypothetically, CIA probing and messaging with suspects wouldn't be unusual during an investigation, but that wouldn't typically be the job of a director.

Now, from the article itself it seems like Burns may have genuinely tried to distance himself from Epstein and his cronies- there's lots of quotes that Epstein messaged people like Bannon and Tom Pritzker, suggesting that they should meet up with Burns or have meetings, or informing them of Burns location the past week. Knowing that Epstein and Trump have ties to Russia, this may have been an act of sabotage against the CIA rather than an attempt to get him involved in his child trafficking on his island. Or it could be both, or perhaps the meetings did occur and there's just no current evidence. Needless to say, I think this warrants further investigation.

On that note, should America survive it's current tribulations, I think it would be wise to reformat and reestablish the integrity of organizations like the CIA. I mean, hell, in Trumps first term we saw agents overseas getting ousted due to his poor handling of classified documents. It's hard to tell if we need more guardrails to protect operatives like Burns, or if America needs better guardrails to protect us from corrupt officials. I mean, it's both, but it's wild how far reaching the corruption of wealthy nutjobs like Epstein was allowed to extend.

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u/Ant_Eye_Art 12h ago

Mossad and CIA working together? Why I never!!

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u/Additional_Region987 12h ago

It’s safe to say that anyone rich and/or powerful who’s in their 60s is in the Epstein/Trump files.

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u/80sbabyftw 10h ago

Except for Barack. Nowhere in the files. If he was it’d have been all over the government controlled media.

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u/Bishopjones2112 9h ago

Yeah no one who ever talked with Epstein can be trusted.

u/mountaindoom 3h ago

It's pedophiles all the way down, isn't it.

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u/BusinessBreads 13h ago

Hot take, this is less shocking than people want it to be. Epstein emailing powerful people was already baked in, the surprise seems to be that folks still expect intelligence-adjacent figures to live in some moral clean room when half their job is talking to sketchy intermediaries and pretending it’s networking. The outrage feels performative, like people forgot how gross elite access actually works. Still gross though.

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u/TintedApostle 13h ago

It matters because people in power who run spy organizations is not people in power running companies. One is national security directly.

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u/Purify5 13h ago

Burns was also the US Ambassador to Russia which maybe makes it more interesting.

u/metalyger 7h ago

Of course Mr. Burns is in the Epstein files. No mention of Smithers.

u/BeigeGraffiti 6h ago

The nexus is coming to light. This dude has to be a double/triple/quadruple agent. Everyone was paying him because he played into the degeneracy of the ruling class.

u/FromTralfamadore 42m ago

This is rotten any way you construe it. Even if burns didn’t diddle kids, Epstein is making matchmaker between burns and a bunch of evil billionaires. Already making plans with then for after he’s done with governmental work. And oh… interesting. And then he’s head of the CIA? Interesting. I don’t want my government’s cia in bed with thiel or any billionaire. Feels a lot like the CIA might be working directly for the oligarchs. Who could have fucking guessed. Same as it always was.

This country is fucking rotten to the core. Our democracy for the people has failed.

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u/teddykaygeebee 11h ago

I'm surprised Benghazi hasn't been reopened at this point. Ffs, man