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The 2007 Emails Show How Epstein's Defense Team Chose Their Own Charges While Prosecutors Prepared to Indict
https://kaitjustice.substack.com/p/the-2007-emails-epstein-npa-acosta-missing-emailsKait Justice
Searching by date through millions of pages of House Oversight documents reveals Acosta's emails we thought were missing.
I'm very impressed by Kait Justice's deep dive into these pieces of evidence. I wish her well.
Too bad the rich MSM can't be bothered to do some real forensics. Or perhaps it isn't in their best interests.
I have been going through every document the House Oversight Committee has released about Jeffrey Epstein but they come in batches, sometimes hundreds of pages, sometimes thousands, and some documents with hundreds of pages each. I have been searching for names, cross-referencing dates, building timelines, and trying to piece together as much of this as I can.
Now, we have been told for years that we cannot fully understand how the illegal NPA (non-prosecution agreement) came to be because Alex Acosta's emails are missing.
The Department of Justice Office of Inspector General documented in 2020 that there is an eleven-month gap in Acosta's email records covering exactly the period when the Non-Prosecution Agreement was being negotiated. Officials claim it was "most likely due to a technological error". As attorney Paul Cassell (representing victim Courtney Wild) told ABC News: "The gap seems to have surgically struck on exactly the time period when most of the big decisions were being made."
Then I realized something that changed how I was searching. Every email has a header with a date and time stamp in a consistent format. If I search for "11 Sep 2007" or "12 Sep 2007" I get a lot of communications from that specific day regardless of who sent it, who received it, or what keywords it contains. I do not need Acosta's emails if I have emails sent to him, emails copying him, and emails between other people discussing what he said or decided.
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Now, we have been told for years that we cannot fully understand how the illegal NPA (non-prosecution agreement) came to be because Alex Acosta's emails are missing.
The Department of Justice Office of Inspector General documented in 2020 that there is an eleven-month gap in Acosta's email records covering exactly the period when the Non-Prosecution Agreement was being negotiated. Officials claim it was "most likely due to a technological error". As attorney Paul Cassell (representing victim Courtney Wild) told ABC News: "The gap seems to have surgically struck on exactly the time period when most of the big decisions were being made."
Then I realized something that changed how I was searching. Every email has a header with a date and time stamp in a consistent format. If I search for "11 Sep 2007" or "12 Sep 2007" I get a lot of communications from that specific day regardless of who sent it, who received it, or what keywords it contains. I do not need Acosta's emails if I have emails sent to him, emails copying him, and emails between other people discussing what he said or decided.
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Much more after this short excerpt.
