Jeffrey Epstein's Calendar Leaked; No Big Deal, But He Repeatedly Met the Now-Director of the CIA in His Home

Also meeting with Epstein: leftwing ideologue Noam Chomskey and Obama's White House counsel.

The list of Jeffrey Epstein's possible connections now includes America's spy chief, a college president and a former Obama White House counsel, according to a collection of previously unreported documents that included the convicted sex offender's schedules.

The trove of papers, obtained by the Wall Street Journal, shows meetings between Epstein and several prominent people, including three with William Burns, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, when he was the deputy secretary of state in 2014.

These prominent people have not been accused of any wrongdoing, and have all maintained that their connections with Epstein were purely professional or social.

None of the names appeared in Epstein's "black book" of contacts, the Journal reported, or in the flight logs of passengers who traveled on his private jet.

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The documents show Noam Chomsky, the author, activist and professor, was scheduled to fly with Epstein and have dinner at his Manhattan home in 2015.

Leon Botstein, the longtime president of Bard College, met Epstein several times and even invited him to the campus, according to the Journal.

Kathryn Ruemmler, who served as White House counsel under President Barack Obama, met with Epstein dozens of times in the years between her White House career and her next job as an attorney at Goldman Sachs, the report said.

Epstein had also planned for her to be on two trips with him: a 2015 visit to Paris and a 2017 journey to his private island in the Caribbean, according to the Journal.

Most of the people included in the thousands of pages of emails and schedules from 2013 to 2017 told the Journal that they met with Epstein because of his wealth and connections.

Some said they thought he had been rehabilitated.

[Epstein] he killed himself before he could go to trial.

Did he though?

Burns, the 67-year-old CIA chief, met with Epstein about 10 years ago when he was looking to leave the government, CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp told the Journal.

"The director did not know anything about him, other than that he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector," she said. "They had no relationship."

Uh-huh.

But Burns, a career diplomat, had several scheduled meetings with Epstein in 2014.

Through Thorp, Burns said he remembered a mutual friend introducing them in Washington, and that he also met Epstein once in New York.

"The director does not recall any further contact," Thorp said.

"Does not recall" is Washington, DC's magic incantation to avoid a perjury rap.

Ruemmler had a professional relationship with Epstein because of her job at Latham & Watkins, a law firm, according to a Goldman Sachs spokesman.

Epstein appeared to know Ruemmler, the former White House counsel, fairly well, according to the Journal.

He visited apartments she thought about buying, knew her travel plans at times and planned meetings to introduce her to his friends after she left the White House in 2014.

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Chomsky and Epstein had a number of scheduled gatherings, including a planned dinner with Chomsky, his wife, Woody Allen and Allen's wife, Soon-Yi Previn, according to the documents.

Now there's nothing at all suss about that foursome!

posted by Ace at 01:13 PM

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