Patrick Byrne, founder and former CEO of Overstock, has inserted himself in the ongoing political scandal commonly known as "Spygate" with bizarre tales of top American intelligence officials luring him into ostensibly patriotic espionage activity against American presidential candidates. Spying on fellow Americans? In America? Unbelievable.
I believe it. I am also eager to learn what Byrne told William Barr in his two April 2019 interviews with the Attorney General. And what was Byrne's impetus for resigning from Overstock on August 22 and going public with his involvement in a treasonous political conspiracy?
Could there be a Jeffrey Epstein connection here?
Epstein was arrested on July 6, only weeks after Byrne went to the DOJ. He was being investigated by the Public Corruption Unit of the Southern District of New York. That's public corruption--not the sex crimes division. "Public corruption" are words that could certainly be used to describe "Spygate." If the feds were just revisiting Epstein's lurid past, double jeopardy issues would have arisen, due to his controversial 2008 plea deal. These issues may very well have protected Epstein from legal consequences.
Former Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, who, as U.S. Attorney, approved that absurdly lenient plea deal, reportedly defended his actions by stating he was told to back off from prosecuting Epstein because the infamous international figure was being protected by the intelligence community.
Sounds ridiculous, right? On the other hand, Epstein clearly had very many connections in very high places.
On August 10, Epstein severed his ties to political and intelligence elites by being found dead in his jail cell. Suicide, we are told.
Could this death have scared Byrne into believing he himself was in danger of committing an involuntary suicide? Did his close friend and mentor Warren Buffett tell Byrne to go public before the intelligence community could also silence him forever? The timing of Byrne's sudden tell-all seems too close to Epstein's death to be wholly coincidental.
According to Byrne, FBI agent Peter Strzok was the "errand boy" who orchestrated his involvement with Russian national Maria Butina, who was attempting to insinuate herself into high level Republican political circles. It seems her associations with Trump campaign figures was at least part of what the FISA courts accepted as justification for spying on American citizens. Was the putative "Russian interference in our elections" really all coming from our own side? And did Byrne come to realize that?
The feds had Butina arrested and held in isolation. For all Byrne knew, maybe this Russian would-be honeypot was headed for a "suicide," too.
Butina wasn't the only attractive young woman involved in spying on Americans. Former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos went to jail on obviously trumped-up charges when he failed to respond as hoped to the inducements of other "honeypots" who were placed in his path.
Hmmm, honeypots. They represent a sordid abandonment of human decency used by corrupt practitioners of espionage. Who had a seemingly unending supply of potential "honeypots?" Jeffrey Epstein? And who fit the words "sordid abandonment of human decency" and "corrupt practitioner" better than the now mysteriously room-temperature Jeffrey Epstein?
Those of us who are intrigued by mysteries--and even write them ourselves--will pay close attention to the volcanic revelations about to erupt from the DOJ.
