BREAKING REPORT: Newly released documents revealed Biden’s CIA Director William Burns met with deceased financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on multiple occasions after he was convicted of sex crimes in Florida, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The private calendar and emails show that Epstein scheduled three meetings with Burns in 2014 when Burns was deputy secretary of state under President Obama.
Their first meeting was planned for August in the Washington, DC office of law firm Steptoe & Johnson and the next two were booked for Epstein’s Manhattan, New York townhouse, the documents show. Epstein planned on having Burns taken back to the airport after one of the scheduled meetings.
A CIA spokesperson told WSJ Burns met with Epstein as he was preparing to leave the government and did not know anything about him. “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,” CIA spokesperson Tammy Kupperman Thorp told the outlet. “They had no relationship.”
Burns left government in October 2014 to become president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a prominent foreign policy think tank based in Washington, DC. He was appointed CIA Director by Biden in 2021.
The revelation that Burns had meetings with Epstein is not only concerning, but it also brings into question the judgment of the President, who appointed Burns to his current position. It is especially concerning considering the allegations against Epstein and the fact that he was convicted of sex crimes in Florida.
Epstein was accused of sexual abuse in 2005 by multiple underage girls, the youngest being 14 years old. The accusations led to an investigation by Palm Beach, Florida police who were prepared to charge Epstein with multiple counts of unlawful sex with a minor, according to the Associated Press (AP). State Attorney Barry Krischer intervened and Epstein ended up being arrested following an indictment for a single count of soliciting prostitution.
Epstein was convicted by Florida prosecutors in June 2008 for procuring a minor for prostitution and felony solicitation of prostitution. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and required to register as a sex offender. The conviction came after his lawyers arranged a plea bargain with the U.S. Attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, to avoid federal prosecution, per the AP.
Epstein spent the majority of his jail sentence under a work-release program and left jail in July 2009, while federal prosecutors secretly agreed not to prosecute Epstein for federal crimes.
He was later charged in July 2019 by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York for allegedly sex trafficking minors. Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 under mysterious circumstances. His partner and co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in June 2022 for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors.
Biden’s decision to appoint William Burns as CIA Director, after he apparently had multiple meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, has raised serious questions about the President’s poor judgement. It is even more concerning given the fact that Epstein was convicted of sex crimes in Florida. The public deserves to know why President Biden chose to appoint someone with such a questionable past.
Wow. CIA Director William Burns met multiple times with Jeffrey Epstein in 2014, well after Epstein was revealed as a sex criminal. Compromising on multiple levels. https://t.co/fsUJADISSP
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) April 30, 2023
It is also important to note that Epstein’s actions have caused great harm to many of his victims and their families. The victims deserve justice and it is important that all those who were involved in Epstein’s crimes are held accountable. We must ensure that no one can evade justice.
There must be a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding Burns’ meetings with Epstein, and into how Biden chose to appoint him to such an important position. It is essential that we get to the bottom of this so that justice can be served and the public can be reassured that their leaders are making the right decisions.
