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cbabe

(6,389 posts)
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 09:40 AM 12 hrs ago

Epstein Theil Mandelson Vance

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220996815

Jeffrey Epstein 'Co-Owned' Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/jeffrey-epstein-and-peter-thiel-co-owned-venture-fund-as-thiels-palantir-entered-uk-government/

The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson
Nafeez Ahmed
4 February 2026

he Metropolitan Police investigation into Peter Mandelson over the leaking of sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein has established an unambiguous principle: those who seek to compromise the UK’s secrets to a foreign intelligence-linked sexual predator forfeit their access to power.

Mandelson was sacked as US Ambassador, has resigned his membership of the Labour Party, and has been forced to quit the House of Lords over ongoing revelations about his relationship to Epstein.

He now faces potential criminal charges for misconduct in public office.

Yet, the same convicted sex offender who received state secrets from Mandelson, was simultaneously a “co-owner” through a significant limited partnership investment of a Silicon Valley venture fund controlled by Peter Thiel – the billionaire founder of defence analytics giant Palantir Technologies, which now holds more than £670 million in UK Government contracts spanning nuclear weapons systems, NHS patient records, Ministry of Defence operations, and police intelligence databases.

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Financial Times
https://www.ft.com › content › 408fb864-5831-4b1d-beef-fd1966b3beed

How Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley funded the sudden rise of JD Vance

Jul 17, 2024The name of JD Vance's venture capital firm is a homage to fantasy author JRR Tolkien — and billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel. Co-founded by Vance in 2020, Narya Capital is a reference to ...



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Epstein Theil Mandelson Vance (Original Post) cbabe 12 hrs ago OP
Once Cankles is gone, that's the next monster we'll have to deal with. Scrivener7 12 hrs ago #1
The rot is deep and goes all the way UpInArms 12 hrs ago #2
And down into its roots. 2naSalit 10 hrs ago #3
The Aspens Kid Berwyn 10 hrs ago #5
Not to be... 2naSalit 10 hrs ago #6
You can judge a NAZI by the company he controls. Kid Berwyn 10 hrs ago #4

Kid Berwyn

(23,623 posts)
5. The Aspens
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:44 AM
10 hrs ago
Scooter Libby, Judy Miller and those turning aspens

What did Libby mean in his cryptic letter to Miller? She provides some clues.


By TIM GRIEVE
Salon, January 31, 2007

Scooter Libby’s September 2005 letter to the then imprisoned Judy Miller created one of the great enduring mysteries of the Valerie Plame saga. Urging Miller to give up her fight against Patrick Fitzgerald’s subpoena, Libby wrote: “You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover — Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work — to life.”

Snip…

Fitzgerald asked Miller if she’d ever had occasion to talk with Libby after the two meetings at which she said he told her that Joseph Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA. Yes, she said, she ran into him in August 2003 at a rodeo in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Miller said she didn’t recognize Libby at first; he was wearing cowboy boots, jeans, a black T-shirt and sunglasses, and she’d only seem him in suits before. Once Libby identified himself — “Judy … it’s Scooter” — Miller said that they talked for a bit. Fitzgerald asked Miller what they discussed. “It was just some banter about the meeting at Aspen I had just come from … a meeting of the Aspen Strategy Group.”

The Aspen Strategy Group was and is a veritable who’s who of the Washington foreign policy–media establishment. Its co-chairmen are Brent Scowcroft, the national security advisor for George H.W. Bush, and Joe Nye, who served in the State Department under Jimmy Carter and in the Defense Department under Bill Clinton. In August 2003, its members included Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Jane Harman, former Defense Secretary Bill Perry, former CIA Director James Woolsey, Times reporter David Sanger, a slew of think tank and foundation types — and Miller herself.

So are members of the Aspen Strategy Group the “aspens” of which Libby wrote? They meet “out west,” where Libby had seen Miller on vacation. And like arboreal aspens, the members of the group are closely “connected,” not only at the “roots” — early members of the group included Walter Mondale, Paul Nitze, Les Aspin, Zbigniew Brzezinski and and Robert McNamara — but also at the branches. A profile of the group posted on its Web site says it’s “credited” with launching many careers, including that of Condoleezza Rice; Scowcroft invited her to start attending meetings in the 1980s because, he said, “I thought I should get to know her better and introduce her to some of these groups who would move her along.”

But if the members of the Aspen group are the aspens in Libby’s letter, what did he mean when he said that they would “already be turning”? Some have suggested that Libby meant to say — in between his not-so-subtle hints that Miller should testify that they had never talked about Joseph Wilson’s wife — that someone affiliated with the Aspen group had “turned” and begun cooperating with Fitzgerald’s investigation. Maybe that’s right, although the only flipped witness we’ve seen so far is Ari Fleischer, and he’s not so Aspeny.

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https://www.salon.com/2007/01/31/aspens/

Kid Berwyn

(23,623 posts)
4. You can judge a NAZI by the company he controls.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:31 AM
10 hrs ago

UK are gonna lock up a lot of them, especially if they want to keep their monarchy.

Andrew is gonna make a star witness at the Inquisition.

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