I was talking to my sister over the weekend. She lives in Norway so she is exposed to different sources of information over there,
She told me that her impression was that this whole underage girl peddling thing seems more like a side hustle for Epstein while and the main hustle is the bigger crime that's being sidelined because of the sensationalistic nature of the pedo angle. She didn't have any specifics but it was the bigger picture that seems to be emerging over there from the point of view of who's being caught in the net. Mostly, I suspect, where the emphasis is placed from the Norwegian/European point of view.
We do know that Epstein was pimping Palantir to Ehud Barak (?) at some point. And taking a higher level view to these files, you do get the impression that what Epstein was running was not just some teenage girl sex ring, but an influence peddling operation, primarily, even an intelligence operation so to speak, with connections in multiple intelligence organizations. If there was ever a secret cabal that was running the world behind the curtains, Epstein seems to have been the nerve center to the whole operation. He seems to have been the operand that connects the dots, so to speak.
We know there are veiled references to murder in the emails. We also see how antidemocratic forces are exchanges notes in the emails. And that's the stuff that someone was "taking notes on a criminal f*cking conspiracy".
I'm going to keep my antennas tuned in to that possibility ... that the whole human trafficking bit was not what the essence of the Epstein Island is all about, but there was an even bigger cascade of crimes being committed there, one that determines the fate of quite a few nations and maybe millions of people.