A recent report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that President Joe Biden’s CIA director William Burns met with the international sleazebag of mystery Jeffrey Epstein in 2014. So, what does The New York Times do based on that report? “The Gray Lady” published a glossy profile of Burns that ran cover for both America’s top spook as well as Epstein.
In late April, The Journal reported that Burns met with Epstein three times in 2014. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to procuring a minor for prostitution and received a lenient punishment. That raised the question, how and why did Burns — who was deputy secretary of state at the time — meet with Epstein?
CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp defended the meetings. “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 the transition to the private sector,” she told The Journal. “They had no…