reSee.it Podcast Summary
Whitney Webb announces that her book One Nation Under Blackmail is finished and runs a little over 800 pages (excluding citations). It argues Jeffrey Epstein was not an anomaly but part of a long-running transnational network that blends organized crime and intelligence. The project began in January 2020, and publication is slated for September 22; print will be in two volumes due to supply-chain constraints, while the ebook and audiobook will be a single volume. Webb’s core thesis is to place Epstein in the context of a power structure she describes as the Enterprise, a cross-border, multi-faction network that predates the Reagan era and operates through arms trafficking, drugs, and subversion, with little regard for law or oversight. A late-eighties CIA whistleblower quote underscores this frame: “They are CEOs. They are bankers. They own airlines. They own national television networks… They will take over not only the CIA, but the entire government and the world.” The book traces this network from Operation Underworld in World War II, when the Office of Naval Intelligence joined forces with the National Crime Syndicate to the formation of a modern, transnational structure, showing how intelligence, organized crime, and oligarchs interlock.
Part I builds toward Epstein by detailing connections across Roy Cohn, Adnan Khashoggi, Bill Casey, the Bear Stearns era, and the Iran-Contra milieu, including the BCCI network, and describing how money laundering and off-books financing funded covert operations. Part II shifts to Epstein’s real estate network with Leslie Wexner and the Maxwell family, then to Clinton-era figures like Mark Middleton, the White House visits in 1993, and Epstein’s later involvement with the Clinton Foundation and Gates Foundation. Webb discusses the Promise software saga and Robert Maxwell, tying them to later Silicon Valley blackmail capabilities in the digital age. She argues there were two parallel sex-trafficking strands: a broad trafficking operation and an elite track grooming women as wives or companions to powerful figures.
The conclusion insists that this is a pattern worth official scrutiny, not a tale of isolated crime. Webb notes publication logistics, encourages readers to consider the ebook or audiobook for broader access, and promises more detailed discussions ahead as publication nears.