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One Nation Under Blackmail – Vol. 2: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein Vol. 2
One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence and organized crime directly developed the sexual blackmail tactics and networks that would later enable the sexual blackmail operation and other crimes of deceased pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Other books on Jeffrey Epstein focus on the depraved nature of his crimes, his wealth, and his most famous/politically-connected friends and acquaintances. This book, in contrast, reveals the extent to which Epstein's activities were state-sponsored through an exploration of his intelligence connections.
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First published January 1, 2022
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Whitney Alyse Webb
2 books777 followersWhitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher, and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News. She currently writes for Unlimited Hangout and contributes to The Last American Vagabond. She also hosts an independent podcast called Unlimited Hangout. Her work aims to highlight under-reported issues and find common ground between people of different political persuasions regarding corruption, government overreach, the lack of accountability for militaries and intelligence agencies, and the military industrial complex.
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November 20, 2022
This is an exceptionally well-researched book. There is a lot of material but it is well-organized and is not delivered in a preachy tone - yet nevertheless delivers a powerful message. When I went to university (now over 50 years ago), I took courses in Political Science and History. Not once, in those courses, did the word "Corruption" come up. Now, over 50 years later and having experienced more of life, I can see that my professors failed to do their job in a most fundamental way. Knowing the dates of battles and learning the structure of various types of government is one thing - and there is some value in that, of course. But unfortunately Corruption is at the center of many political decisions - and omitting that aspect in the academic analysis of events is a very serious shortcoming. Ms. Webb's book goes a long way toward filling that gap. I admire the work ethic that produced this very complete book - the book reflects a tremendous amount of effort. Hopefully, a university professor or two will read it - and will rethink the way they teach History and Political Science. A dose of reality is overdue.
September 24, 2022
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May 21, 2023
See my review of both books
HERE
Caution, my review might bore you to death. Sorry!
Caution, my review might bore you to death. Sorry!
December 13, 2022
In my review of Volume 1 of One Nation Under Blackmail, I made a prediction about where I thought the author was going with her detailed documentation of the networks that linked organized crime, high finance, intelligence agencies, and ostensibly quotidian politics to the pedophilic operation of Jeffrey Epstein & Co.
I'm going to go with: "I was in the general neighborhood." I wasn't entirely correct, but I was partially correct. Jeffrey Epstein was one character in a very large, diverse cast and--like some characters in big, complicated stories--he had to be taken out. The story just couldn't go on with him in it. His use to the overarching plot had reached its limit.
In Volume 2, the author continues her meticulous attention to the links between these actors and their networks to round out her picture of not just American but global politics. That picture is, if anything, bleak. Blackmail operations like Epstein's (and which, importantly, did not begin with Epstein) are part and parcel of the way the modern world works. The greatest problem is, according to Webb's final analysis, that given the exponential growth in technology over the last few decades, these operations are no longer confined to internecine, intra-network turf wars. Instead, they can be, have been, and are expanded to include regular people like you and me.
Getting the rich and powerful of the world to sleep with young girls was a means to an end: gaining leverage and influence. Now, the pervasiveness of technology makes this much easier, since through our data, we willingly give up the means to that control. In the end, Webb's two-volume work is not just a well-researched example of investigative journalism, but it is also a call to action, to resistance, and to an exit from this rapidly expanding dystopian plot within which Jeffrey Epstein was just one fairly minor, albeit important and revelatory, piece of the story.
I'm going to go with: "I was in the general neighborhood." I wasn't entirely correct, but I was partially correct. Jeffrey Epstein was one character in a very large, diverse cast and--like some characters in big, complicated stories--he had to be taken out. The story just couldn't go on with him in it. His use to the overarching plot had reached its limit.
In Volume 2, the author continues her meticulous attention to the links between these actors and their networks to round out her picture of not just American but global politics. That picture is, if anything, bleak. Blackmail operations like Epstein's (and which, importantly, did not begin with Epstein) are part and parcel of the way the modern world works. The greatest problem is, according to Webb's final analysis, that given the exponential growth in technology over the last few decades, these operations are no longer confined to internecine, intra-network turf wars. Instead, they can be, have been, and are expanded to include regular people like you and me.
Getting the rich and powerful of the world to sleep with young girls was a means to an end: gaining leverage and influence. Now, the pervasiveness of technology makes this much easier, since through our data, we willingly give up the means to that control. In the end, Webb's two-volume work is not just a well-researched example of investigative journalism, but it is also a call to action, to resistance, and to an exit from this rapidly expanding dystopian plot within which Jeffrey Epstein was just one fairly minor, albeit important and revelatory, piece of the story.
May 13, 2025
Wholeheartedly encourage everyone to read, but be forewarned it is a difficult slog.
July 1, 2025
The Jeffrey Epstein saga.
Oh what a tangled web we weave as Webb shows here.
Data is the new oil and with surveillance companies like Palantir calling the shots, using algorithms to track everything and everyone,the average individual is totally vulnerable to be hacked and blackmailed as many powerful people were by Jeffrey Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell by providing influential powerful people with young women for sex and secretly filming, photographing and saving the data of these meetings for use by even more powerful people.
Hence the need to silence and disappear him, then calling it a case closed suicide.
Robert Maxwell the publishing magnate and father of Ghislaine provided the blueprint for what was to come and he too also passed in mysterious circumstances.
Are there others out there doing what Epstein did , probably.
Oh what a tangled web we weave as Webb shows here.
Data is the new oil and with surveillance companies like Palantir calling the shots, using algorithms to track everything and everyone,the average individual is totally vulnerable to be hacked and blackmailed as many powerful people were by Jeffrey Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell by providing influential powerful people with young women for sex and secretly filming, photographing and saving the data of these meetings for use by even more powerful people.
Hence the need to silence and disappear him, then calling it a case closed suicide.
Robert Maxwell the publishing magnate and father of Ghislaine provided the blueprint for what was to come and he too also passed in mysterious circumstances.
Are there others out there doing what Epstein did , probably.
March 6, 2023
The continuation of the how. who, and when of how we got where we are today, with source foot notes. An illuminating, almost overwhelming compendium of historical threads of the events, decisions, decision makers, funders, and interrelated outcomes. You almost need a spread sheet to track individuals or organizations and their trails in this web. It reminds me of the TV series 'Blacklist'. For those who really want to know, there is a lot of information here.
February 12, 2023
It was hard to get hold of this book, and Volume I too, but I persisted and it was well worth it. This is a brave and painstakingly well-researched book that is sordid, sobering and shocking. It explains a lot about what is going on in the world right now. Oh, and look after your data!
June 9, 2023
Exceptional. You've got some guts Whitney. Keep writing!
February 12, 2025
The closing statements of this second book impact like a dropped pallet of bricks. Anyone with with even an ounce of logic may ascertain that the Epstein arrest, and staged "suicide", is the biggest burial of truth in modern times.
I first discovered Whitney by her captivating interviews with Natalie Brunnel. After that, I had to buy these books immediately. While the amount of information presented is staggering, a clearer picture emerged, showcasing the magnitude of corruption which has penetrated the highest echelons.
Whitney is tremendously brave to expose the web of relationships which link several national governments with organized crime, various intelligence agencies, and many big corporations. We are all subject to this corruption, of which Epstein was only one figure, as it's tentacles are vast and deeply linked to the surveillance state.
I first discovered Whitney by her captivating interviews with Natalie Brunnel. After that, I had to buy these books immediately. While the amount of information presented is staggering, a clearer picture emerged, showcasing the magnitude of corruption which has penetrated the highest echelons.
Whitney is tremendously brave to expose the web of relationships which link several national governments with organized crime, various intelligence agencies, and many big corporations. We are all subject to this corruption, of which Epstein was only one figure, as it's tentacles are vast and deeply linked to the surveillance state.
July 2, 2023
I read volume I and my review is there. Volume 2 is awesome in its true meaning. The confluence of power, control, money, lies, deception, and fear come to light in this investigative marvel. As Russia, the US, China, Israel and UK play games of hide and seek, men like Jeffrey Epstein (Wexner, Wasserman, Trump, Gates) play with fire to exploit people, companies and countries for their own personal influence. When you add unscrupulous leaders (Clinton, Reagan, and other countries as names above), the rest of us our numbed and misinformed by our loss of access and correct data/ history associated with the corrupt events and kind games.
I applaud Whitney Webb's courage to share her findings and it is incumbent on us to catch ourselves about what is real and what are coerced lies that we are told.
I applaud Whitney Webb's courage to share her findings and it is incumbent on us to catch ourselves about what is real and what are coerced lies that we are told.
January 11, 2023
Utterly fascinating! The research is impecable.
February 17, 2026
In One Nation Under Blackmail, Volume 2: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Whitney Webb extends the investigative project initiated in the first volume and reframes the notorious Jeffrey Epstein case within a broader historical and structural analysis of covert power networks in the United States. Building upon the thesis that organized crime and intelligence agencies have long operated in tandem, Webb’s second installment positions Epstein not as an aberrant criminal but as a node in a sprawling apparatus of blackmail, state collusion, and elite protection. 
Volume 2 foregrounds Epstein’s ascent and the milieu that enabled his longevity, drawing connections between his social, financial, and intelligence ties and longstanding patterns of institutional complicity. Webb situates figures such as Leslie Wexner and Ghislaine Maxwell within these networks, probing how their roles intersected with Epstein’s operations and how intelligence-linked strategies of leverage were applied to secure impunity and influence. The work also explores the evolution of blackmail from pre-digital entrapment to surveillance-driven forms of control in the digital era, suggesting that exploitative tactics have adapted alongside technological shifts. 
The analytical ambition of this volume is considerable: Webb challenges orthodox narratives that treat Epstein’s crimes as isolated failings of wealth and moral depravity, instead arguing for their embeddedness in structural abuses of power. This reframing invites readers to consider how intelligence agencies, private finance, and organized crime might cooperate in ways that subvert accountability. While this approach can be unsettling and, at times, speculative, it stimulates critical reflection on the limitations of conventional historical and political explanations for elite immunity and systemic corruption. 
Despite its conceptual breadth, Volume 2 shares some of the stylistic and methodological constraints evident in Webb’s broader oeuvre. The narrative density and sheer volume of interconnected claims can overwhelm readers, and the movement from documented fact to inferential hypothesis is not always sufficiently delineated. As with much investigative historiography that synthesizes a wide array of sources, the line between compelling reconstruction and conjecture occasionally blurs, posing challenges for readers seeking clear evidentiary thresholds. Moreover, the work’s critical stance toward mainstream media and institutional narratives—while a vital corrective in some respects—would benefit from more systematic engagement with scholarly counterarguments and alternative interpretations. 
Nonetheless, Webb’s meticulous compilation of historical detail and her insistence on tracing continuity across time and institution make this volume a provocative addition to discussions about power, secrecy, and influence. For academics interested in the intersections of intelligence history, political economy, and the sociology of elites, Volume 2 offers a dense and thought-provoking intervention that challenges readers to reassess received wisdom about crime, statecraft, and accountability in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
GPT
Volume 2 foregrounds Epstein’s ascent and the milieu that enabled his longevity, drawing connections between his social, financial, and intelligence ties and longstanding patterns of institutional complicity. Webb situates figures such as Leslie Wexner and Ghislaine Maxwell within these networks, probing how their roles intersected with Epstein’s operations and how intelligence-linked strategies of leverage were applied to secure impunity and influence. The work also explores the evolution of blackmail from pre-digital entrapment to surveillance-driven forms of control in the digital era, suggesting that exploitative tactics have adapted alongside technological shifts. 
The analytical ambition of this volume is considerable: Webb challenges orthodox narratives that treat Epstein’s crimes as isolated failings of wealth and moral depravity, instead arguing for their embeddedness in structural abuses of power. This reframing invites readers to consider how intelligence agencies, private finance, and organized crime might cooperate in ways that subvert accountability. While this approach can be unsettling and, at times, speculative, it stimulates critical reflection on the limitations of conventional historical and political explanations for elite immunity and systemic corruption. 
Despite its conceptual breadth, Volume 2 shares some of the stylistic and methodological constraints evident in Webb’s broader oeuvre. The narrative density and sheer volume of interconnected claims can overwhelm readers, and the movement from documented fact to inferential hypothesis is not always sufficiently delineated. As with much investigative historiography that synthesizes a wide array of sources, the line between compelling reconstruction and conjecture occasionally blurs, posing challenges for readers seeking clear evidentiary thresholds. Moreover, the work’s critical stance toward mainstream media and institutional narratives—while a vital corrective in some respects—would benefit from more systematic engagement with scholarly counterarguments and alternative interpretations. 
Nonetheless, Webb’s meticulous compilation of historical detail and her insistence on tracing continuity across time and institution make this volume a provocative addition to discussions about power, secrecy, and influence. For academics interested in the intersections of intelligence history, political economy, and the sociology of elites, Volume 2 offers a dense and thought-provoking intervention that challenges readers to reassess received wisdom about crime, statecraft, and accountability in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
GPT
February 8, 2025
I've long been a cynic with respect to my trust in so-called republican / democratic government, *especially* when it comes to our foreign policy. The US has been the sycophantic lapdog for Israeli interests since the Johnson administration, at least, which I researched and documented myself in a research paper at Air University.
Little did I know the extent and depth to which this corruption actually sank prior to reading Webb's extensively documented analysis.
In this two-volume work, she demonstrates that organized crime, foreign policy, national and foreign intelligence, arms dealing, sex trafficking, and the buying and selling of politicians *are all one interrelated and interconnected web of corruption* protecting one another's interests and insured against exposure by blackmail, especially but not limited to sexual blackmail.
And no one escapes the author's penetrating gaze. If you think Vince Foster's "suicide" was suspicious, you're not alone. If you believe FLOTUS personally authored his suicide note to cover up actual espionage against the US from the White House, well that would be worth investigating, no? But does it also tie to the Iran-Contra affair from two administrations previous? And to Watergate? And to Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump and Joe McCarthy and the Mossad?
If you've previously made all those connections, there is no need to read this book. But if you haven't and you're willing to be disabused of your misplaced trust in the American political system (D or R, it doesn't matter), this is a must-read.
The first volume is the background analysis of the organized crime, intelligence, and criminal "prosecution" networks that created and enabled Jeffrey Epstein, whereas the second volume deals more directly with his direct actions that are oh-so-more-involved than simply sex trafficking.
It is possible that the recent collapse of the mainstream media and rise of the independent journalists not beholden to the common ownership of the former will begin the process of removing the wool long ago pulled over the public's eye.
Or one can hope.
Little did I know the extent and depth to which this corruption actually sank prior to reading Webb's extensively documented analysis.
In this two-volume work, she demonstrates that organized crime, foreign policy, national and foreign intelligence, arms dealing, sex trafficking, and the buying and selling of politicians *are all one interrelated and interconnected web of corruption* protecting one another's interests and insured against exposure by blackmail, especially but not limited to sexual blackmail.
And no one escapes the author's penetrating gaze. If you think Vince Foster's "suicide" was suspicious, you're not alone. If you believe FLOTUS personally authored his suicide note to cover up actual espionage against the US from the White House, well that would be worth investigating, no? But does it also tie to the Iran-Contra affair from two administrations previous? And to Watergate? And to Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump and Joe McCarthy and the Mossad?
If you've previously made all those connections, there is no need to read this book. But if you haven't and you're willing to be disabused of your misplaced trust in the American political system (D or R, it doesn't matter), this is a must-read.
The first volume is the background analysis of the organized crime, intelligence, and criminal "prosecution" networks that created and enabled Jeffrey Epstein, whereas the second volume deals more directly with his direct actions that are oh-so-more-involved than simply sex trafficking.
It is possible that the recent collapse of the mainstream media and rise of the independent journalists not beholden to the common ownership of the former will begin the process of removing the wool long ago pulled over the public's eye.
Or one can hope.
November 19, 2023
Like Vol.1, Vol. 2 is jammed packed with names, names, and more names. Too many for this reader to keep up with...So...I speed read this book where I picked up all the major themes. And, I expected a more, closer, look at Jeffery Epstein than it gave, but it did expose his corrupt business dealings in detail in the '80's & early '90's that led to his sex trafficking...Over-all I now look at these two Vol.'s as good research material for crime in America over the last 100 years. The detailed foot-notes & links to articles will be especially helpful to all researchers...3 outta 5 stars
October 8, 2023
These books are disgusting
These books are disgusting evidence that we should signofficantly tax the rich or modify our economics to prevent the accumulation of cast wealth in the hands of A few who too easily buy our politicians and distract politicians from their representative duty to their citizenry. Every where government fails to address citizens needs is a invitation to organized crime to enter the lives of underserved citizens.
These books are disgusting evidence that we should signofficantly tax the rich or modify our economics to prevent the accumulation of cast wealth in the hands of A few who too easily buy our politicians and distract politicians from their representative duty to their citizenry. Every where government fails to address citizens needs is a invitation to organized crime to enter the lives of underserved citizens.
November 17, 2022
A very informative book which should become a best seller and lead to debate, justice and reform. There are a lot of names and organisations to keep track of but there are notes and an index and the sources are all referenced. I will read it a second time to absorb it all. Whitney Webb should be on TV and interviewed about the scandals uncovered in her book. Very interesting indeed.
February 21, 2026
In Vol I, Webb focused primarily on the long history of blackmail that created a world in which Epstein could thrive. In Vol II, she focuses almost entirely on Epstein, his activities, associates, etc.
As always, Webb is incredibly well researched. This volume does a great job of giving readers the Who-What-When-Where of everything related to Epstein. As for the 'Why,' Webb focuses heavily on Epstein's ties to organized crime, the CIA, and Israel. But this part has been made outdated by the release of the Epstein files, which clearly show most of his activities were on behalf of Israel.
While the Epstein files have been disturbing and shed extra light on what happened and why, Webb's book provides the valuable service of tying everything together to make it easier for readers to understand the infrastructure that supported him.
As always, Webb is incredibly well researched. This volume does a great job of giving readers the Who-What-When-Where of everything related to Epstein. As for the 'Why,' Webb focuses heavily on Epstein's ties to organized crime, the CIA, and Israel. But this part has been made outdated by the release of the Epstein files, which clearly show most of his activities were on behalf of Israel.
While the Epstein files have been disturbing and shed extra light on what happened and why, Webb's book provides the valuable service of tying everything together to make it easier for readers to understand the infrastructure that supported him.
July 29, 2025
This two volume book is an essential companion read for graduates of the American public school system. Our history classes ended with “the good guys won WWII and everyone lived happily ever after.” This book picks up from there.
How did we go from military intelligence coordinating with organized crime to protect eastern ports to a convicted pedophile rubbing shoulders with the most influential political and business leaders in the world? Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, Bill Gates, George Mitchell, Donald Trump all counted Jeff as a close friend. Why?
This book isn’t about Jeff Epstein. It’s about how the post world war 2 world was shaped by guys exactly like him. In fact, I’d say the book is about how Jeff is not unique at all.
Why didn’t J Edgar Hoover ever go after the mob despite being the nation’s chief law enforcement officer for 35 years? It seems that might have something to do with the photos Myer Lansky (the mob’s money launderer) had of Hoover at gay orgies organized by Roy Cohn at the blue room in the plaza hotel. The same Roy Cohn who Donald Trump has described as his mentor. It wasn’t until Bobby Kennedy came along that any serious federal efforts were made at breaking up organized crime. Conveniently, he and his pesky brother died before making much of an impact.
Webb does a deep dive on the financial aspects of organized crime and the network of politicians, dirty bankers, and organized crime leaders who made it all possible. The same patterns and organizations keep popping up.
American and Israeli intelligence teamed up to sell weapons to Iran to fund Nicaraguan contras. The financial mechanisms used to disguise these transfers contributed to the savings and loan crisis.
American intelligence stole Inslaw’s PROMIS software and sold it, via a front company to American law enforcement. This gave American intelligence access for the first time to a centralized database of detailed information about American citizens. They teamed up with Mossad and sold it to dozens of countries. Israeli intelligence thought it was such a good idea that they took the software, modified it for military use, added back door access, and sold it back to us via Robert Maxwell. This allowed Israeli intelligence to have real time access to what was going on at Sandia Nuclear Lab. Luckily they never used that back door!! All those people at Sandia and the CIA who cautioned against using the software at sensitive military bases were such worrywarts.
Robert Maxwell of course was British and American publishing titan. Owned several newspapers including the NY post. Owned McGraw hill publishing which published the same history textbooks that ended with “the good guys won WW2 and everyone lived happily ever after.” He was also “Israel’s super spy” and had close connections with Rafi Eitan. His daughter was ghislaine Maxwell, who had no connections with any organized crime or intelligence services.
The second volume of the book tracks Epsteins rise from a high school math teacher with no college degree to the kind of guy who gets invited to Clinton’s White House 36 times. How Jeff and Ghislaine used their connections to court influence and procure women and girls to convince powerful men to see things their way. Eg Epstein helped smooth things over with Clinton when the DOD raised alarms about Israel selling American military secrets to china)
More important than the “how” of the sexual blackmail, Webb focuses on the why. What did Epstein and Maxwell use their immense influence and blackmail material for? There are specific examples that Webb points to, but the answer is too broad for a quick summary. And frankly, most of the most controversial parts of this story are classified and will remain that way for our lifetimes.
This book is about the way organized crime and intelligence have become intertwined over the years to the point that in many cases it’s hard to tell which is which. Powerful people and interests use sexual blackmail to help influence the world to benefit themselves and the people they care about. And none of them care one iota about you or me. Everyone should read this book. It made me less patriotic and more cynical about the stories we’re told about who’s on our side.
It’s incredibly well researched and Webbs works cited section lasts several pages. I stopped reading to go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole several times. Each chapter could and should be its own book. The nature of intelligence related research is that it includes single source claims and speculation based on limited public evidence. There are some claims Webb makes that I’m skeptical of, and many more than I pray are not true. But the depth of her research is obvious and her overall thesis is undeniable: powerful people use their influence to tilt world events in their favor. They’re willing to use whatever methods they can to increase their influence over the world to benefit themselves and people in their network.
This is not the best written non-fiction book I’ve ever read, and it can get tedious at times—hence 3 stars. But I’m not sure that I’ve ever read a more important book in my life.
How did we go from military intelligence coordinating with organized crime to protect eastern ports to a convicted pedophile rubbing shoulders with the most influential political and business leaders in the world? Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, Bill Gates, George Mitchell, Donald Trump all counted Jeff as a close friend. Why?
This book isn’t about Jeff Epstein. It’s about how the post world war 2 world was shaped by guys exactly like him. In fact, I’d say the book is about how Jeff is not unique at all.
Why didn’t J Edgar Hoover ever go after the mob despite being the nation’s chief law enforcement officer for 35 years? It seems that might have something to do with the photos Myer Lansky (the mob’s money launderer) had of Hoover at gay orgies organized by Roy Cohn at the blue room in the plaza hotel. The same Roy Cohn who Donald Trump has described as his mentor. It wasn’t until Bobby Kennedy came along that any serious federal efforts were made at breaking up organized crime. Conveniently, he and his pesky brother died before making much of an impact.
Webb does a deep dive on the financial aspects of organized crime and the network of politicians, dirty bankers, and organized crime leaders who made it all possible. The same patterns and organizations keep popping up.
American and Israeli intelligence teamed up to sell weapons to Iran to fund Nicaraguan contras. The financial mechanisms used to disguise these transfers contributed to the savings and loan crisis.
American intelligence stole Inslaw’s PROMIS software and sold it, via a front company to American law enforcement. This gave American intelligence access for the first time to a centralized database of detailed information about American citizens. They teamed up with Mossad and sold it to dozens of countries. Israeli intelligence thought it was such a good idea that they took the software, modified it for military use, added back door access, and sold it back to us via Robert Maxwell. This allowed Israeli intelligence to have real time access to what was going on at Sandia Nuclear Lab. Luckily they never used that back door!! All those people at Sandia and the CIA who cautioned against using the software at sensitive military bases were such worrywarts.
Robert Maxwell of course was British and American publishing titan. Owned several newspapers including the NY post. Owned McGraw hill publishing which published the same history textbooks that ended with “the good guys won WW2 and everyone lived happily ever after.” He was also “Israel’s super spy” and had close connections with Rafi Eitan. His daughter was ghislaine Maxwell, who had no connections with any organized crime or intelligence services.
The second volume of the book tracks Epsteins rise from a high school math teacher with no college degree to the kind of guy who gets invited to Clinton’s White House 36 times. How Jeff and Ghislaine used their connections to court influence and procure women and girls to convince powerful men to see things their way. Eg Epstein helped smooth things over with Clinton when the DOD raised alarms about Israel selling American military secrets to china)
More important than the “how” of the sexual blackmail, Webb focuses on the why. What did Epstein and Maxwell use their immense influence and blackmail material for? There are specific examples that Webb points to, but the answer is too broad for a quick summary. And frankly, most of the most controversial parts of this story are classified and will remain that way for our lifetimes.
This book is about the way organized crime and intelligence have become intertwined over the years to the point that in many cases it’s hard to tell which is which. Powerful people and interests use sexual blackmail to help influence the world to benefit themselves and the people they care about. And none of them care one iota about you or me. Everyone should read this book. It made me less patriotic and more cynical about the stories we’re told about who’s on our side.
It’s incredibly well researched and Webbs works cited section lasts several pages. I stopped reading to go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole several times. Each chapter could and should be its own book. The nature of intelligence related research is that it includes single source claims and speculation based on limited public evidence. There are some claims Webb makes that I’m skeptical of, and many more than I pray are not true. But the depth of her research is obvious and her overall thesis is undeniable: powerful people use their influence to tilt world events in their favor. They’re willing to use whatever methods they can to increase their influence over the world to benefit themselves and people in their network.
This is not the best written non-fiction book I’ve ever read, and it can get tedious at times—hence 3 stars. But I’m not sure that I’ve ever read a more important book in my life.
July 10, 2025
Very informative and scary considering that we all know how this ended.
June 24, 2025
More dense than a brick wall but at least once you drill through its contents… you just get the reward of depression and your bliss ripped away from you. Very, very important book. 4 stars.
October 19, 2025
Mind boggling!
Whitney Webb is nothing short of genius and meticulous in her work. This should be required reading to assist future generations in preparation of correcting the on going assault on democracy and individual freedoms and privacy by the billionaire and intelligence classes. A stunning piece of work that honestly has left me speechless.
Whitney Webb is nothing short of genius and meticulous in her work. This should be required reading to assist future generations in preparation of correcting the on going assault on democracy and individual freedoms and privacy by the billionaire and intelligence classes. A stunning piece of work that honestly has left me speechless.
October 27, 2025
I finally got around to finishing volume 2. It comes at the perfect time, as I now have another piece of the Deep State puzzle locked into place. More on that later...
The book, as a whole, is very dense. It’s incredibly well-sourced. But sometimes it’s hard to follow with regard to the money and companies and ties and backroom deals. Some of that I didn’t really follow, even though it’s arguably just as revelatory and criminal as the more salacious stuff. It is insanely thorough and it serves as a valuable thru-line for the US and Israeli Deep State Machinations. A MUST READ for anyone interested in the Epstein coverup conspiracy, even after all that’s happened since the book’s release. I hope there are revised versions in the years to come as HOPEFULLY more is revealed.
One of my favorite parts was something I didn’t know much about: the full story of Vince Foster, one of the people on the Clinton Body Count. Taking the book at face value, the conspiracy to murder and cover up by Hillary Clinton and/or Israel seems quite obvious and logical, in a Machiavellian sense. I hope to learn more about that.
READ THIS BOOK!!!!
Here’s a recap: The “Deep State” is a consortium of unaccountable corporate oligarchs, banking institutions, intelligence agencies, military operatives, and organized crime elements operating without the consent of the governed to maintain US imperial hegemony, defeat the US’s geopolitical enemies (foreign and domestic), maintain capitalism, and corrupt profiteering by any means necessary. It goes by many names: “The Enterprise”, “The Power Elite”, “The Octopus”, among others. Though this book never actually mentions the term “Deep State”, that is ultimately what it’s about, and is easily one of the best books about its machinations.
Now I understand the Deep State even better since reading Vol 1 a few years ago.
As mentioned in the “Fort Bragg Cartel” book & review, in the wake of the CIA’s globe-spanning decades-long crime sprees revealed in the 1975 Church Committee, the Reagan admin shifted the majority of clandestine operations away from the civilian CIA and under the US military via “special operations,” “JSOC,” “Delta Force,” “G Squadron,” etc..
At the same time, the CIA and NSA began creating the Panopticon national & global surveillance regime. This got kickstarted with the Reagan admin & Israeli Intelligence, including Israeli Superspy Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine Maxwell), stealing the PROMIS software, inserting a backdoor, and selling it to other countries to facilitate Israeli spying. This was tied to the “Octopus Murders”, which investigative journalist Danny Casolaro was researching before he was murdered by those he was investigating. Don’t watch that dogshit 2024 Netflix pho-documentary “American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders.” That piece of trash was some sort of controlled opposition or astroturf propaganda, as it somehow, inexplicably, never mentioned Robert Maxwell or Israel. This is despite the fact that the connections were known as far back as 2003. That series is a disservice to the truth.
The 1980’s started the ~40-year transition of Deep State control over the masses, slowly shifting from the direct, active creation of sexual blackmail toward digital backdoors & surveillance capitalism as a means for control and blackmail of anyone that threatens the powers that be. Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell & family rode this wave nearly the whole way through. He was the go-to CIA-backed & Mossad-backed intelligence asset used to create and leverage sexual blackmail against enemies of Deep State Machinations & Israel starting in the 1990’s. Epstein and Maxwell were involved with Clinton’s illegal campaign financing during the 1996 presidential campaign. Epstein was helping George W. Bush pressure US Senators to invade Iraq in 2002-2003 via sexual blackmail. He worked to traffic and exploit women for decades, be that through good old-fashioned child rape, grooming young girls to help lure in more victims, or trafficking young women to become the arm candy, or even wives of, the power elite, likely including First Lady Melania Trump. Epstein and Maxwell were working with CIA and tech CEO’s to create surveillance software in the same vane as Ghislaine’s father in the 1980’s with PROMIS. PROMIS evolved into Maxwell-backed software Chiliad, which then merged with the post-9/11 “Total Information Awareness” (TIA) Program to eventually become Palantir. And, of course, Trump is now leveraging Palantir to orchestrate the US’s fascist takeover.
Only direct quote in this review: “Epstein’s decision to court and gather “dirt” on Big Tech scions, while also rebranding as a tech investor and entrepreneur, was carefully calculated. Indeed, he and the Maxwells were intimately aware of how the digital revolution was drastically reshaping the face of blackmail and influence operations. Arguably beginning with the PROMIS software scandal, which intimately involved the Maxwells, the utility of bugged software to intelligence agencies quickly became obvious. […] While Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, throughout the 1990s and beyond, blackmailed powerful people using trafficked women and girls, the digital revolution offered them, and their benefactors, a new opportunity to fulfill the same operational goals, but with much less risk. For example, if a Congressman’s phone or computer logs attempts to access pornography websites, one needs only obtain the electronic proof of those searches or website visits to blackmail that Congressman. There is no longer a need to spend significant sums of money on maintaining remote locations with pinhole cameras or on maintaining a harem of trafficked women and girls. Instead one only needs to gain access to the data on the person they are targeting in order to find their darkest and most damaging secrets.” And now the transition is complete. With the murder of Epstein and the jailing of Maxwell, that era of blackmail ends and the new one begins.
Epstein and the Maxwell Family have ties, in varying degrees, to every single president since Reagan (excluding, it seems, Obama). It is very clear that Epstein and Maxwell provided women and possibly underage girls for former President Clinton, and current President Trump to rape. E&M have ties to the richest men on earth (Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg). They have ties to Mossad and the CIA, to Harvard, to the Big Tech mega-corps. And you’re surprised the US government is trying to hide the truth? This is the worst government cover-up in the history of the country. Epstein and Maxwell were an integral part of the US-Israel Deep State. There’s a reason Biden didn’t do a damn thing to reveal the truth, even when it would have likely impacted the election in Democrats’ favor: it would embarrass too many important people. It would disrupt the apple cart. Too many high-profile CEO’s, Presidents, spies, Prime Ministers, & Royal Princes would have their dirty laundry revealed. That’s why no one’s gonna get prosecuted except Maxwell, and she might get a pardon by the guy who raped at least 1 child with her former partner in crime, Jeffrey Epstein.
It’s all just sick.
Anyone who claims that Epstein and Maxwell weren’t tied to both US and Israeli Intelligence is either ignorant of undeniable facts, or benefits from ignoring objective reality.
I have so many more damn highlighted passages I want to pull quotes from, but I know if I try to add any more, this review will explode in length.
READ THIS BOOK!!!!
The book, as a whole, is very dense. It’s incredibly well-sourced. But sometimes it’s hard to follow with regard to the money and companies and ties and backroom deals. Some of that I didn’t really follow, even though it’s arguably just as revelatory and criminal as the more salacious stuff. It is insanely thorough and it serves as a valuable thru-line for the US and Israeli Deep State Machinations. A MUST READ for anyone interested in the Epstein coverup conspiracy, even after all that’s happened since the book’s release. I hope there are revised versions in the years to come as HOPEFULLY more is revealed.
One of my favorite parts was something I didn’t know much about: the full story of Vince Foster, one of the people on the Clinton Body Count. Taking the book at face value, the conspiracy to murder and cover up by Hillary Clinton and/or Israel seems quite obvious and logical, in a Machiavellian sense. I hope to learn more about that.
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Here’s a recap: The “Deep State” is a consortium of unaccountable corporate oligarchs, banking institutions, intelligence agencies, military operatives, and organized crime elements operating without the consent of the governed to maintain US imperial hegemony, defeat the US’s geopolitical enemies (foreign and domestic), maintain capitalism, and corrupt profiteering by any means necessary. It goes by many names: “The Enterprise”, “The Power Elite”, “The Octopus”, among others. Though this book never actually mentions the term “Deep State”, that is ultimately what it’s about, and is easily one of the best books about its machinations.
Now I understand the Deep State even better since reading Vol 1 a few years ago.
As mentioned in the “Fort Bragg Cartel” book & review, in the wake of the CIA’s globe-spanning decades-long crime sprees revealed in the 1975 Church Committee, the Reagan admin shifted the majority of clandestine operations away from the civilian CIA and under the US military via “special operations,” “JSOC,” “Delta Force,” “G Squadron,” etc..
At the same time, the CIA and NSA began creating the Panopticon national & global surveillance regime. This got kickstarted with the Reagan admin & Israeli Intelligence, including Israeli Superspy Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine Maxwell), stealing the PROMIS software, inserting a backdoor, and selling it to other countries to facilitate Israeli spying. This was tied to the “Octopus Murders”, which investigative journalist Danny Casolaro was researching before he was murdered by those he was investigating. Don’t watch that dogshit 2024 Netflix pho-documentary “American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders.” That piece of trash was some sort of controlled opposition or astroturf propaganda, as it somehow, inexplicably, never mentioned Robert Maxwell or Israel. This is despite the fact that the connections were known as far back as 2003. That series is a disservice to the truth.
The 1980’s started the ~40-year transition of Deep State control over the masses, slowly shifting from the direct, active creation of sexual blackmail toward digital backdoors & surveillance capitalism as a means for control and blackmail of anyone that threatens the powers that be. Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell & family rode this wave nearly the whole way through. He was the go-to CIA-backed & Mossad-backed intelligence asset used to create and leverage sexual blackmail against enemies of Deep State Machinations & Israel starting in the 1990’s. Epstein and Maxwell were involved with Clinton’s illegal campaign financing during the 1996 presidential campaign. Epstein was helping George W. Bush pressure US Senators to invade Iraq in 2002-2003 via sexual blackmail. He worked to traffic and exploit women for decades, be that through good old-fashioned child rape, grooming young girls to help lure in more victims, or trafficking young women to become the arm candy, or even wives of, the power elite, likely including First Lady Melania Trump. Epstein and Maxwell were working with CIA and tech CEO’s to create surveillance software in the same vane as Ghislaine’s father in the 1980’s with PROMIS. PROMIS evolved into Maxwell-backed software Chiliad, which then merged with the post-9/11 “Total Information Awareness” (TIA) Program to eventually become Palantir. And, of course, Trump is now leveraging Palantir to orchestrate the US’s fascist takeover.
Only direct quote in this review: “Epstein’s decision to court and gather “dirt” on Big Tech scions, while also rebranding as a tech investor and entrepreneur, was carefully calculated. Indeed, he and the Maxwells were intimately aware of how the digital revolution was drastically reshaping the face of blackmail and influence operations. Arguably beginning with the PROMIS software scandal, which intimately involved the Maxwells, the utility of bugged software to intelligence agencies quickly became obvious. […] While Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, throughout the 1990s and beyond, blackmailed powerful people using trafficked women and girls, the digital revolution offered them, and their benefactors, a new opportunity to fulfill the same operational goals, but with much less risk. For example, if a Congressman’s phone or computer logs attempts to access pornography websites, one needs only obtain the electronic proof of those searches or website visits to blackmail that Congressman. There is no longer a need to spend significant sums of money on maintaining remote locations with pinhole cameras or on maintaining a harem of trafficked women and girls. Instead one only needs to gain access to the data on the person they are targeting in order to find their darkest and most damaging secrets.” And now the transition is complete. With the murder of Epstein and the jailing of Maxwell, that era of blackmail ends and the new one begins.
Epstein and the Maxwell Family have ties, in varying degrees, to every single president since Reagan (excluding, it seems, Obama). It is very clear that Epstein and Maxwell provided women and possibly underage girls for former President Clinton, and current President Trump to rape. E&M have ties to the richest men on earth (Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg). They have ties to Mossad and the CIA, to Harvard, to the Big Tech mega-corps. And you’re surprised the US government is trying to hide the truth? This is the worst government cover-up in the history of the country. Epstein and Maxwell were an integral part of the US-Israel Deep State. There’s a reason Biden didn’t do a damn thing to reveal the truth, even when it would have likely impacted the election in Democrats’ favor: it would embarrass too many important people. It would disrupt the apple cart. Too many high-profile CEO’s, Presidents, spies, Prime Ministers, & Royal Princes would have their dirty laundry revealed. That’s why no one’s gonna get prosecuted except Maxwell, and she might get a pardon by the guy who raped at least 1 child with her former partner in crime, Jeffrey Epstein.
It’s all just sick.
Anyone who claims that Epstein and Maxwell weren’t tied to both US and Israeli Intelligence is either ignorant of undeniable facts, or benefits from ignoring objective reality.
I have so many more damn highlighted passages I want to pull quotes from, but I know if I try to add any more, this review will explode in length.
READ THIS BOOK!!!!
June 13, 2025
In both volumes it's interesting to note how a (supposed) minority of people which has been wreaking havoc for the last 3 thousand years, is involved in every kind of crime including blackmail, murder, theft, trafficking, etc.
January 28, 2025
I seem to have breezed through Vol.2 quicker than Vol.1. I attribute this to it being recent history, my good memory, & my good retentive reading skills, having read a lot of the same information in previous chapters & earlier when Wendy was at Mint Press & she had her own page and watched TLAV Christian interview her . Numerous times, I’d be reading & ask myself, haven’t I read this already ?
Reasons I was slow to finish Vol.1 was because it was news to me, plus It takes awhile to get used to Wendy’s long winded writing style. I remember I’d always try to read her MPM articles before watching her TLAV interviews.
I put the book down awhile to read books and articles she referenced in the end notes.
I’ve added a few other books to my reading list she referenced in her end notes & also read other books about the same topics she mentioned & didn’t reference,
ie; “The Murder of Vince Foster: America's Would-Be Dreyfus Affair” by David Martin that compares the case of Vince Foster's death to the conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in France. Martin argues that the US establishment and press have been more unjust in the Foster case than French institutions were in the Dreyfus case
I read this a couple years ago . It looks at the Foster incident front m a different perspective than what Wendy described
Reasons I was slow to finish Vol.1 was because it was news to me, plus It takes awhile to get used to Wendy’s long winded writing style. I remember I’d always try to read her MPM articles before watching her TLAV interviews.
I put the book down awhile to read books and articles she referenced in the end notes.
I’ve added a few other books to my reading list she referenced in her end notes & also read other books about the same topics she mentioned & didn’t reference,
ie; “The Murder of Vince Foster: America's Would-Be Dreyfus Affair” by David Martin that compares the case of Vince Foster's death to the conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in France. Martin argues that the US establishment and press have been more unjust in the Foster case than French institutions were in the Dreyfus case
I read this a couple years ago . It looks at the Foster incident front m a different perspective than what Wendy described
April 12, 2025
Just completed Vol.2 of this expose, and just like I did with Vol.1, I had to skim through the last 100 pages as I feel like Ms. Webb went on a tangent and strayed away from what the purpose of the book was supposed to be. As someone with ADHD, I know how easy it is to switch subjects and run with the info presented, but it makes it harder for the reader to keep interest.
Very minimal info on the subject matter, blackmail, and instead we learned about Epstein business dealing as associates that he helped finance.
Maybe I went the wrong route with this series looking for the secrets of Epstein, however kudos and a big four stars goes out to Ms. Webb for the sheer amount of research and sourcing she did to write these books. Very very impressive. That alone makes me happy to have supported her as she sought the truth.
Anyways, Sic Semper Tyrannis and let freedom ring in our great country. Prayers to all the victims of abuse and sex trafficking, may we all continue to do the Lords work bringing it to the light.
Very minimal info on the subject matter, blackmail, and instead we learned about Epstein business dealing as associates that he helped finance.
Maybe I went the wrong route with this series looking for the secrets of Epstein, however kudos and a big four stars goes out to Ms. Webb for the sheer amount of research and sourcing she did to write these books. Very very impressive. That alone makes me happy to have supported her as she sought the truth.
Anyways, Sic Semper Tyrannis and let freedom ring in our great country. Prayers to all the victims of abuse and sex trafficking, may we all continue to do the Lords work bringing it to the light.
May 20, 2023
Well researched, well documented, compelling writing that lifts the curtain off the political institutions in this country to reveal a complex web of blackmail schemes going back decades. The last part of this decades long story focuses on Jeffery Epstein and sex trafficking young girls to entrap wealthy men and well connected politicians. This book is fascinating and creepy, the spyware developed by the Israelis in the 80s and sold to US intelligence all the connections to various individuals like Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates. Whitney Webb has done a brilliant job of researching and reporting. This story and this rare peek behind the facade of politics we see in the news makes me really miss good journalism.
August 26, 2025
Audiobook.
I think the only people that could read or listen to this book and recall all the information are people that are in the social circles of these elite or study it extensively. I tried listening to Volume 1 and the struggle was real. There were parts in Volume 2 that I could follow. In general I don't care who you are and what political affiliation you may have... if you are doing shady and illegal things you should be prosecuted. I am absolutely disgusted by Ghislaine Maxwell. I am torn about the other women that helped traffic other women. Are they victims or abusers or both... I say both can be true. Just another documentary that makes me disgusted with the leaders of our country.
I think the only people that could read or listen to this book and recall all the information are people that are in the social circles of these elite or study it extensively. I tried listening to Volume 1 and the struggle was real. There were parts in Volume 2 that I could follow. In general I don't care who you are and what political affiliation you may have... if you are doing shady and illegal things you should be prosecuted. I am absolutely disgusted by Ghislaine Maxwell. I am torn about the other women that helped traffic other women. Are they victims or abusers or both... I say both can be true. Just another documentary that makes me disgusted with the leaders of our country.
March 31, 2024
Whitney Webb's "One Nation Under Blackmail Vol. 2" presents a wealth of well-documented information, offering valuable insights into various interconnected issues. However, it's important to approach the material critically, as the author's writing style may sometimes suggest conspiracy conclusions by implying causation from correlation. While the book provides useful insights, readers should be cautious not to automatically accept every correlation as evidence of causation. Overall, Webb's work offers a thought-provoking examination of complex topics but should be read with a critical mindset.
August 13, 2023
Webb unflinchingly and steadfastly presents her case about the relationship between organised crime and intelligence in the US. Each detail is carefully teased out and backed up by impeccable documentation worthy of a barrister. It is not easy reading and Webb does not intend it to be. If you wish to stop the march towards one world globalisation, the domination of the many by the few, read this book - after you have read volume one. It is quite brilliant.
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