This is not new news. But if/when Alan Dershowitz ever makes it to appearing before the House Oversight Committee, I want you to know what the news will never print. It is freely available in various depositions, but the media only ever takes a tiny snippet of what's there, usually the most prurient or titillating mosel, and leaves the rest, not least because they don't want to get sued by someone like Dershowitz.

It is my full expectation that whatever happens in that committee room, if it ever does, will be underreported at best, and so I offer you an original source of what you should know about this guy, straight from one of the victims.

As many of you already know, in 2014 Virgina Giuffre joined the Palm Beach survivors in their earlier legal action against the government because Jeffrey Epstein had been given a sweetheart deal in 2007 that appeared to violate federal law -- the Crime Victims Rights Act, or CVRA -- and in the course of joining that CVRA suit she gave her personal evidence of having been trafficked. She had done so before 2014, but had largely avoided naming names. Yet this time, in 2014, Virginia Giuffre named some names. Big ones.

When she did so, some of those involved decided that their best response would be to slander and defame her. When they did, Giuffre sued back, and was then countersued and slandered more, and in the end even the lawyers were suing the other lawyers, in endless cases, some of which are still being litigated today, over ten years later.

At the very core of this overwhelming blizzard of legal activity is Alan Dershowitz.

The post link, above, is to one of the full copies of her depositions, this particular one from 2016 given in the case of Bradley J. Edwards and Paul G. Cassell v Alan M. Dershowitz, one of the secondary lawsuits that arose from the original CVRA suit against the government: Brad Edwards was Virginia Giuffre's attorney when she joined the CVRA suit on behalf of the Palm Beach survivors, and Paul Cassell is a professor of law specializing in victims' rights who assisted Edwards in bringing the suit.

Edwards and Cassell brought the original CVRA suit against the government, and together they later sued Dershowitz for defamation.

Virginia Giuffre was brought into the defamation suit and forced to undergo deposition again with Alan Dershowitz sitting in the same room, watching and listening to her reply as she was grilled about how Dershowitz had used her body at Epstein's direction and command, in Epstein's own bedroom, and about whatever other sexual assaults and experiences his legal team thought would humiliate her. (This is the reason for the trigger warning: the deposition pulls no punches.)

You do not have to be a lawyer to read these things: skip the citations, skim over the legal business, attend the text. But what you will be is shocked. Not just at what Virginia Giuffre had to say about Alan Dershowitz, which never changed throughout all these depositions and who was in the room with her throughout this deposition, (see page 3, "Also Present") but at how poorly she was treated throughout, how even her own personal safety was repeatedly ignored as the opposition lawyers repeatedly tried to bully her into giving names she had already decided were not safe for her to name, and how they repeated question after question that, in my opinion, were crafted more for their potential to humiliate and embarrass as opposed to their use in uncovering relevant truth.

The psychological pressure they put on her was immense. She never buckled.

But this was just one time out of many where she had to undergo the same thing: someone has weaponized the law to sue someone else, and as retaliation a survivor, or many survivors, are brought in once again to relive their hell while one or more of those actually responsible -- or even a direct participant, as in this case -- sits in the room to watch it happen.

ALL the victim depositions I have read have been like this, and worse. That is not to say all of them are this bad, but if any are lighter or more gentle somehow, I have yet to come across them.

And they seem to be most especially prevalent wherever Dershowitz is involved in any way.

I don't think we normies really have any idea what it means for a victim to come forward and name even a single name, and how that can disrupt entire lives for years, even decades to come, and how after so much of this turmoil, not just within the legal system but outside of it from the perpetrators, and years of fighting for the truth to come out, some of them are no longer with us. This deposition is just a fraction of what they had to bear not just once but many, many times.

As you read, take note of who is asking what and why -- I kept one copy open to the introduction (Page 2) while I read a second copy so I could keep the participants straight -- and know that if Dershowitz ever makes it in front of the House committee, it will be only a fraction of what he and his attorneys put each of the victims who spoke up through, usually multiple times.

Also note some of the bizarre redactions. For example, a special master was appointed to ensure that legal confidentialities remained legal even as lawyers were suing other lawyers: when he appears, they have redacted the word Master from his title, so you'll see a lot of Special _______ in the text. They have also bizarrely redacted the names "Bradley" and "Edwards" from this publicly filed suit.