Emails hacked from the inbox of former Israeli PM Ehud Barak reveal discussions with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including exchanges about a trip to the pedophile's private island. The emails were acquired last year by Handala, a hacking group with suspected ties to Iranian intelligence agencies. Link: Ehud Barak's 100,000 Emails. Many of the emails detail Epstein's partnership with Barak in 2015, when the pair began investing in a security startup known as Reporty Homeland Security. Epstein used Barak "to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe." Those influential figures included Palantir founder Peter Thiel, along with the former director of Israeli signals intelligence and two individuals described as being in Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle.

In January 2014, Ehud Barak mentioned efforts to keep his security detail from accompanying him to Little Saint James, Jeffrey Epstein's private island in the Caribbean. "I'm still trying to arrange that the security guys will NOT come with us to the island," Barak wrote. "Does this works for you?" Suspicions have been swirling that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were not only trafficking in underage girls, but blackmailing their clients for money, and possibly providing derogatory information to the Mossad. British intelligence long suspected Ghislaine's father Robert Maxwell as a spy for both the USSR and Israel. Recently, a top cyber-security expert in Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet was arrested in Las Vegas for soliciting sex with a minor. The suspect was inexplicably released and he returned to Israel with his passport. Link: drudge.com