But you’d have to be one really stupid correctional officer to get an order to disable the cameras around Epstein’s cell the night he was murdered, and not know who killed him after he dies. Even if you were that dumb, it seems like something you would mention unless you were threatened, in which case you obviously are now a possible defecting member of the plot.
If I were a prison guard who had just seen a well-connected group of conspirators murder someone who had become inconvenient to them and easily get away with it, it seems to me that one of the stupidest things I could possibly do would be to tell anyone about it. Why would they need to explicitly threaten me? We both understand there’s no one I could “defect” to who could stop them or protect me.
The point I was making in the post is that they would still effectively be members of the conspiracy, and that the conspiracy is thus larger than just one or two people. A more complicated question is “would this particular party defect if they were?”, which I don’t really think is possible to answer without any more specific details in particular cases.
If I were a prison guard who had just seen a well-connected group of conspirators murder someone who had become inconvenient to them and easily get away with it, it seems to me that one of the stupidest things I could possibly do would be to tell anyone about it. Why would they need to explicitly threaten me? We both understand there’s no one I could “defect” to who could stop them or protect me.
The point I was making in the post is that they would still effectively be members of the conspiracy, and that the conspiracy is thus larger than just one or two people. A more complicated question is “would this particular party defect if they were?”, which I don’t really think is possible to answer without any more specific details in particular cases.