There’s a story that when Saladin besieged the Order of the Assassins, they sent an envoy to negotiate. The envoy requested to talk alone, but Saladin refused to meet without his most trusted bodyguard, a man whom he had known since he was a boy. The envoy accepted, and when the three of them were alone, made a small motion towards the bodyguard with his fingers — upon which the bodyguard drew his dagger and held it to Saladin’s throat. Upon another flick of the envoy’s wrist, he withdrew his dagger and then plunged it into his own chest and fell down dead. Saladin made peace with the Assassins. The Epstein files are never going to be released.