I think all of you posting here would be very interested to read The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant (2009). It's an extremely lucid piece of investigative journalism that tries to piece together a pedophile ring that operated in Nebraska and DC in the 1980s and seems to have extended all the way to the first Bush white house. Bryant spent nearly a decade researching the book. It is an excellent piece of work based on hard-fought evidence and analysis, not speculation. It's not conspiracy theory, much more Studs Terkel than Alex Jones or David Icke.

I will admit I am extremely skeptical that pizzagate has any veracity but I have wondered, given how extremely convincing and well-researched Bryant's book is, whether or not pizzagate might not have started with an intel agency or other elite/establishment government figure, IOW be the equivalent of a psy-op intended to muddy the waters and make actual disclosure of elite pedo networks practically impossible. Check it out if you have time.

PS. there has been a war on the scandal's Wikipedia page for years. After you read Bryant's book, go to the talk tab for the scandal page and you can see a small coterie of gatekeepers who have worked tirelessly to ensure the page simply dismisses the whole thing as a "hoax."