What Does the Evidence Show?

The Panel: McKinley and Dalton

Nic McKinley introduces his counter-trafficking intelligence background at DeliverFund. Ryan Dalton describes his path from trafficking attorney to State Department federal agent to founding Closed Horizon, a platform that crowdsources rewards to surface actionable intelligence in hard cases.

How Intelligence Operations Get Funded

A discussion of the mechanisms by which intelligence operations — both government and private — are resourced, and what accountability structures exist or fail to exist around that funding.

Applying an Evidence Framework to the Epstein Question

The conversation walks through what the evidence actually shows regarding Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking network, the institutional failures that allowed it to persist for decades, and the questions the data cannot yet answer.

Closed Horizon: Crowdsourcing Accountability

Ryan Dalton explains how Closed Horizon works — a platform that crowdsources financial rewards to surface hard answers and provide accountability incentives where traditional law enforcement structures have failed.

The Intelligence Methodology Applied to Hard Cases

Nic McKinley translates DeliverFund's intelligence methodology into an accessible framework: how trafficking networks are structured, how they recruit and retain victims, and how they evade detection over long periods.