CIA puts senior officials on leave over officer arrested with gold bars

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cia-put-senior-officials-leave-officer-arrested-gold-bars-rcna348517

WASHINGTON — The CIA has put several senior officials on administrative leave over their handling of a high-ranking officer who allegedly had $40 million in gold bars stashed at his home, according to three people familiar with the decisions.

David Rush, a senior CIA officer who worked on one of the most highly sensitive programs in the U.S. government, was arrested in Virginia on May 19 and is accused of lying about his work experience and education. Rush is scheduled to appear in court Friday.

The agency placed the senior officials on leave over how they managed Rush’s requests for money or initial internal flags that his requests may not have been a legitimate part of his work, the people familiar with the decisions said. They did not know the number of CIA officials affected or when they were put on leave.

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A CIA employee for about 17 years, Rush was most recently a liaison to the Defense Department for a sensitive nuclear submarine program, NBC News has reported. He was given that assignment at the request of the Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, with whom Rush had a close professional relationship over the years, according to four people familiar with their relationship. Feinberg founded the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management.
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More at the link. Sounds like the Swamp is Alive and Well.

[Traildogbob]

1. Who exactly

Is not robbing us in this regime?
Mueller, Mueller……😳😡????????

[bucolic_frolic]

2. That's exactly the question on everyone's lips

and increasingly so as we move toward election day.

The trillions for defense, architecture, gold bling, data centers and electricity, detention centers .... yet the people can't make ends meet without credit card debt.

This is now a feeling, an emotion, an outrage ... something they cannot hide from.

[Traildogbob]

3. DOGE raided agencies and

Fired many many thousands to balance the budget and curb spending. Yet no regime has ever burned through this much cash…….in less than a year and a half. So gut SS and Medicare, and other essential policies that help us that pay fucking taxes.
Any Dem candidate running that is not screaming justice, prison and consequence for this thievery, and restitution to repair and replace should not even consider running.

[Norrrm]

4. The thief's biggest mistake was in not giving Trump a cut.

[struggle4progress]

5. Gold-diggers ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Former CIA officer accused of stashing gold bars ordered to remain in jail pending trial

U.S. News
Former CIA officer accused of stashing gold bars ordered to remain in jail pending trial

David Rush will remain behind bars because ‘he is in a different position from most people,’ the judge said

CIA officer arrested with gold bars worked on Pentagon's nuclear program, sources say

June 5, 2026, 12:22 PM EDT
By Gary Grumbach, Nathan Gonzalez and Corky Siemaszko

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The former CIA officer found with $40 million in gold bars stashed at his Virginia home was ordered held behind bars Friday until he goes on trial for criminal theft of public money after a prosecutor branded him a “master manipulator.” ... David Rush, a senior CIA officer who worked on one of the most highly sensitive programs in the U.S. government, watched as prosecutors and his defense attorney sparred in a Virginia courtroom over whether he should remain in jail.

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A CIA employee for about 17 years, Rush was most recently a liaison to the Defense Department for a highly sensitive nuclear submarine program, NBC News has reported. ...Rush was given that assignment at the request of Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, with whom Rush had a close professional relationship over the years, according to four people familiar with the two men.

Feinberg, who has not been accused of wrongdoing, was a major donor to President Donald Trump’s campaigns and founded the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management. ... Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell has denied that Rush and Feinberg had “a close relationship of any kind.” ... In a previous statement to NBC News, Parnell said that Feinberg “never supported Mr. Rush’s career at any point in his life, nor did he endorse Mr. Rush for any career position.”

Rush applied to work with the government three times. ... In his first application, Rush falsely claimed he graduated from Clemson University in 2000. In his second application, he added that he had a graduate degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ... On his third try, in 2009, he succeeded, and he included those degrees and an aircraft test from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, according to court documents. In applications for promotions, he said he’d been a thesis adviser at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Rush also told employers he was a pilot for the Navy. ... None of it was true, according to the charges; he didn’t graduate from the schools, and investigators say the Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t have a certificate or a pilot’s license registered to Rush.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Thank for the followup, and .....

who works at Cerberus?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle

Post–vice presidency (1993–present)

In 1993, Quayle became a trustee of the Hudson Institute.[8] From 1993 to January 1999, he served on the board of Central Newspapers, Inc.,[8] and from 1995 until January 1999, he headed the Campaign America political action committee.[8]

Quayle authored a 1994 memoir, Standing Firm, which became a bestseller. Quayle's second book, The American Family: Discovering the Values That Make Us Strong, was co-authored with Diane Medved and published in 1996.[8] He later published his third book Worth Fighting For, in 1999.

Quayle moved to Arizona in 1996.[73] He considered but decided against running for governor of Indiana in 1996, and decided against running for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination, citing health problems related to phlebitis.[74]

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In 1999, Quayle joined Cerberus Capital Management, a multibillion-dollar private-equity firm, where he serves as chair of the company's Global Investments division.[75] As chair of the international advisory board of Cerberus Capital Management, he recruited former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who would have been installed as chair if Cerberus had acquired Air Canada.[76]