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The CIA Just Got ROBBED For $40 Million. The Trail Leads Straight To Trump's Pentagon.

from The Michael Fanone Show · host Michael Fanone

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.comThey kicked in the door of a house in Ashburn, Virginia and found a literal Bond-villain stash: 303 gold bars, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches — most of them Rolex. The guy sitting on it? A senior CIA officer, David Rush. And the gold wasn’t “his.” It was U.S. government property.Here’s the part that should stop you cold: this wasn’t some petty theft. Rush allegedly requisitioned gold and foreign currency through internal CIA paperwork over a period of months — signatures, approvals, the whole “official” process — then moved it into a storage space he controlled and out into his home. The CIA didn’t flag it until a later check found the storage area empty. That’s not just one crooked employee. That’s an institutional failure so big it should trigger hearings on its own.And then there’s the connection nobody wants to linger on: reporting indicates Rush had prior contact/history with Stephen Feinberg — the billionaire private equity guy Trump put in as Deputy Secretary of Defense — through Feinberg’s prior role advising on intelligence and his interest in the very CIA directorate Rush worked in. I’m not saying Feinberg helped him steal forty million dollars. I’m saying when a CIA officer can walk out with this kind of value and the oversight systems don’t scream until months later, every relationship and every pipeline around that unit deserves sunlight.Because the real question isn’t just “how did he do it?” The real question is what else could walk out the door when the guardrails don’t work — money, tech, sources, names, methods. If this is the kind of “accountability” we have inside the most secretive agency on earth, imagine how much is breaking in the agencies that don’t live behind a classified wall.🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for lifeYou’ll get the link in your welcome email.GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

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