Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, the daughter-in-law of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has revealed she resigned from her roles in the Trump administration due to concerns about the CIA's unsupervised movement of gold bullion. The former deputy director of national intelligence and member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board initially cited financial reasons for her departure last month.
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Fox Kennedy said she could no longer sign off on what she described as a lack of oversight. 'Until there's functional oversight of the intelligence community's ample and unsupervised movement of money and gold, we are stuck living in something less than the constitutional republic our founders designed,' she stated.
Her comments came days after the arrest of senior CIA official David Rush, who was found with over 300 gold bars worth more than $40 million at his home in Ashburn, Virginia. Fox Kennedy described the case as emblematic of broader cultural problems within the intelligence community.
While praising some intelligence work as 'brilliant, courageous, and everything an American would be proud to fund,' she alleged that other activities 'are broken and corrupt and result in domestic political activities that no American would condone.' She declined to specify on national security grounds.
A CIA spokeswoman disputed her claims, stating that the agency keeps its oversight committees fully informed about resources and expenditures. She also highlighted an investigation under CIA Director John Ratcliffe that uncovered 'decades-long fraud and misconduct' leading to Rush's arrest.
Fox Kennedy denied that her resignation was linked to President Trump's decision to attack Iran, instead focusing on what she called the 'political weaponization of our security services.' She warned that 'the swamp thrives on its ability to wield covert resources to affect political outcomes.'
