Amaryllis Fox Kennedy Resigns Over CIA's Use of Taxpayer Funds, Gold Bullion

Former Trump intelligence official Amaryllis Fox Kennedy has revealed why she stepped down from her multiple roles in the administration last month.

RFK Jr’s daughter-in-law had claimed she was stepping down as deputy director of national intelligence and leaving the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board “to keep her family financially on track”.

But speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Fox Kennedy said she actually quit over concerns about the CIA’s use of taxpayer funds, particularly the unsupervised movement of gold bullion.

“I couldn’t keep signing the checks. I would have become complicit,” the 45 year-old told the WSJ.

“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.”

Fox Kennedy, a former CIA agent herself, was speaking days after arrest of senior CIA official David Rush.

Rush was found to have more than 300 gold bars, worth over $40 million, stashed at his home in Ashburn, Virginia, when he was picked up by the FBI, a situation the former official said was emblematic of broader cultural problems within the community.

She said that some of the intelligence work she had observed since joining the Trump administration was “brilliant, courageous, and everything an American would be proud to fund.”

Other activities, however, “are broken and corrupt and result in domestic political activities that no American would condone,” Fox Kennedy added, declining to specify on national security grounds.

She said she ultimately decided to resign because she felt certain intelligence agencies were stonewalling elected leaders.

A CIA spokeswoman disputed her claims, telling the Journal in a statement: “The CIA keeps its oversight committees fully and currently informed regarding agency resources and expenditures.”

She also pointed out that an agency investigation under CIA Director John Ratcliffe “uncovered decades-long fraud and misconduct spanning across U.S. government agencies and departments, leading to an arrest by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” alluding to the Rush case.

Responding to the CIA’s rebuttal, Fox Kennedy subsequently told the Journal she believed Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and the latter’s acting successor Bill Pulte “are doing the Lord’s work.”

She warned against the “weaponization” of federal agencies and declared that the trio’s “greatest legacy will be working to bring it to an end.”

In the same interview, Fox Kennedy denied that the real reason she had left her positions within the administration was because she disapproved of President Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran, as Joe Kent did in March.

She said she believed the launch of Operation Epic Fury on February 28 was about “future-proofing” against the prospect of a more protracted conflict with Tehran in years to come.

Trump had crushed “the seed of a future full-blown war while it can still be done with minimal casualties and no boots on the ground,” she said.

“My concern isn’t about the president’s foreign policy,” Fox Kennedy concluded. “It’s about the political weaponization of our security services here in the United States.

“The swamp thrives on its ability to wield covert resources to affect political outcomes. Control of Washington is, after all, a trillion-dollar prize.”

The Independent has reached out to the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for comment.