David Rush made several requests to the US government to receive the bars for “work-related expenses” over the past year, according to court documents. He has been charged with criminal theft of public money in a complaint filed last week.
According to the New York Times, Rush held a senior position in the CIA until recently.
To be fair, the CIA is the one organization in the US government that can hire literally anyone. They have to pay “bad guys” in sketchy ways all the time in order to gain intelligence, cause trouble for enemies, and generally just move around the world (so they can be anywhere).
They are also experts of compartmentalization: They’re famous for hiring people that are literally insane but are still capable of performing important work. They just keep said people isolated and only given what they need to do their job.
Everyone knows the term, “handler” but what they probably don’t realize is that a lot of handlers are just people working in CIA offices, making sure dangerous/crazy people stay on task (or just come to work and go home on time!).