There's a surprising number of CIA and secret agent experts in this comments section.
I've seen From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, and Thunderball I'll have you know.
That's MI-6
FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home
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#202I can't read the full article, but the subtitle says :
> The only charge lodged against David Rush is that he inflated his academic credentials and obtained military leave pay worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Is this guys just very good at saving gold for CIA/personal reasons and it's still his or is this gold in related to some crime ?
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Gold is pretty soft. You would have to cut it to 10 carat, so there’s be even more to go around!
You could encase them in plastic to prevent damage and mask them for some run off the mill equipment. Nobody would suspect anything without prior knowledge.
> Nobody would suspect anything without prior knowledge.
The weights being nearly twice as heavy for their expected size would be a bit of a giveaway to anyone who has ever been in a gym.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
$40m+ in an expense account based in gold bars is absolutely crazy. CIA agents must have access to untold resources if this is seen as a somewhat regular 4 month spend. Seems it is, given that they seemingly weren't concerned about the $40+ million being taken out, but where it was being held.
You're thinking in pre-covid peasant dollars. $40m isn't that much anymore, and frankly never was to these people.
Nobody’s talking about how much money it is to them,
to some degree, that’s our employees and often our money - it’s our concept of how much money is okay to fuck around with that matters.
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#205A couple of weeks ago there was a story that the CIA raided the office of the director of the NSA and seized information regarding the CIA. Trump was in China at the time. About a week later the NSA director resigns. I waited for it to turn into a major story and get some kind of explanation, but silence. It seems like an extraordinary story and I don't understand why there isn't a hullabaloo. Did I hallucinate it? W…
There might be a mix up on the details. The FBI raided the home of John Bolton who was a former National Security Advisor for the first Trump administration. (not directly part of the NSA and definitely not the director of the NSA). Bolton has become a vocal critic of Trump since he was fired in Sept 2019. Trump's DOJ has a track record of prosecuting Trump's vocal critics. eg. Former FBI director James Comey and New…
> Trump's DOJ has a track record of prosecuting Trump's vocal critics.
And many Americans claim they have freedom of speech!
(Of course the little guys speech is "free", they aren't important. But the moment the little guy critical of Trump is in a position of power or influence, watch how quickly he is silenced.)
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
flock or any number of cameras that contribute to flock would see you.
They would see you driving out into the sticks to go camping for a few days. That's entirely normal isn't it? We haven't (yet) made it to the level of flock cameras on gravel logging roads.
Let's not give them any ideas, please.
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#208There's this one guy who's apparently also insider and he and his family earns a lot of money because of market manipulation with his decisions. Maybe FBI should get into him as well?
Nah, he’ll just get some deal where the FBI can’t investigate him and his family for anything ever. Yay for democracy and rule of law.
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> What's the appeal of collecting high priced watches? You can carry them on your person through airports and other places reasonably unmolested in a way carrying a bunch of cash isn't so easy. > Is it kind of like art collections, where its a decent store of value Art doesn't store value: It trades whatever number the parties exchanging it want it to have, so those parties can manipulate their total annual revenues,…
> It trades whatever number the parties exchanging it want it to have I'd argue that that's the very definition of (economic) value. Someone puts a cost on a good/service, and someone who values and can satisfy the cost gets said good/service.
Sure it is, but that's not a way to store value (what economists specifically call store of value if you want to read more about it), which is a little different:
If you buy a €100k rolex, you probably can't be sure you can sell it for more than €100k anywhere at anytime in the future.
You probably can't even find a bank that would take that €100k rolex you just bought as collateral for €500k on a 30y mortgage.
That's why a €1m watch collection is never going to be worth €1m unless we're talking raw materials.
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#210Archive.ph/archive.today failing me to bypass paywall, is everyone commenting on the title? Or you all have NYT subscriptions? Or you know of some other bypass?
I get 24 hour access through my local library. Here, have a gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-ci...
oh man i just discovered that i have access to a lot of publications through my local library! thanks for this!