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A judge ordered the detention of an ex-CIA official found with gold bars worth about $40 million in his home last month. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick said in a detention hearing Friday that David Rush must remain in custody pending trial, determining that he poses a severe flight risk. Fitzpatrick said Rush has the means and motive to flee law enforcement and evade detection. David…

A former CIA official was arrested last week after FBI agents allegedly found $40 million worth of gold bars at his home while investigating whether he lied about his educational and military background, according to court records and sources familiar with the matter. David Rush is currently being held in jail while both his defense attorneys and federal prosecutors “gather and evaluate…

Law enforcement veterans are expressing deep concerns that the Trump Justice Department’s criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan is being systematically stacked with politically motivated personnel who are intent on a partisan indictment. Brennan is the subject of two criminal probes being led by the Miami-area U.S. Attorney’s Office. One is weighing allegations that he lied…

Joseph DiGenova, a conservative attorney who previously represented President Trump’s campaign when it challenged the results of the 2020 election, is being tapped by the U.S. Justice Department to lead an ongoing criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, a Justice Department official said on Saturday. DiGenova, who will oversee the probe from the Southern District of Florida,…

The lead career federal prosecutor in Miami who was overseeing a criminal investigation into whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress is no longer assigned to the case, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News on Friday. Maria Medetis Long, who is the head of the national security section for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of Florida, informed lawyers who have…

Former CIA director David Petraeus has traveled to Ukraine 10 times since Russia’s invasion in 2022. During his most recent trip last week, he told CBS News that Russia “no longer has the upper hand.” “Over the last two months, the Ukrainians have actually made greater incremental gains than have the Russians,” Petraeus, a retired U.S. Army general, said in an interview in Kyiv after visiting…

Several weeks prior, one morning, John Kiriakou received a phone call from his 16-year-old niece. “Uncle John, you’re becoming sensationally popular on TikTok,” he recollects her informing him. Kiriakou, a 61-year-old former CIA operative who was incarcerated in 2013 for revealing confidential data concerning the agency’s Middle East interrogation program, was unaware of her subject matter. He…

CBS News contributor and former CIA assistant director for counterterrorism Joseph Zacks slammed Joe Kent’s resignation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. “What troubles me even more in [Kent’s] resignation is that he in fact, in my opinion, put a segment of the United States citizenry in danger,” Zacks said. Source link