RFK Jr’s daughter-in-law reveals bombshell reason she quit CIA role: ‘I would’ve become complicit’

WASHINGTON, DC: Amaryllis Fox Kennedy has revealed a very different reason for leaving the Trump administration than the one she initially gave when she stepped down from her intelligence roles last month.

The daughter-in-law of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published this week that she resigned over concerns about what she described as the intelligence community's unsupervised movement of taxpayer money and gold.

The disclosure comes weeks after she publicly said she was leaving her positions to help keep her family's finances on track. Fox Kennedy had been serving as deputy director of national intelligence and was also a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board before her departure.

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy says she could no longer approve intelligence spending

Speaking candidly about her decision to leave, Fox Kennedy said she became increasingly uncomfortable with what she witnessed while serving inside the administration.

"I couldn't keep signing the checks. I would have become complicit," the 45-year-old told the Journal.

According to Fox Kennedy, her concerns centered on what she described as a lack of meaningful oversight regarding the movement of money and gold within parts of the intelligence community.

"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 said.

The former CIA officer stressed that not everything she encountered during her time in government was problematic. She acknowledged that much of the intelligence work being carried out was worthy of public support.

She described some operations as "brilliant, courageous, and everything an American would be proud to fund."

At the same time, she claimed other activities raised serious concerns for her.

Other programs, she said, "are broken and corrupt and result in domestic political activities that no American would condone."

Fox Kennedy declined to provide specific details, citing national security considerations.

David Rush case reinforced Amaryllis Fox Kennedy's concerns

Fox Kennedy's comments came only days after the arrest of senior CIA official David Rush.

Rush was allegedly found in possession of more than 300 gold bars valued at over $40 million at his Ashburn, Virginia, home when he was arrested by the FBI.

While she did not directly tie her resignation to the case, Fox Kennedy suggested the allegations highlighted deeper cultural problems inside the intelligence community.

She also claimed that certain agencies appeared unwilling to cooperate fully with elected officials and oversight efforts, a concern she said ultimately contributed to her decision to step away from government service.

Her allegations were strongly disputed by the CIA.

In a statement provided to the Journal, a CIA spokeswoman rejected the suggestion that agency resources were operating without oversight.

"The CIA keeps its oversight committees fully and currently informed regarding agency resources and expenditures," the spokeswoman said.

The agency also pointed to an investigation conducted under CIA Director John Ratcliffe, saying it exposed misconduct and fraud spanning multiple government agencies and ultimately contributed to an FBI arrest.

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy praises intelligence leaders and rejects Iran war speculation

Following the CIA's response, Fox Kennedy made clear that her criticism was not aimed at current intelligence leadership.

Instead, she singled out Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and acting successor Bill Pulte for praise.

She said the three officials "are doing the Lord's work" and argued that their efforts could help curb what she sees as the misuse of federal agencies.

The former official addressed speculation that she resigned because she disagreed with President Donald Trump's decision to launch military action against Iran.

She firmly rejected that suggestion.

Fox Kennedy said she supported Operation Epic Fury, describing it as a necessary move designed to prevent a much larger conflict in the future.

According to her, Trump had effectively stopped a broader war before it could escalate.

The president 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.

She also warned about the "weaponization" of government institutions and predicted that the trio's most important achievement would be helping bring that era to an end.

"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."