Every workplace has goldbrickers. It's a time-honored tradition to work hard to look like you're working hard whilst hardly working. Those willing to work, but only enough to keep the boss off their ass. Goldbrickers show up at meetings but leave before tasks are assigned. Those who work from home spend more hours shopping for the perfect mouse jiggler than doing actual work.
At the Central Intelligence Agency, however, it seems that staffers take the term more literally.
The United States has arrested former senior CIA official David Rush after FBI officers found $40 million in gold bars at his Virginia home. They also seized $2 million in cash and around 35 luxury watches.
I'm pretty sure they buried the lede here.
Gold bars and $77k in cash. Yeah, that's a whole lotta cabbage. But the fella who took it was not only able to snag a high-level position in the country's intelligence community (not an appointment, mind you, but a job) after lying about his education and military pedigree? How the hell does that happen? Did everyone at the CIA's Office of Security/Directorate of Support call in sick on the day this guy's paperwork was being processed? The explanation for this, if we get one, is gonna be pure gold.
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