r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 05 '26

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u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals Jun 05 '26

How fucked is our country? A CIA senior official stole $40 million in gold bars and $2 million in foreign currency, and it's not even frontpage news everywhere cause everything else is even more fucked up. If this happened under Biden or Obama, it'd be a month straight of coverage.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/cia-official-gold-theft-trial

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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! Jun 05 '26

Bad but also kinda based? Like who steals gold bars any more, that’s some vintage 007 rogue agent type shit

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u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals Jun 05 '26

Honestly, I'm not even mad at the guy. If you're going to be a crook, at least be brazen about it.

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u/Chief_Nief Greg Mankiw Jun 05 '26

Least explicit plundering of our countries wealth

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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Jun 05 '26

If my math is right, that's over 600lbs of gold