David Rush Didn't Breach the CIA's Secrecy. He Exploited It.

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When a federal magistrate judge ordered David Rush jailed without bond pending trial, I wondered if the judge took that extreme step because Rush, a former CIA official found with $40 million in gold bars, had spied for a foreign country.

It turns out I was wrong. Rush apparently didn’t breach the CIA’s secrecy. He exploited it.

According to a report in The Washington Post, Rush created a phony Special Access Program—a classified black box so restricted that only those with a specific “need to know” can access it. He then “read in” two colleagues into the sham program and persuaded one of them to transfer millions of dollars into it via a fraudulent government contract. “He made up a contract,” one person familiar with the investigation told the Post.

People familiar with the investigation told the Po…