What agents say they foundFederal agents arrested former senior CIA officer David Rush after searching his Fairfax County, Virginia home and allegedly finding about 300 gold bars worth more than $40 million, along with roughly $2 million in cash and 35 luxury watches, many of them Rolexes. Investigators say the gold and cash were tied to a theft case involving public money, and the haul was so large it makes most office scandals look like someone misplaced a stapler, not a small fortune.The alleged paper trailAccording to the FBI affidavit and NBC News, Rush allegedly used his agency role to request large amounts of gold and foreign currency by claiming the assets were needed for work expenses. Prosecutors say he instead moved the money to his home and also kept some funds in storage near his office. He is also accused of falsifying time sheets, padding his hours, and lying about his background for nearly two decades, including claims about degrees, military training, and Navy service that were not true.https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2059756739906670836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw What this says about vettingThe CIA said its internal review found possible legal violations and led Director John Ratcliffe to refer the matter to the FBI. That is the official…

Thomas says the Court should have taken the caseJustice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should have heard Florida’s dispute with California and Washington instead of turning it away. Joined by Justice Samuel Alito, Thomas argued that when one state sues another, the high court is not just another stop on the legal train line. It is supposed to be the only stop. He wrote that if the Court will not hear such a fight, then the injured state has no other place to go. That is a tidy little problem for a system that likes to call itself the final word.Florida says state licenses broke federal rulesFlorida says California and Washington gave commercial driver’s licenses to people who did not meet federal standards. Those standards call for a driver to pass a test, understand English well enough to read road signs, and show proper immigration status in some cases. Florida argued that this was not a paperwork squabble. It was a public safety issue. Thomas agreed that federal licensing rules matter because an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer is not the place for guesswork, wishful thinking, or bureaucratic performance art.The fatal crash put the issue in focusThomas pointed to a deadly Florida…