General Discussion

A Pentagon official who worked with Feinberg told the Guardian: “In his mind the most qualified people are the people who have been working for him for 10 years. Their whole thing is shaking up the way government works.”

Feinberg briefly was the center of unwanted attention this month, when a CIA official faced federal charges for allegedly lying about his background. Federal agents wrote David Rush had stashed millions of dollars worth of gold in his house. Feinberg, officials said, supported Rush in a phone call to the agency before learning of the scandal. A Pentagon spokesperson said Rush and Feinberg didn’t have a “close personal relationship of any kind”.