Senate Intel Committee Blocks CIA Job for RFK Jr. Daughter-in-Law

Source: Daily Beast

Published Dec. 16 2024 9:32AM EST


Robert F. Kennedy Jr‘s elaborate scheme to get his daughter-in-law a top job at the CIA is coming apart at the seams, after the Senate Intelligence Committee reportedly blocked the move.

Axios reported last Tuesday that the Department of Health and Human Services secretary nominee has been back-channeling support to get his former campaign manager Amaryllis Fox Kennedy nominated to deputy director of the intelligence agency under John Ratcliffe. The move is reportedly part of an effort to uncover more details about the 1963 killing of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy.

But Fox Kennedy, who is married to RFK’s son Bobby Kennedy III, has now been ruled out of the running because of opposition on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Axios reports. But all is not lost as she could get her hands on another administration job—potentially in Tulsi Gabbard’s team. The former Hawaii congresswoman is President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination for director of national intelligence.

Axios added that Fox Kennedy could even wind up in a White House position. It’s thought that RFK Jr. wants Fox Kennedy at the CIA because it would give her the chance to dig into the agency’s private documents about the shooting, carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald.

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