India, June 6 -- Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, daughter-in-law of US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a former CIA officer, has revealed why she stepped away from her role in the Trump administration, pointing to what she described as alarming misconduct and poor oversight within the intelligence community.

Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Fox Kennedy said she became increasingly uncomfortable with the handling of taxpayer-funded resources, particularly after allegations surrounding the movement of gold bullion tied to a major federal investigation surfaced.

"I couldn't keep signing the checks. I would have become complicit," she told the publication, adding that the intelligence community's "unsupervised movement of money and go...