From “Here’s The Deal”
“Possible play: Drop a story so outrageous — three hundred kilos of gold, two million in cash, thirty luxury watches — that everyone focuses on the cartoonish greed of one guy. The public gets distracted by the Rolexes and gold bars, while the real questions about seventeen years of vetting failures, who else he might have been connected to, and what he was actually doing for the agency never get properly examined. Not to mention the fact this this one act of theft by this one guy could be happening all over the agency. The shocking details become the whole story. That’s classic misdirection — bury the bigger questions under two and a half refrigerators of shiny metal.“