Former intelligence official Amaryllis Fox Kennedy came clean to The Wall Street Journal in an exclusive published Wednesday about why she stepped down from her work in the Trump administration last month.

The daughter-in-law of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. initially said she quit because she felt it was time “to head back out into the private sector to keep my family financially on track.”

But she told the Journal on Wednesday that she left in part due to the intelligence community’s unchecked use of taxpayer funds and gold bullion.

“I couldn’t keep signing the checks. I would have become complicit,” Kennedy told the outlet.

“Until there’s functional oversight of the intelligence community’s ample and unsupervised movement of money and gold,” she added, “we are stuck living in something less than the constitutional republic our founders designed.”

Kennedy, a former CIA officer, held multiple jobs in the Trump administration. She served as a deputy director of national intelligence, sat on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and oversaw the spending of the CIA and 17 other agencies at the Office of Management and Budget.

Kennedy told the Journal that some of the intelligence activity she observed was “brilliant, courageous, and everything an American would be proud to fund.”

Other activities, however, “are broken and corrupt and result in domestic political activities that no American would condone,” Kennedy said. She declined to go into detail on national security grounds but claimed that actors within U.S. intelligence agencies are using “covert resources to affect political outcomes,” the Journal reported.

Ultimately, she told the Journal, she decided to resign “once it became clear that certain intelligence agencies were stonewalling elected leaders.”

Kennedy also dismissed a report from The Washington Post that cited sources saying she left in part because she disagreed with President Donald Trump’s war with Iran. Kennedy said the Post’s report was inaccurate, praising Trump for “future-proofing” against a longer conflict.

“My concern isn’t about the president’s foreign policy,” she told the Journal. “It’s about the political weaponization of our security services here in the United States.”

A CIA spokesperson disputed Kennedy’s claims, describing them as “totally false” to the Journal.

“The CIA keeps its oversight committees fully and currently informed regarding agency resources and expenditures,” the rep said in a statement.

Kennedy told the Journal that she will maintain her seat on the president’s intelligence advisory committee, but said she’d only return to the administration if there was “a genuine appetite to eliminate domestic political abuses” in the intelligence community.

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