Okay, time to stir up some pointless controversy.
WOODFORD RESERVE IS OVER-RATED! There. I said it. Deal with it!
Did she discuss her favorite flavor of torture?
Haspel’s appearance drew protests from a small group of students who chanted in the rain while huddled under umbrellas. They cited her past role supervising a covert detention site in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning.
AP. Killing TPM’s brand one story at a time.
I might add that the best use of bourbon is to age in barrels which then are used to age ale.
There I said it.
It’s very similar, it involves being charred and the sealed in an oak barrel for an extended period.
The information goes down smooooth!
No argument here.
What’s your weapon of choice?
I am disturbed to no end that the first woman to head the CIA is also a torturer.
Rule by old white men is bad, for sure, but if we replace those amoral derelicts with younger, more feminine baddies, I hesitate to say we’ve made any progress.
Woodford Reserve is a good bourbon but it can’t hold a candle to Blanton’s or W.L. Weller (12 Year) or George T. Stagg or …
Okay, never mind, I need a drink: think there’s still some Bookers left in the cupboard.
When foreign officials visit the CIA, they sometimes leave with a fine bottle of Kentucky bourbon, newly confirmed CIA Director Gina Haspel said
Well, that’s a bad start.
How many foreign officials failed to report receiving a gift from the head of the main US intelligence agency and are now in trouble because the head of the CIA didn’t keep a secret?
What do the Muslim visitors get?
OT: Reminder to all TPM commenters
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Where is @Plucky when you need a native perspective. My guess is that Pappy is a little out of budget.
Waterboarded?
In a recent edblog post, Josh suggested that TPM has something like 100k users who are daily visitors.
I imagine the traffic spike is horrifying for a site that has 100k daily visitors, plus all the transient people coming from social media and whatnot.
And also: @ottnott is almost certainly correct that the congestion problems are entirely unrelated to the redesign. And that “almost” is only there because I don’t work at TPM.
Did she happen to discuss the difficulty of conducting foreign relations that occur when no foreign leader can trust what they are told by our President?
How about that other intelligence agencies can’t trust that our Twit-in-Chief won’t blurt out damaging information and get someone killed?
“She said the CIA also is working to beef up counter narcotics efforts abroad to address the nation’s opioid crisis.”
Yup, the opioid crisis brought on by the cartels in foreign countries. The constant lies from all governmental agencies…
I’ve never had any of the holy grail bourbons like Pappy Van Winkle. And, in NC the ABC store system puts a real crimp in availability that leads to me hitting the big liquor warehouses every time I go back to Kentucky, just to see what new premiums have popped up and buy airplane samples.
That said, my favorite isn’t available anymore. Elijah Craig (a brand I do not favor in the regular mass market product) single barrel 20 year old. Remaining unopened bottles of it are going for close to a grand now. They keep coming out with a different limited availability very old single barrels, but none really as good at that release.
But honestly, I really haven’t found anything that’s enough better than Jim Beam black label to justify the price differential. Which is weird because I was never much of a fan of their generic standard white label. Basil Haydon, also from the Beam distillery, is a bit better for ten bucks more, though the “Deadwood” connection is a little creepy.
On Iran, she said the Iranian people are suffering from economic problems because their economy has been mismanaged.Sanctions might have an impact there as well. Half a million Iraqis could testify to that if they weren't dead.
Basil Hayden is my go-to. There is always a bottle on my counter. Never been a big drinker of Jim Beam, though I’m now going to begin ordering it when I’m out to get a feel.
Never had Elijah Craig. First heard about it in college, when I didn’t have two $5s to rub together.
The one time I was in Kentucky, I was with a friend who I didn’t yet realize was a raging high-functioning alcoholic, and he steered us toward a lot of really cheap stuff.
Are you kidding? Muslims can’t get into the country.
But what I really want to know is what is this puff piece doing on TPM? It reads like a press release from the CIA’s PR firm.