When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing… Atlantic.

… In March, Patel and his team brought at least one case of bourbon to the FBI’s training facility in Quantico, Virginia, for a ‘training seminar,’ where Ultimate Fighting Championship athletes provided mixed-martial-arts instruction to aspiring FBI agents and senior staff. At one point at least one bottle went missing, which caused the director to ‘lose his mind,’ […] Patel began threatening to polygraph and prosecute his staff over the missing bottle. ‘It turned into a shitshow.’

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