Pisco Capel / Pisco Sour - Tiki Drinks and Food

H Humuhumu Member San Francisco Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 3691	H Humuhumu Posted posted on Mon, May 3, 2004 5:01 PM I suddenly feel my life may be in danger for having read this highly sensitive information. I must drink heavily to obliterate the brain cells in which this knowledge is stored. Read at your own risk: New U.S. 'Secrets' Include Pinochet's Pisco Sours WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Don't tell anyone, but Augusto Pinochet was partial to scotch and pisco sours. This information about the former Chilean dictator's beverage preferences used to be public knowledge but is now one of 14 million U.S. secrets that were classified last year, the National Security Archive -- an independent nongovernmental watchdog group -- said on Monday. That's up from 11 million national security secrets classified in 2002 and 8 million the year before that, the archive said in a statement, which also included the details on what Pinochet liked to drink. That piquant information was included in a 1975 biographical sketch of Pinochet by the Defense Intelligence Agency. The sketch was released in full in 1999 when President Bill Clinton declassified U.S. documents related to human rights abuses in Chile. It was re-released in 2003, but with much of the material blacked out. Now it is officially under wraps again, but the archive posted both the blacked-out and full versions on its Web site, http://www.nsarchive.org. "It's reflexive, knee-jerk secrecy," said the archive's director, Thomas Blanton. "Nobody's back there behind the curtain asking, 'Does this secret make us safer or is it just to keep somebody from being embarrassed?"' The information on the 14 million new secrets comes from a new report released to President Bush by the Information Security Oversight Office, which oversees the national security secrecy system, the archive said. The National Security Archive is an independent nongovernmental research institute and library. I had it all backwards -- the best bed is the one that's stumbling distance from Tiki-Ti, or the Mai Kai, or the Lagoon Room, or the Alibi, or the Kon Tiki, or... Critiki [ Edited by: Humuhumu on 2004-05-03 17:01 ]

I suddenly feel my life may be in danger for having read this highly sensitive information. I must drink heavily to obliterate the brain cells in which this knowledge is stored. Read at your own risk:

New U.S. 'Secrets' Include Pinochet's Pisco Sours

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Don't tell anyone, but Augusto Pinochet was partial to scotch and pisco sours.

This information about the former Chilean dictator's beverage preferences used to be public knowledge but is now one of 14 million U.S. secrets that were classified last year, the National Security Archive -- an independent nongovernmental watchdog group -- said on Monday.

That's up from 11 million national security secrets classified in 2002 and 8 million the year before that, the archive said in a statement, which also included the details on what Pinochet liked to drink.

That piquant information was included in a 1975 biographical sketch of Pinochet by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

The sketch was released in full in 1999 when President Bill Clinton declassified U.S. documents related to human rights abuses in Chile. It was re-released in 2003, but with much of the material blacked out. Now it is officially under wraps again, but the archive posted both the blacked-out and full versions on its Web site, http://www.nsarchive.org.

"It's reflexive, knee-jerk secrecy," said the archive's director, Thomas Blanton. "Nobody's back there behind the curtain asking, 'Does this secret make us safer or is it just to keep somebody from being embarrassed?"'

The information on the 14 million new secrets comes from a new report released to President Bush by the Information Security Oversight Office, which oversees the national security secrecy system, the archive said.

The National Security Archive is an independent nongovernmental research institute and library.

I had it all backwards -- the best bed is the one that's stumbling distance from Tiki-Ti, or the Mai Kai, or the Lagoon Room, or the Alibi, or the Kon Tiki, or...
Critiki

[ Edited by: Humuhumu on 2004-05-03 17:01 ]

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