[GOPJ]

The US Secret Service admitted in 2003 that it had been monitoring the distillery because the difference between distilling a fine whisky and making chemical weapons was “just a small tweak”. Is this true?

[Stoat]

The US Secret Service admitted in 2003 that it had been monitoring the distillery because the difference between distilling a fine whisky and making chemical weapons was “just a small tweak”. Is this true?

Not being a chemist I can't address the chemistry issue in a definitive way (I did take chemistry in college and decided that I would prefer to be shot out of a cannon at a circus rather than take any more chemistry courses) and as far as "The U.S. Secret Service admitted....." I would suggest that it is NOT true, because if it had actually happened it would be a part of the shrill and hysterical cacophony that we've been hearing from the Left: "Bush Administration Harassing Tiny Scottish Distillery!!"  "Religious Zealots In Bush Administration Spying On Distillery On Terror Pretext!!!" "Bush's Secret Service Thugs Make War on Distillery!!!"  etc. etc.

My guess mirrors that of many posters on this thread so far, in that it's most likely the product of a marketing / advertising brainstorm session fuelled by some 'special reserve' Single Malt  :-)