FBI Director Kash Patel travels with personalized Woodford Reserve bourbon bottles branded with his name and title, and in March brought a case to the FBI's Quantico training facility where at least one bottle went missing. Multiple news outlets report Patel responded by threatening staff with prosecution and polygraph tests, though Patel has denied the claims. The story hinges on accounts from retired/former agents and reporting by The Atlantic's Sarah Fitzpatrick, who Patel has previously sued over separate allegations — making sourcing credible but the dispute itself ongoing.