Latte Alert: Former Bush CIA Chief Drinks ‘Em

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Since learning that Rep. Katherine Harris drinks Starbucks lattes, we’ve put the word out to our network of Washington informants: if you see anyone important ordering coffee, we want to know.

The Muckphone rang a little after nine this morning: Recently deposed CIA chief Porter Goss was just in a Starbucks on Capitol Hill, a reliable tipster told me. I saw him order a grande latte.

Fascinating. The former GOP House intelligence committee chairman, hand-picked by Bush to bring the CIA to heel, sips Starbucks?

Interesting trivia, to be sure. But with two prominent GOP partisans quaffing Starbucks brew — and big ones, at that — let me put this question out there: isn’t it about time to put to rest this canard that only liberals sip lattes?

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