I’ll have to ask Pat Robertson why God allowed this to happen, but I have a piece of advice. Cheney’s office should stick to erasing tapes and shredding papers. It’s hard to control indoor fires.
Thick black smoke billowed from a fire Wednesday in Vice President Dick Cheney’s suite of offices in the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.
Cheney’s office was damaged by smoke and water from fire hoses, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said.
I’m sure many ‘important papers’ were destroyed, as we’ll learn later in numerous court cases.
I just assumed it was Cheney’s pacemaker overloading when he saw the NYT piece. Had this visual of him and Addington tossing ‘tapes’ onto a heap on the office carpet then hopping up and down stomping them to death, giving up and using a blow torch borrowed from Fred.
Remember the NSA building fire at Fort Meade last year? Curiously enough, it too was around the time that a judge ruled Cheney’s logs are not privileged.
(via TPM Muckraker)
The Fort Meade complex had an interesting website that is no longer available.
I’ve scrapbooked it, of course.
From the former site:
I didn’t destroy the documents. I lit a fire. The FIRE destroyed documents.
I thought maybe Saddam had hidden those WMD’s in Cheney’s broom closet and they had become unstable after all these years.
Oh, come on. You really think Cheney would intentionally destroy important incriminating documents? For shame. I’m sure Cheney gets as bored with repetitive activity as normals do.
I figured he was just back to hunting the most dangerous game again, only with a bazooka to make sure he got his kill this time.
it seems everyone is taking this fairly lightly today.
I think evidence probably was destroyed, and deliberately so. where’s the real outrage?
There’s outrage alright.
Occam’s razor is that indeed the VP was engaged in destroying some sort of evidence. That’s where we are in 2007…the most plausible explanation for a fire in the Eisenhower building is that the Vice President was using it as a cover to deliberately destroy evidence. We’ll all have a good chuckle, but…the media won’t bother with it.
wouldn’t surprise me if cheney had his own copies of those, supposedly destroyed, cia tapes for his personal viewing pleasure.
probably tried to burn up everything in that walk-in, fire-proof safe he’s got in there, but when they shut the door, there wasn’t enough O2 to keep the fire going. therefore, they had to open the door and sacrifice some carpet and furniture in the name of national security. just bad luck, or perhaps foiled by science, no doubt.
criminals all.
lTMF’sA
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Diplomacy too hot to handle these days …
The Aussies on rampage – like whaling.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Outside the fire.
Being “Presidential” during the so-called emergency.
On BOTH of their faces were the unmistakable shit-eating smirks of college boys who have just gotten away with a panty raid-style prank and are rubbing their success into the faces of their superiors.
Tell me…
Why do YOU think that these men are smirking?
Hmmm…
The look on Cheney’s face oughta be admissible in a court of law as proof of guilt.
And the one on Butch’s face as proof of stupidity.
Deep.
Impeach ’em both.
As compulsive firebugs if for no other reason.
EVERYTHING they touch burns up.
AG
you’re right.