Cheney Office Fire

AP:

Thick black smoke billowed from a fire Wednesday on the White House compound in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

The blaze appeared to be located in Vice President Dick Cheney's suite of ceremonial offices on the second floor of the building. Cheney and President Bush were across the street in the West Wing of the White House when the blaze broke out. It appeared to be under control within an hour.

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Comments

[Dogger]

What happened? Did the shredder break?

[imusintheevening]

Cheney's shredder caught fire when he poured gas on all the files and tapes in the room.

[Gary47]

No big deal. It's just Darth burning more evidence.

[stimpy]

It's the Reichstag all over again!

Just had to say that.

But I sure hope no important documents were lost...

[SadSong]

Oops!

Imagine that, all Cheney's records, destroyed.

Who would have thunk it?

[susang]

The white house blames the terrorists, HuffPo blames the Clintons.

[BLOGGINGBITCH]

Conservative over-loading an electrical box in a new renovation?

Yeah, court's Friday.

Smoke damage is hard on secret torture tapes.


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[in4success]

um... cheney's cerimonial offices? heh heh heh -- "oh damn! we were just going to cough up all those documents congress and justice needed for their investigations -- no... really... i had just sorted them and hd them stacked on my desk -- too bad. now they're nothing more than a pile of ashes. -- um... oh yeah . . . the data disks with the missing emails too. ::shrugg:: whad'ryagonna do -- an act of god. ya know... 'accidental fire. ::snark-snrk::"

[broncofan]

Cheney was last seen by the toaster oven with documents.

[LazarusLong]

Any critical records stored there...?

[REDWHITEBLUE]

There goes some more evidence.

[midwestvoter]

What a tragic coincidence! I sure hope in addition to any torture related evidence being destroyed they didn't lose the WH visitor logs, too!

[Felicty]

Cheney's panicking, and trying to burn all the incriminating documents.

[broncofan]

Cheney was last seen by the toaster oven with documents.

[writechic]

Lemme guess...the building houses visitor logs, CIA tapes, minutes, databases housing emails....