Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Fire at the White House office building-Updates

Photos from CNN
I just heard about it on the radio. Is it so wrong of me to wonder if this is an attempt to destroy records with plausible deniability?
--I wasn't always this cynical

UPDATE 1: CNN's report included a couple of tidbits:
Vice President Dick Cheney's working offices are in the West Wing of the White House, where he was at the time of the fire.

and
There were no reports of injuries from the blaze, which appeared to be confined to the third floor, said D.C. Fire Department spokesman Alan Etter. Etter said the blaze appeared to have started in an electrical closet or a telephone bank.

Hmm, a telephone bank....

Communications

"We're sorry, folks, it is impossible to recreate communications that may or may not have happened between the OVP and other parties since the unfortunate incident when the fire broke out...."

UPDATE 2: Great photo with snarky caption over at Dependable Renegade.

2 comments:

MadPriest said...

It'll be a Christmas tree. Evidently, American ones are highly combustible and have to be banned.

Paul said...

I will grant you that we are as silly as y'all are eccentric, and that may be the saving grace for us all.

What an honor to see your first comment here.

I just regret that Cheney wasn't entangled in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, uncharitable, unchristian, blah, blah, blah.