It's all just a coincidence...

Keep telling yourself - it's all just a coincidence. Four lawyers in the White House are under suspicion for the destruction of the CIA videotapes, and then this fire. If they wanted to destroy them, they could have found a better way to do it, don't you think?

please point me to WHAT HAPPENED???

That's Old Executive Office Building. A lot of smoke, but everyone got out safely. Don't know the cause or what was damaged or destroyed yet.

no disobeying any instructions not to destroy anything, no trying to hide that something WAS destroyed. I'm dying to hear about what was "lost" in the fire.

destroyed.

It must be such a burden to think like these criminals.. :-)

"Um, we can't do that. There's bad stuff in there."
"Okay, so should we destroy them?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, I'll warm up the shredder. We'll say they were lost."
"Nah, that's too boring. Not risky enough."
"Okay, what should we do?"
"Stick 'em in Cheney's office, and then light the building on fire. Nobody will see anything suspicious about that."

Or his arrest records for cocaine. Funny how this guy's records keep disappearing or are destroyed.

unbelieveable. Dick needs to take care to follow proper procedures of fire safety while destroying documents in his office.

caused the fire!

of sensitive documents. A secret service member has already stated that the fire wasn't arson....

A far, far better way would be to quietly shred, and then insist that the documents were lost or never existed--which is what people almost always do, including in this administration.

impossible for them to claim "we've lost everything" all the time without some sort of fall back excuse like this..

Now, most of those documents are useless, and the rest have only a vague relation to the investigations. But it's certainly easy for them to say, "Well, we gave you everything we have. Look at all those documents. It's obviously politically motivated, the way you're trumping up the importance of the 0.1% of documents we don't have any more."

A server crash is a good fallback excuse. Poor staffing decisions leading to thousands of documents being misfiled or destroyed is a good fallback excuse. The VP's office suddenly catching fire is a comical excuse.

I'm not saying it was purely a coincidence. I just think that saying "it was obviously a coverup" is giving them way, way, way too little credit.