BREAKING NEWS: Fire erupts in office building on White House grounds

[PA Democrat]

No details yet.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Somebody's shredder must have overheated.

[spanone]

2. the lies got so hot: spontaneous combustion

[undeterred]

45. my thoughts exactly

[Ian David]

3. Bush's pants were on fire? Or are they desperately trying to destroy tons of documents? n/t

[seasat]

4. Wonder if it was the video tape room, email server, or file cabinets with memos?

Jus' sayin'

[madokie]

31. yep all three, I have it on the up and up too

[annabanana]

37. !

"When it looks like they're gaining on you, Burn the House Down!"

[madokie]

51. all stops has been removed

they are in full panic, pixels in a wad mode now and the congress critters had better wake to that fact soon too 'cause time is running out.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. Probably burning some video

Nothing to see here........

[Le Taz Hot]

6. Alright, who left the matches

within Georgie's reach? (Anyone seen the dog?)

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. No, Dick, NO!

Shred, THEN burn!

[Ian David]

8. If you don't have a link, can you please name source? n/t

[spanone]

10. it's on CNN's website

[PA Democrat]

13. MSNBC and CNN both have a banner on their website. No story yet.

http://www.cnn.com/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

[PA Democrat]

19. Streaming video link

http://www.cnn.com/video/live/live.html?stream=stream2

[babylonsister]

9. nt

[zabet]

11. Cheney forgot to

shut the door to
the teleporter when
he arrived from Hell
for work this morning.
:evilgrin:

[DeepModem Mom]

42. Good one!!!

[zabet]

52. Thanks!

GMTA
;)
:hi:

[TechBear_Seattle]

12. "We had no idea this could happen."

"We are not yet sure how video tapes of aggressive interrogations and White House visitor logs got stored in that garden shed, nor do we know how they caught fire in the middle of the night. We will investigate fully. Thank you, no more questions."

[Virginia Dare]

39. Did Cheney get a blow-torch for Christmas from his staff?...n/t

[Richard Steele]

14. Let me guess- in an area containing mostly files and documents. nm

[Libby2]

15. No fucking way??!

[Ian David]

16. CNN reports fire is burning in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.

CNN reports fire is burning in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.

No link, just JavaScript to video window.

Looks like serious smoke.

[Virginia Dare]

17. 3rd Floor, small fire, now contained, appears accidental...

no injuries, now in the clean-up stages. As per WTOP news radio and Alan Etter, DC Fire Spokesman.

[blogslut]

36. I'm watching a live stream

and it look like that fire's not out yet

EDIT ADD: As I was typing this that window next to the main pillars JUST stopped billowing smoke

[blogslut]

40. Correction

Billowing smoke again

EDIT ADD: It might be smoke/steam from putting it out. Not quite billowing but definitely smoking

[flordehinojos]

some of prescott's papers also got burned in an accidental fire!

this bush is a repeat of prescott in more ways than one!

[Virginia Dare]

50. Little convenient coincidences like these seem to be...

rather prevalent in the Bush family.

[ThomWV]

18. The pall of burning video tape hangs deep over the streets of Washington

[marmar]

20. How long before the press conference announcing what important documents were lost?

Like the Constitution.

[ThomWV]

41. All of them, at least any that might be in any way incriminating

[Ganja Ninja]

21. There goes those e-mails and white house logs and all the

incriminating evidence that could be used in any prosecutions after this administration is gone.

[blogslut]

22. Page link

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/19/eob.fire/index.html

[mmonk]

23. A fire?

Hhmmmm. Sounds a little like an echo.

[graywarrior]

24. George must have been given a "thinking" assignment.

[Eurobabe]

25. Liars, Liars, pants on fires!!

What was Bush trying to start some logs with charcoal lighter again?

[blogslut]

26. More about the Eisenhower Executive Office Building

From teh Wikipedia:

The building continues to house various agencies that compose the President's Executive Office, such as the Office of the Vice President, the Office of Management and Budget, and the National Security Council.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Executive_Office_Building

[PA Democrat]

30. How conveeeeeenient.

[Hippo_Tron]

46. Actually in this administration the VP has an office in the west wing

Cheney can't run the country when he's across the street from the oval office.

[blogslut]

49. heehee

So, let's just say it's Cheney's "front" office. ;)

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

27. MSNBC ~this is Cheneys office area.~ anyone here surprised?

[Ganja Ninja]

32. I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

:wow:











(not)

[underpants]

28. e-mail servers, lots of really important documents, and videotapes lost

I am sure

[blogslut]

29. Pic liberated from CNN

[NewJeffCT]

33. God raining fire down from the heavens?

maybe...

or satan coming up from hell to reclaim one of his own?

[johnnie]

34. georgie pulling a Richard Pryor?

Watch what you're doing when freebasing georgie boy.

[The Stranger]

38. Aw -- you beat me to it.

Hmmmm, sounds like someone was freebasing in the White House.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

35. cheney wants an apology from the building.

[Sannum]

43. Hmmmm....

Move along, nothing to see here. The tapes are just re-runs of Three's Company and Northern Exposure.

[MiniMe]

44. This has to be a huge fire, you can smell the smoke downtown

I work a few blocks away from the WH, there are sirens everywhere. I swear every fire truck in the city is headed there.

Not paranoid, but when you hear that many sirens going non stop you really start to wonder what the heck is going on.

CNN link: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/19/eob.fire/index.html

apparently started near Cheney's office. Hmmmm, what could be in Cheney's office that could be devastating? Wonder if they burned out the motors on the shredders and that is what started the fire.

[KoKo]

47. MSNBC saying fire started in an office next to the VP's office, Scooter's old office...

Lots of high profile offices there.

[cascadiance]

54. And lots of potential incriminating documents too! HMM!!!!!

I wonder if this is a "convenient" way to destroy evidence that Rove has them trying now!

Hmm... Was Darrell Issa there last night? He's had a history of these sorts of mysterious presences the night before a fire happens!

[graywarrior]

48. How much more of a fuck up can this administration be.

Can't even keep the White House safe.

[L. Coyote]

53. Are E-mail logs combustible?

[Locrian]

55. fire?

Whose pants was it?