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Fire Controlled at White House Compound (Cheney's Office)
AP ^ | 12/19/2007

Posted on 12/19/2007 11:02:54 AM PST by lowbridge

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. The vice president was not in the building at the time; he was in the West Wing of the White House with President Bush.

More than 1,000 people who work in the building were evacuated. The fire broke out on the second floor of the building around about 9:15 a.m. and was under control within a half hour, District of Columbia fire department spokesman Alan Etter said.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: cheney; dc; eisenhower; fire; whitehouse
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1 posted on 12/19/2007 11:02:57 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
Why was he destroying CIA files in his office?


/s

2 posted on 12/19/2007 11:04:44 AM PST by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: lowbridge

Interns smoking in the electrical closet?


3 posted on 12/19/2007 11:05:39 AM PST by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: lowbridge
Oh, what a glorious day to be a moonbat.

A day to allow full flower to your goofiest conspiracy theories without fear of ridicule.

4 posted on 12/19/2007 11:06:04 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: mtbopfuyn

I dont think it’s cigarettes that interns smoke...:-)


5 posted on 12/19/2007 11:06:20 AM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
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To: lowbridge

Uh oh. That doesn’t sound like a smoke free workplace.

/bad joke


6 posted on 12/19/2007 11:06:29 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: mtbopfuyn

I dont think it’s cigarettes that interns smoke...:-)


7 posted on 12/19/2007 11:06:37 AM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
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To: lowbridge

OMG, it was Cheney’s office suite! Holy industrial strength tin foil, Batman, this is gonna require a ton of popcorn.


8 posted on 12/19/2007 11:06:49 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: MaxMax

The ball bearings in the paper shredder ignited.

LOL


9 posted on 12/19/2007 11:06:49 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: lowbridge

Accidental shooting?

Or Hillary at work with Sandy Berger?


10 posted on 12/19/2007 11:07:23 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: dead

11 posted on 12/19/2007 11:08:35 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: lowbridge
Haliburton?
12 posted on 12/19/2007 11:10:06 AM PST by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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To: fish hawk

Now why would they bite the hand that feeds them?


13 posted on 12/19/2007 11:13:06 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: dead; PJ-Comix

It wouldn’t surprise me to see a DUmmie FUnnies in the near future from the “enlightened ones” full of the “could-a, should-a, would-a’s” and expressing their “best” incendiary thoughts...


14 posted on 12/19/2007 11:13:07 AM PST by rockrr (Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
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To: lowbridge

Bush’s fault!


15 posted on 12/19/2007 11:13:37 AM PST by YourAdHere (Buy My Book, Bradypalooza, from Amazon.Com)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Couldnt have been Hillary or anyone on her team. They wouldnt have waited for Cheney to leave the building.


16 posted on 12/19/2007 11:13:58 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

So any bets on how long before the Dem’s accuse Dick Cheney of starting the fire to hide documents?


17 posted on 12/19/2007 11:17:11 AM PST by viper592
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To: lowbridge
So, the White House is now part of a compound? I'd think that the White House and Eisenhower Executive Office Building would more properly described as a complex.

Of course, the term compound does have a much more sinister connotation to it so I'm sure it was inadvertent that they chose to use it. </sarcasm>

18 posted on 12/19/2007 11:18:37 AM PST by Bob
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To: dead; NonValueAdded
Yep, the Moonbats are in full cry. It's an orgy of vicious gloating and illiterate paranoia, as documented at Little Green Footballs.

Besides the usual bloodthirsty wishes for harm to come to Cheney, comparisons to the Reichstag fire seem to dominate comments from the lefty faithful. Obviously, Dubya is going to blame this on the Bolsheviks, we sheeple will believe it and go along with the totalitarian measures that result, and thousands of peaceful hippies will disappear into the Rocky Mountain Gulag (duly prepared by Hallibushwater and other evil minions, of course). Sheesh.

19 posted on 12/19/2007 11:21:59 AM PST by atomic conspiracy (Rousing the blog-rabble since 9-11-01)
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To: viper592

What time does Chrissy hit the airwaves?


20 posted on 12/19/2007 11:28:04 AM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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