2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Remember all those people calling scooter and Cheney treasonous for outing the [View all]2banon
(7,321 posts)making an issue out of the obviously unintended is missing the mark completely.
I vaguely remember a fire in one of the offices of the State Dept back during Dubya's regime. a significant fire which was said to have been associated with Dick Cheney. (that confused me, does the VP have an office in the same building as the State Dept?)
This fire took place around the time of Fitzmas, aka "pending indictments" of Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and Dick Cheney. Justice was thwarted said the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, but he never said exactly what was done to thwart, except for the "sand in his face" remark which was a perfect metaphor but lacking specifics.
Rampant rumors of documents relevant to the Valerie Plane outing, along with intel cables evidence of manufacturing lies and misinformation WMD lies to bolster the rationalization for war in Iraq.
The destruction of server emails sort of seems to be on par with what happened during Bush/Cheney but the outing of Plame is completely different than the outing of someone who was not intended to be disclosed to the public.