Let us not forget the recent Fire at Fort Meade that burned counter-intelligence records...
Is it CYA? A data purge before stepping it up to the next level (change of hands?)? Or something completely different?
I can imagine the first accountability hearing or war crimes tribunal against Michael Hayden...
Prosecutor: General, what happened to the records that we've subpoenaed?
Hayden: I don't know, they were burned in the fire of 2006.
This fire provides the entire "intelligence" community with blanket immunity from this point forward. It must be nice for the traitors among them to get a clean slate in the event that their wild days of impunity could come to (hopefully somewhat of) an end.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."