Where's there's smoke, there's fire -- and burning evidence.

The news of the recent White House fire isn't the first time an area near and dear to national security went up in flames shortly after a judge ruled against Cheney's log privilege. Remember the NSA building fire at Fort Meade last year? Curiously enough, it too was around the time that a judge ruled Cheney's logs are not privileged.

Judge Orders Cheney Visitor Logs Opened
"A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President
Dick Cheney's office and personal residence, an order that could spark a late election-season debate over lobbyists' White House access.

"While researching the access lobbyists and others had on the White House, The Washington Post asked in June for two years of White House visitor logs. The Secret Service refused to process the request, which government attorneys called 'a fishing expedition into the most sensitive details of the vice presidency.'" (AP)

(via TPM Muckraker) Also, the Fort Meade complex had an interesting web page that is no longer available.

I've scrapbooked it, of course.

From the former site:

    The 902D Military Intelligence Group is the US Army's largest Counterintelligence Unit, conducting the full range of CI activities, throughout the spectrum of conflict, and at all echelons, from tactical to strategic.

    The 902D Military Intelligence Group conducts counterintelligence with a worldwide focus to serve as a force multiplier for US Army Commanders.

    We serve as the Army's first line of defense in force protection, technology protection, counterespionage, counterterrorism and Foreign Intelligence Service threat awareness, CI advice and assistance, and operational security support.

Curiouser and curiouser...so, how deep does the rabbit hole go, and how far are we willing to get sucked into it before we start excavating?