Billmon: A Fitzmas Carol

At last the the cover up was done, the hard drives cleared, the secure areas swept, and the stories rehearsed. The alibis having been tested, and considered perfect, interrogatories were put upon the table, and a shovel-full of incriminating documents thrown in the shredder. Then all the vice president's staff drew round the hearth, in what Dick Cheney called a circle, meaning half a one; and at the vice president's elbow stood the office display of torture devices. Two thumbscrews and a rack missing one shackle.