if something came out that was a fireable idea. i have no idea. the point is theyere given no explanation except they serve at the pleasure of the president and escorted off the grounds by hr. i e-mailed the hr woman who fired them. they forwarded me e-mails with her. i saw the back and forth they had with her. she never gave them any response. she never responded to me. the press office never responded to me at all on this story. the ripping part or the firing part. i never got any answer from the white house. so i have no insight into why they were fired, and it remains a mystery to them too. >> it is a interesting window into the personality and habits of a president to learn that as a matter of course apparently the president according to your piece tears stuff in half or tears it into teeny tiny little pieces after he's done looking like a document, he's like a human shredder, which is a thing. i don't know anybody else who does that. when you say the volume of torn-up materials that the national archive staff are trying to put back together with