Sierra Tucson
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Sierra Tucson is referenced as the treatment center named on the document Claypool produces; it functions as the origin of the sensitive, stigmatizing information that catalyzes the emotional reaction and legal fight.
Not physically present, but invoked with the aura of private, clinical confidentiality now weaponized in a public, legal setting.
Source of reputational vulnerability — the named location transforms private treatment into public evidence.
Symbolizes past trauma and private struggle; in this moment it becomes a loaded emblem used to shame and delegitimize a senior official.
As a treatment facility its records are presumed confidential; disclosure implies breach or illicit acquisition.
Sierra Tucson is referenced as the named rehabilitation facility where Leo allegedly spent twenty-eight days; though offstage, the location is invoked to supply narrative specificity and to convert private recovery into a concrete, humiliating fact in the deposition.
Not physically present in the scene but carries the atmosphere of private, clinical recovery that contrasts with the courtroom's exposure.
Referent — a locus of past trauma and recovery that is weaponized as evidence.
Represents private healing turned into public vulnerability; symbolic of how institutional power can be undermined by revealed personal history.
A private treatment center; records ordinarily confidential but here invoked as contested evidence.
Sierra Tucson is referenced as the clinical recovery center Leo left; it provides critical backstory that frames questions about whether he continued attending meetings and underlies staff concerns about confidentiality and vetting.
Evoke clinical, confidential medical care—an environment of privacy and recovery that contrasts with the public scrutiny now threatening to penetrate it.
Offstage origin for Leo's recovery history and a source of sensitivity about disclosure.
Represents private rehabilitation and the stigma that can attach to recovery in public life.
Confidential medical facility with privacy protections; not open to public inquiry without consent.
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In a bruising deposition Claypool methodically needleworks Josh, demanding notes that don’t exist and then produces a record that names Leo McGarry’s treatment at Sierra Tucson. Sam moves to block …
At a tense deposition Claypool relentlessly corners Josh about a past internal drug probe, then produces a Secret Service record revealing Leo McGarry's stay in a rehab facility for alcohol …
Leo rehearses a contrite public statement while staff probe the practical fallout of his past alcoholism. He refuses to reveal where or how often he attends A.A., bluntly tells Sam …