Shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic comes to mind as a comparable scenario. This reminds me of Tricky Dick Nixon arguing to the SCOTUSA that he was too important to World Peace to let the Watergate Committee subpoena his tape recordings about how to hide the truth about Watergate.

http://watergate.info/1974/07/24/supreme-court-orders-nixon-release-white-house-tapes.html