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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_National_Laboratory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_National_Laboratory “ In 2020, the United States Department

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_National_Laboratory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_National_Laboratory “ In 2020, the United States Department of Education launched an investigation of the Galveston National Laboratory regarding any past interaction with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Consulate-General,_Houston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Consulate-General,_Hou... “ Within the hours after the announcement, videos emerged on Houston's locally broadcast KPRC-TV showing documents being burned in barrels in the courtyard of the consulate.[12] Local police and fire departments received reports of the fires at around 8 pm local time,[18] and as first responders arrived at the consulate, they were denied entry.”

everdrive 6y ago
This seems strange, because a consulate usually has equipment for securely destroying documents, which usually doesn't involve conspicuously burning them outside.
- skinkestek 6y ago
  Even US burns documents if necessary I think, isn't there a well known case with the embassy in Iran? While I was in the military I sometimes operated a secure shredder. It is a long time ago but I remember this: despite its rather large size the speed and the number of pages it would process was really limited. It had one thing going for it though: the output was thinly sliced :-)
  - everdrive 6y ago
    I was under the impression that the Iranians were able to successfully reconstruct many of the shredded documents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Tehran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_... "The Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line published documents seized in the embassy (including painstakingly reconstructed shredded documents) in a series of books called "Documents from the US Espionage Den" (Persian: اسناد لانه جاسوس امریكا, Asnād-e lāneh-e jasusi Amrikā).[10] These books included telegrams, correspondence, and reports from the United States Department of State and Central Intelligence Agency, some of which remain classified to this day."

everdrive 6y ago

This seems strange, because a consulate usually has equipment for securely destroying documents, which usually doesn't involve conspicuously burning them outside.

skinkestek 6y ago
Even US burns documents if necessary I think, isn't there a well known case with the embassy in Iran? While I was in the military I sometimes operated a secure shredder. It is a long time ago but I remember this: despite its rather large size the speed and the number of pages it would process was really limited. It had one thing going for it though: the output was thinly sliced :-)
- everdrive 6y ago
  I was under the impression that the Iranians were able to successfully reconstruct many of the shredded documents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Tehran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_... "The Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line published documents seized in the embassy (including painstakingly reconstructed shredded documents) in a series of books called "Documents from the US Espionage Den" (Persian: اسناد لانه جاسوس امریكا, Asnād-e lāneh-e jasusi Amrikā).[10] These books included telegrams, correspondence, and reports from the United States Department of State and Central Intelligence Agency, some of which remain classified to this day."