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philip964 wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 12:24 pm
Surprised there was not some sort of big fireplace, rather than having barrels on fire. BTW why did they have barrels? Did they have them on site already or was someone sent out to buy barrels. Not even sure where you would buy a barrel. Haven't seen them at Home Depot. If they had them on site, why? In case they needed to ship someone home?

Any US facility housing Classified and/or sensitive information is supposed to have an emergency destruction plan. Everyone that I worked at did. Those plans varied as to their realistic ability be carried out. I would guess the Chinese have the same requirement and probably, being a large bureaucracy, similar problems.

If they took over existing buildings to use as their consulate, there may have not been any thing in the building suitable for quickly destroying documents, so they may have acquired These drums you talk about. (I didn’t see them, were they 55 gallon drums? I wouldn’t think those would be hard to find.)

philip964 wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 12:24 pm Supposedly a big spy place. Spying on Med Center, Nasa and Oil Industry. Interesting the burning, I guess shredding is out after Iran put together all the shredded strips after they invaded our Embassy.

Surprised there was not some sort of big fireplace, rather than having barrels on fire. BTW why did they have barrels? Did they have them on site already or was someone sent out to buy barrels. Not even sure where you would buy a barrel. Haven't seen them at Home Depot. If they had them on site, why? In case they needed to ship someone home?

The embassy that I worked out of back in the early 70s had a large incinerator that we utilized for a few days before the deadline for us to leave the country.

Yes, they appeared to be 55 gallon drums.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/2 ... ate-380220

You can't make us leave says Houston Chinese Consulate.

Soccerdad1995 wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:54 am This would be a particularly bad time to have anything resembling an active shooting war, not that there is ever a good time for that.

Unless you are one of the neocons who is always looking for a war to involve the country in.

philip964 wrote: Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:52 am Yes, they appeared to be 55 gallon drums.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/2 ... ate-380220

You can't make us leave says Houston Chinese Consulate.

Waiting for some federal judge far from Houston to issue an injunction against the President’s order.