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TimeSnowDemos

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5. After the seige in the US embassy in Iran

Reply to Tactical Peek (Original post)

Wed May 30, 2018, 12:13 PM

May 2018

The Iranians hired textile weavers - mostly women - to use their weaving skills to piece together shredded US documents.

Those documents revealed that the US was planning and trying to launch a third coup against the Iranian government...

This lead to the US using burn bags.

Michael Cohen is now learning the hard way that normal shredders are essentially useless.

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... the government expects to produce "the contents of a shredding machine" to the special master... [View all] Tactical Peek May 2018 OP

If they're putting together shredded documents, you know they're serious... The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #1

If they're putting together shredded documents, dajoki May 2018 #9

Why 3 weeks? Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #2

Have you ever tried to put together a shredded document? The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #3

Get those Iranian students who did it at our Tehran embassy oh so long ago. And a lot of Scotch tape winstars May 2018 #4

These days its not just shredded. It ends up like rice. No Luz May 2018 #6

Maybe they used the older style or cheaper shredder that cuts papers into strips. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #8

I thought the point was... Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #7

After the seige in the US embassy in Iran TimeSnowDemos May 2018 #5