[MasterGunner01]

One should not forget what brought down the Russian “hardliners” that were unhappy with Gorbachev’s policies. The coup failed when Yeltsin got atop the APC outside the Russian White House and turned the troops against the plotters. The instigators started a scramble to destroy the evidence.

What the plotters forgot was that there were a lot of people who made copies of the message traffic the plotters wrote and squirreled it away in a Pearl Harbor File. The originals of the messages were destroyed, but the copies brought the plotters to Russian justice.

I don't think any of the players in Fast & Furious or Castaway are any smarter than the Russian coup plotters. Our plotters might be dumber than the Russians — mainly because our plotters don't have as much practical experience as the Russian participants.

[Munz]

exactly. i bet there is evidence there that they are unaware of that can be used.