If it's a toss-up between a de-facto Chinese takeover or a de-facto Israeli takeover, then the question is not what the resignation is trying to distract from, the question is why a vital strategic manufacturer is being taken over by a foreign power at all.

(Obviously, there's good reasons for a foreign power to want to have absolute leverage over how US businesses work. Whether those foreign powers are "hostile" or "benign" is irrelevant there and so of absolutely no consequence to the discussion. What matters is that the US should not place critical industries, on which essentially all other parts of their economy have become utterly dependent, in the hands of anyone not subject to US scrutiny or US law. As it stands, I dislike how corporations work, boards have accountability to nobody outside themselves and majority shareholders - which are also usually themselves. That's not an effective system.)

I'd certainly investigate the entire corporation. If the guy is abusing his position of authority (which means that any "consent" given is a fiction) and the employees actively support this, then there's a good chance that the behaviour is rampant in the company.

There is, however, a flip-side. He's undoubtedly led the company to produce some superb products and has pushed them in a well-identified direction. Far more so than virtually any other US corporation. There's very obviously something about his personality and mindset that is actually wanted to have a successful business, and this something is lacking within much of the western business community.

Basically, much of the western world is stuck in Harvard MBA Land, and companies operating under such principles invariably collapse from complete incompetence. They're popular because those with MBAs are usually brash, arrogant, controlling, dominant, and abusive - typical sociopathic traits - and sociopaths in the boardroom tend to be very good at producing stable management structures and very high stock returns. Just not successful busineses. But who cares, if you get rich?

This does not mean we need more sex offenders or Chinese spies running US megacorps. It means we need to find out exactly what in his attitude allowed him to identify successful patterns, we have no reason to want or desire any other aspects of the guy.

With budget reconciliation and a dead filibuster, anything is possible. Step 1: chuck Chuck.

What do you expect? "Person X is a spy for country Y" rarely comes with any detail, even when it's blatantly true. Intelligence work is by definition secretive and probabilistic. Nobody's gonna give you a blow-by-blow Ian Fleming novel about an active investigation.

To be clear about what we actually do know about the "spy" label: members of the US Congress (on appropriate committees, etc) apparently received a memo from the US intelligence community that speculated she may have been recruited by the Chinese MSS (Ministry of State Security.) It's not hard to guess how they might have gotten this leverage: on at least two occasions she's run into problems with the CSRC (China Securities Regulatory Commission), which they could have offered to make go away.

That said, sometimes a black-market importer is just in it for the money, and Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) said he found the narrative improbable after being briefed on it. Apparently the FBI is busy sniffing glue (thanks, Kash), the DNI's lackeys think the label is reaching, and the CIA feels she has plausible deniability. What is clear, however, is that China has definitely benefited from her self-interested actions, and she definitely used her romantic proximity to Jensen to achieve that. My understanding is that intelligence agencies often try to groom or coax such "useful" people to steer them into being more efficient/productive/relevant in their activities; so they're assets, even if they're not field agents.

when you're done beating it, please put that dead horse back on the pile with the rest of the Fox News scapegoats (and remember to wash your hands with soap)

Yes, I too blame Sports Illustrated!

I don't mean to alarm you, but there's a good chance this will actually be on the way out. The new cohort of Democrats seized on it and made it a major issue during the midterms. In total, 51 congresscritters signed a letter demanding it, and both Jeffries and Schumer have described it as a priority for the new session.

You'll have to get something new to moan about! Won't that be fun?

To think, an entire genre of low-effort knee-jerk Slashdot comment might become obsolete soon. I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime. Truly, miracles are possible. :')

"If that was the case, it would not only be sexual harassment, but rape."

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

"Stupid Americans."

File this under "ignored epiphany."

"Two employees having a sexual affair is not sexual harassment."

A supervisor having a sexual affair with an employee that reports to him most certainly *is* sexual harassment.

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It's not merely the women Huang has slept with. It's the women Huang has slept with *who were Communist agents.* It the women Huang has slept with *who were his own employees*. All three of these fall into one of those categories.

Trump knew for an entire year about the Jensen/spy situation; Jensen confessed to it, got defensive when asked about China, and there's plenty of photographic documentation that it existed. There's no coincidences here; it's routine for the US President to be get advance notice of something major before it goes public, and the blatant insider trading is just normal behavior for Trump.

No moral failing is so profound, no travesty so great, that it cannot be overlooked if doing so will insulate one's investments from the horrors of mediocrity.

Too true! And you can rely on that. In fact, he will continue to "have been a good boss" until the value of their stock portfolios recovers.

Should we email Microsoft and advise them on how to install Linux and FreeBSD on their servers?

Exactly how would you test for this when it's an effect you're not going to see until you have installations measured in the tens of thousands?