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.

I saw a bit of the briefing and Duffy talked a bunch about Congress needing to appropriate them more money so "Trump can build" a more modern network, before he leaves office, 'cause the current system is old and this is a "National Security issue" (sound familiar), etc. He's not wrong about some of that, but ... [puts on tin-foil hat] ... maybe this was just a manufactured "crisis" to get more funding, or someone actually hacked into the system ... [takes off tin-foil hat] Extreme conspiracy thinking, I know, but I wouldn't put things like that past this administration, one known to lie, obfuscate or just be incompetent. [takes off backup tin-foil hat] :-)

There's always an excuse.

He that is good at making excuses, is generally good for nothing else.

Or they all just want a chance to sleep with him, as their boss, too. ;-)

We are all humans and can make mistakes.

He slept with three other women who were not his wife. That's three "mistakes". Three strikes and you're out.

If you can't honor your marriage contract, what business contract are you also going to violate?

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

If every guy who ever had an affair got the sack the churn would be unbelievable

Then perhaps men shouldn't be so weak and stop cheating on their wives.

Marriage is a contract. If you break that contract you need to be penalized.

From TFA:

Good for you, now let's re-check your federal funding and access to the White House Press Pool ... /s

Nobody held accountable is par for the course in this U.S. Administration. Hopefully both of those will change in about 2 years.

Made me think if this exchange from South Park, "Make Love, Not Warcraft" (S10E08) between Randy, the president of Blizzard Entertainment and their Board members: