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>He’s a tenured professor and already has permanent residency at the very least. He is most likely a US citizen. The current administration have proven they do not care about any of these things. Even natural born citizens are now under threat.
Can you name one?
Gay people
Doctors that provide abortions
Doctors that provide gender affirming care
Students protesting against Israel
Just to name a few
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Drake who? Whoever, it wasn’t FISC, because FISC doesn’t have jurisdiction to do any trials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Drake
> Federal Judge Richard D. Bennett was responsible for hearing handling the case, and initially set trial for June 2011
He then plead out
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I'm totally in favor of holding the current administration accountable for what they are doing and clamping down on all the authoritarian actions as much as possible. But I'm not in favor of compromising principles to do it. There are plenty of things that they're doing that are documented that are evil. There's no need to waste energy and credibility speculating about things that aren't yet understood or documented,…
There is a point where "benefit of the doubt" is not appropriate though. Personal opinion is that point is past.
I can think of plenty of examples of shady things various official bodies in the US have done within the past century, but regular occurrences of "extrajudicial kidnapping without a paper trail" isn't one of them.
If you go through proper channels and leave a paper trail then regardless of whether or not you agree with what's been done it can't reasonably said to be "disappearing" someone.
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Seems like the most likely explanation to me. If he were arrested for being a spy, presumably the DOJ would want to showcase it.
Think like a Bayesian. How many spies have been caught lately? of them, how many did the DOJ showcase? Wikipedia has a list of imprisoned spies in the USA. It is pretty sparse, the last spy to be convicted in the USA was in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_imprisoned_spies Searching the DOJ homepage with the search term “spy” (to see which they have showcased) gives us 209 results, including a bunch of new…
If it turns out that he was somehow repatriated to his home country under compulsion that would not be terribly surprising. Nor would it be surprising if he was a "spy" or even a double agent. The FBI raiding his home suggests that he was somehow implicated either as a foreign agent or as a compromised intelligence asset, and one side or the other wanted him back.
> Nor would it be surprising if he was a "spy" or even a double agent. It would be very surprising. How many spies and 'double agents' are there?
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We have no evidence that Wang "was" disappeared. We know that he's nowhere to be found, that the university put him on leave weeks ago [0], and that the FBI recently searched his home. Notably, the university put him on leave weeks before the FBI searched his home. That sequence is better explained by the hypothesis that Wang vanished himself suddenly and the university called in the FBI to investigate things that th…
On the long list of problems caused by the government "disappearing" people (which they have objectively been doing lately) is that it destroys trust and therefore makes even valid legal proceedings seem more shady than they would in a world in which due process was a universal guarantee in practice. I don't fault anyone for jumping to conclusions implicating the government is in the wrong here rather than Wang.
If you know where someone is being held (like Louisiana, for example) they weren't 'disappeared'.
This hasn't hit mainstream media yet. It should have by now. Disappearing people is not something the US government is allowed to do. Here's Xiaofeng Wang's bio on the Indiana University site.[1] Google Scholar.[2] Archived version of home page at Indiana University.[3] If anybody has a PACER account, please check there. [1] https://alliance.iu.edu/members/member/8580.html [2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?use…
We have no evidence that Wang "was" disappeared. We know that he's nowhere to be found, that the university put him on leave weeks ago [0], and that the FBI recently searched his home. Notably, the university put him on leave weeks before the FBI searched his home. That sequence is better explained by the hypothesis that Wang vanished himself suddenly and the university called in the FBI to investigate things that th…
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> Nor would it be surprising if he was a "spy" or even a double agent. It would be very surprising. How many spies and 'double agents' are there?
Even “friendly” and “allied” nations spy on each other.
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We have no evidence that Wang "was" disappeared. We know that he's nowhere to be found, that the university put him on leave weeks ago [0], and that the FBI recently searched his home. Notably, the university put him on leave weeks before the FBI searched his home. That sequence is better explained by the hypothesis that Wang vanished himself suddenly and the university called in the FBI to investigate things that th…
Your hypothesis definitely doesn't account for the university scrubbing him from their website.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43528036
Again, pure speculation, as is everything right now.