Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
  • Optional@lemmy.world
    58·
    17 days ago

    Did he hide a shitload of national security secrets in his bathroom with the chandelier?

    Oh no wait, if he did that they’d have done NOTHING

  • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
    40·
    17 days ago

    Looks like they found Satoshi Nakamoto and now Hegseth is gonna beat him with a sock fulla quarters til he gives Trump “all the bitcoins”

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
      4·
      17 days ago

      The modern FBI is not interested in counterespionage.

      I mean technically it is possible that this is some leftover of their operation before they joined up with America’s adversaries, but usually for counterespionage they would explain what’s going on instead of just disappearing the suspect. This seems potentially much more dark than that.

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            17 days ago

            I don’t see any “FBI raids location” statements on that page. It’s all arrests and other conclusions.

            • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
              6·
              17 days ago

              The dude is gone. No one knows where he is.

              Plus, there should be public records related to some of this stuff. I don’t actually know how it works if someone’s presenting a FISA warrant or something for a search of a physical location, but even in that case, I think the woman or her lawyer would at least be able to give a brief statement to the press explaining what they can and can’t talk about.

              But definitely for the arrest of the dude itself, there should be a public record and a warrant signed by a judge. If he was arrested by the normal federal-court-inclusive-of procedure.

              Plus, why is his employer pretending he never existed? That seems like a whole new chapter in this whole unfolding nightmare that we are progressively entering into.

              • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
                41·
                17 days ago

                Plus, why is his employer pretending he never existed?

                Any university that accepts federal funds is beholden to the federal government. And since universities need that money, they will do everything they can to keep Big Brother happy.

                • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
                  4·
                  17 days ago

                  I wasn’t expecting “pretending the guy that the feds disappeared had never existed” to appear on the bingo card quite this soon.

                  Some people were lecturing me just a few days ago about how we shouldn’t freak out and exaggerate and say that someone had been “disappeared” just because they were in ICE custody without any charges being filed and no one knew where they were for a few days. They might have had a point or they might not. But… maybe there are some details I’m not aware of, but on first hearing, this really does sound like they just disappeared this person in the full literal historical sense. And the university is going along with it.

                • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  17 days ago

                  Any university that accepts federal funds is beholden to the federal government.

                  Historically, the government and university systems have worked symbiotically to produce useful technologies and professional experts for each others’ benefits.

                  This isn’t simply cash-for-service. There has historically been a big revolving door between state agencies and academic institutions.

                  The Trump Admin is both cutting financial support to universities and purging state officials with friendly school ties.

  • mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    17 days ago

    Salt Typhoon is my guess. That team would’ve heavily benefit from someone with Dr. Xiaofeng Wang’s connections.