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[Back when we executed traitors. This ch**k got what 38 months prison? He will be out in two years or less.]

The Rosenbergs were technically executed for espionage, not treason, which comes into play in wartime. The death penalty remains a live option for espionage. The threat of the needle was said to be what moved Robert Hanssen to plead guilty instead of fighting it out in court.

IIRC, the Rosenbergs were the only spies ever executed in peacetime, perhaps because of the nature of the material lost. This case involved a plea deal. I bet this defendant got 3 years because the threat of the death penalty for something like this was not credible.

I personally think spies should given long prison terms. But given the way Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen* sent a number of spies to their deaths and only got life sentences, this is probably proportionate. (Even Larry Chin**, the !$#% who got who knows how many GI’s killed in Korea, got less than a life term).

* Thanks to Hanssen, Felix Bloch, yet another Jewish spy, spent zero time in prison. Basically, human resources are what they are. You use the best you can get after a lengthy vetting and watch them like hawks. Most will be fine. The ones that aren’t - that’s why we have an FBI.

I can’t speak to defense contracting, but civilian tech is lousy with Orientals. That’s just the way it currently is. In chips, the two leading graphics chip manufacturers (ATI and Nvidia) were founded by Orientals. Gilead, the guys who came up with the failed Ebola drug, remdisivir, as well as a cure for Hep C, is 38% Asian. No telling what % is Oriental, but I’d bet a substantial chunk, given trend of the names I see every time I hear of some new thing in the life sciences.

https://www.gilead.com/careers/inclusion-and-diversity

It’s just one of those things. A bit of risk but not much of a choice, given the talent pool.

** Chin was exposed by a Chinese spy chief who defected to the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Qiangsheng That would be like the CIA chief defecting to some foreign country. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:umzfnaxwn8gJ:https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-fbi-head-refutes-claim-that-chinese-spy-was-assassinated_1982209.html+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-d While the Chinese intelligence agencies are catching minnows, the CIA is landing some whales. The most recent whale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ling_Wancheng