忧敏感信息外泄 美政府对华人科学家严加防范

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易林, 忧敏感信息外泄 美政府对华人科学家严加防范. VOA Chinese, July 11, 2019
https://www.voachinese.com/a/chi ... -07-12/4996694.html
("时胡文博目前是哈佛大学陈曾熙公共卫生学院(Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health) 的博士后。他自大学起就在美国求学，在加州大学洛杉矶分校进行了本科和博士课程的学习，研究领域是生物信息学。这是一门涵盖统计学、生物学、计算机科学等学科的跨学科研究")

Note:
(a)
(i) 时胡文博  Huwenbo Shi
(A) His Twitter introduces himself this way: "Postdoc at HSPH pHarvard School of Public Health]; PhD in Bioinformatics at UCLA; BS in Computer Science (also) at UCLA."
(B) bioinformatics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics

My understanding is people in bioinformatics do not do experiments at bench.
(ii) TH Chan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.H._Chan
(Chan Tseng-Hsi traditional Chinese: 陳曾熙)
(b) Though VOA Chinese does not say it, the above is inspired and triggered by
Deirdre Fernandes, Scrutiny Intensifies for Chinese Scientists; Many fear losing work because of federal actions. Boston Globe, July 8, 2019 (one of 2 front-page top reports)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metr ... to55rLuI/story.html

This report is available to the public.
(c)
(i) Lawyer Peter R Zeidenberg (a partner at Washington DC law firm Arent Fox) was defense attorney in US v Xiafen "Sherry" Chen, SD Ohio No 14-CR-149, where the government dropped charge a week before trial. Naturally he did not represent Chen in civil cases (to get her job back, suing US for damage).

SD Ohio means Southern District of Ohio.
(ii) Ohio Scientist Accused of Spying Sues Government After Charges Dropped. WCPO, Jan 22. 2019.
https://www.wcpo.com/news/state/ ... ter-charges-dropped
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WCPO-TV is "is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Cincinnati."  Wikipedia.

Under federal law, appeal from an ALJ decision is heard by board members (themselves, who are not attorneys -- definitely not "judges") of Merit Systems Protection Board, "an independent quasi-judicial agency established in 1979 * * * As of March 2019, the last member's term had expired and the Senate had not acted on President Trump's nominations. With a vacant board, its general counsel becomes the acting executive and administrative officer, and administrative judges still hear cases and issue initial decisions." Wikipedia. But there is currently no board members (federal law allows three).

Chen v United States (S.D.Ohio Jan 18, 2019) No 19-cv-45 (causes of action: malicious prosecution)
https://www.pacermonitor.com/pub ... d_States_of_America
The United States, through Department of Justice, filed a motion to dismiss on Apr 26, 2019, for failure to state a claim. I can not read the filing, but agree: Principally, United Sates allows itself to be sued in DC-based Court of Federal Claims only (so her Ohio case in federal district court will be dismissed and she will refileat the latter court; the Ohio suit shows her civil lawyers are incompetent).Parenthetically I presume Chen is suing for dropped criminal charge, not about her firing, whose appeal has not been decided (there is a long road ahead; after board mebers decide, either party may appeal to federal court of appeals.

(d) "At MIT, the story of the post-doctoral engineer's run-in with federal agents spread within the campus Chinese community * * * The journal Nature first reported on the engineer."

Elle Dolgin, Hostile Climate on US Campuses; MIT staff of Chinese descent describe how a government crackdown on foreign influence is affecting them. Nature, 571:157 (July 11, 2019; online publication July 2, 2019 -- the Web version has the same URL except ".pdf")
https://www.nature.com/magazine- ... 586-019-02063-z.pdf
(" 'It was scary,” says one former MIT engineering postdoc, now at Peking University in Beijing, who says he was twice interviewed last year by federal agents and asked not to be named in this article. He thinks this was, in part, because of his involvement in China's recruitment programme for overseas researchers, the Thousand Talents Plan. 'I feel like I was unfairly targeted just because I’m Chinese. It’s not necessary and it’s not right' ")

did not name him. The quotation is all there is in the Nature article about him.
(e) "Y Shrike Zhang, an associate bioengineer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School"
(i) Yu Shrike Zhang 张宇 is male. See Zhang Laboratory; Engineering living systems.
https://www.shrikezhang.com
(ii) shrike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrike