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Arrested, extradited, and sent here to face trial in a u.s. courtroom. the u.s. has indicted chinese military officers before, including for hacking crimes. the u.s. has indicted a whole bunch of russian military intelligence officers, quite recently, including by the special counsels office, for their role in the attack on the 2016 election. every time theres one of these indictments of foreign intelligence military operators, the u.s. prosecutors who file those indictments, they face the same ...

This is a purely symbolic act. why even bother indicting? youll never get these guys in a court of law. well, in this case, today they did. this is a case overseen by the counterintelligence unit of the fbi. this chinese military officer was arrested in belgium, charged in a sealed indictment. the indictment was unsealed today, and he was extradited to the u.s. today he was arraigned in federal court in ohio. i mean, charge a foreign military officer and charge a foreign spy, true, most of the t...

Part of the country or somewhere around the world. >> reporter: mit silber is the former head of the nypds counterintelligence unit. in 2007, he wrote a report about the threat of--gro- of home-gro terrorists, citing the biggest threat from homegrown citizenseral callized in the west, warn being muslims. generated controversy. the nypd has come under criticism for monitoring muslims. the department insists everything done is within a legal framework. silber stresses that keeping tabs on potentia...