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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 counsel's office, for their role in the attack on the 2016 election. every time there's one of these indictments of foreign intelligence military operators, the u.s. prosecutors who file those indictments, they face the same criticism, right? this is just naming and shaming. this is a purely symbolic act. you'll never get...

This is a purely symbolic act. why even bother indicting? you'll 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 time you're not going to get them in a u.s. court, but apparently sometimes you do. documents filed ...

Part of the country or somewhere around the world. >> reporter: mit silber is the former head of the nypd's 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 potential dangerous behavior can track down a lone wolf. he point out in the case of atm tsarnaev, question...