alt Hacker NewsHe should resign bc of fucking his clients and employee ( I know no man at his level got punished by abuse their power in the past, but I really hope this can be the norm)
The spy thing though smells so suspicious, even some in congress raised this. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/11/jim-himes-alice-hua...
Replies
"abuse their power"
sis/bro he was honeypotted
Also a LOT of people meet at work...
Neither the affairs nor the direct consequences for him are very surprising (especially if you heard about the sex cult stuff that's been going on at the top of AI research). Not even the chinese spy story would be terribly far-fetched. I'm sure he's very high on China's list of people they'd like to control. Heck, even if she wasn't a spy, they probably knew about the affair. The only really surprising part is the timing. Midterms crushed Republican fueled AI dreams, Anthropic IPO is imminent and mere days before NVDA earnings? Someone betting against the market is making a fortune right now. This is likely yet another facet of the trillion dollar insider game we've seen running in the current administration. They know they're cooked, so they'll extract as much money as possible while they still can.
> In a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday, Himes told POLITICO he left the briefing given by heads of U.S. intelligence agencies to top lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees without clarity on whether Alice Huang knowingly cultivated information for the Chinese government on the $4 trillion U.S. chip company, or was a “useful idiot” unaware of China’s wider espionage activities.
This is a far more nuanced statement than you're portraying it to be. He appears comfortable with the spying conclusion, just not who was in on the chain of command. (An "unwitting spy"; https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/15/world/roosevelt-aide-call...)
The sanctions evasion and $25M donation to the White House ballroom project around that time raise other questions relevant to the firing.