Clamor grows louder against discredited 'spy case' prosecutor

Scientists among those pushing for 'China Initiative' figure to be shut out

Calls are growing louder for US President Joe Biden to withdraw the nomination for a senior legal post of an assistant US attorney who wrongfully prosecuted a China-born scientist for Chinese espionage.

Casey Arrowood, the lead prosecutor of Anming Hu, a China-born nanotechnology expert at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, was nominated by Biden in late July to serve as the US attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee for four years. The Senate Judiciary Committee logged the nomination on Aug 1 and hasn't set a date for a vote.

A coalition of Asian American groups－APA Justice, the Asian American Scholar Forum, the Tennessee Chinese American Alliance, and United Chinese Americans－have launched a campaign calling on the White House to withdraw Arrowood's nomination and for the judiciary committee to take no action on the nomination until an investigation and a hearing have been completed.