UFO hacker McKinnon’s extradition delayed
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Blog, Security, Internet on
It would appear that Gary McKinnon has won yet more time before he gets extradited to the US to face the music on charges of hacking into computer systems not only belonging to NASA but also the US Army, Navy and Department of Defence. And all of this right after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The McKinnon legal team has so far used many tactics in their attempt to prevent McKinnon from justice US style. We’ve heard how he was allegedly threatened with a Guantanamo Bay military tribunal. Although Obama would appear to have knocked that one out of court within days of his inauguration as US President. More recently a different tactic was adopted, one of a willingness to plead guilty to offences under the Computer Misuse Act if prosecuted here in the UK.
For the most part a picture of an alien obsessed nerd has been painted with regards to McKinnon by his legal team. A man suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome, a kind of autism, who merely was intent on getting the proof he knew the US Government was hiding in relation to the existence of aliens and confirmations of UFO sightings.
With time running out, appeals failing and that extradition date looking ever more likely, the McKinnon team have struck it lucky and he may now evade a potential 60 year stretch in a US prison for his activities way back in 2002. For it seems that the High Court has given permission for McKinnon to apply for a judicial review against the extradition decision. This will now take place in the middle of March, leaving extra time for the Director of Public Prosecutions to consider that plea for a UK trial. This has been gathering weight with increasing suggestions that a US trial would not be fair given McKinnon’s mental health.
Indeed, the mental health issue is at the centre of the whole case now. On the 16th March the High Court will have to consider if extraditing someone with Asperger’s Syndrome constitutes torture, inhuman or degrading treatment as defined by the European Convention of Human Rights.
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Loading ...Comment by - January 24, 2009 on 3:11 pm
Hey,
Just go to show you.
Most (Nerds) are geeky,computer genius.
John McCall
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Comment by Thomas Holbrook II - January 24, 2009 on 8:05 pm
The person in question should just be fined a monetary amount (within reason) instead of having excessive jail sentences thrown upon him. I’m proud of my country, but I know when to set that pride aside in order to look at the bigger picture. It was NASA’s fault for not having their machines secure in the first place. Also, with out huge military budget, they couldn’t bother setting up decent security on their own networks? Sounds to me like it’s the 300 pound bully’s attempt to get revenge on the 90 pound nerd for humiliating him.
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Comment by - November 3, 2009 on 7:06 am
The American Military indeed have technology which is indeed out of this world. What has happened to this man is not unlike the house arrest of Dr Frank Strangist in the early 1970’s.
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