McKinnon case rumbles on as Tories vote against extradition
By Maggie Holland in Editorial
Posted in Security on
Hardly a day goes by without Gary McKinnon’s name being mentioned. If you don’t know who Gary McKinnon is, many people would assume you’re a bit detached from the real world or living in a vacuum. Or just not interested in one of the most high-profile hacking cases in recent years.
To recap, he was the man who hacked into the pentagon. He’s admitted what he’s done, but the legal wrangles continue as to whether he should be tried for his crime in the UK or US. Clearly the latter will be less kind to him in terms of sentencing, if kind indeed be a word you can use when it comes to prisons.
This week, the Conservative Party got involved. They’ve got a view on everything else, so it’s no surprise that they would add their say to McKinnon-gate too.
Indeed, according to media reports, today the opposition plans to use a Commons Vote to show their displeasure in a possible extradition order being granted.
“The information that must be provided by both the United States and the United Kingdom is effectively the same. The United Kingdom must demonstrate ‘probable cause’ to the United States courts, while the United States must demonstrate ‘reasonable suspicion’ to ours,” the Home Office claimed in a statement published by the Guardian.
“Extradition is a key crime-fighting measure in our increasingly globalised world and, within what the law permits, we give maximum assistance to all of our extradition partners.”
Not yet rated
Loading ...Comment by Charles Smyth - July 15, 2009 on 12:56 pm
Gary McKinnon did no hacking. He simply used the little knowledge he had, and freely available software tools, to literally walk into what are supposed to be secure networks. The hubris and vindictiveness of the US authorities, is truly breathtaking. Gary McKinnon should be given the Congressional Medal for showing the American people how they are being bilked, over so-called security. Against real hackers from Russia and China, for example, US network security, is toast.
Comment by Colin - July 15, 2009 on 1:09 pm
Surely if Gary now endeavours to commit any simple crime in the UK which requires him to be tried in a UK court he can plead guilty and ask for the previous crime of hacking to be taken into consideration. Then according to UK law he can not be tried again for a crime he has already been punished for.
Make a comment
Tag cloud
Archives
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
Most commented posts
- A message for the boy on the 9.50 train
6 comments
- Shafted. Poor Stephen Fry
- Apple iPhone: When G and S kissed and made up
- France Telecom exec lets slip about Apple tablet
- Not over the hill...yet
- Was life better before mobile phones came along?
- TomTom iPhone app review: first impressions
- Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam
- Star Wars - adventures in 3G
- The good ship Twitter SMS sails no more
Highest Rated Blog Posts
- A message for the boy on the 9.50 train (100%)
- Was life better before mobile phones came along? (100%)
- The business of intelligence (100%)
- MWC 2008: It starts... (100%)
- Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam (100%)
- Quiet carriages? Like chocolate teapots? (100%)
- The iPhone 3G final countdown... (100%)
- Star Wars - adventures in 3G (100%)
- Happy belated birthday Steve Jobs! (100%)
- iPhone makes its debut on stage at Wembley (100%)