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British NASA hacker McKinnon could be tried in the UK
BRITISH NASA hacker Gary McKinnon could be tried in the UK, the Attorney General has said.
According to the Telegraph, the hacker who has fought a six-year battle against extradition to the US could be tried here after a judicial review was deemed as providing "guidelines only".
Last month, we reported that a review of extradition treaty agreements between the US and the UK ruled that extradition arrangements were operating fairly, which was bad news for McKinnon.
The review of the treaty began in September and followed complaints about the agreement, not to mention McKinnon's six year fight against extradition.
An extradition for the UFO obsessed Aspergers sufferer has long seemed like an inexorable eventuality. However, on Tuesday Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General said the review carried out by retired judge Sir Scott Baker offered "guidelines only".
Grieve also said that the Government was mulling the option of giving British judges new powers to bar extradition.
The Telegraph reports that in the House of Commons Grieve was asked whether he would give judges discretion to allow cases such as McKinnon's to be tried in the UK. He replied, "That is touched on in Sir Scott Baker's report and it is one of the matters which will have to be taken into account when the Government responds to it.
"His proposals are rather more in the nature of guidelines rather than the implementation of the forum bar itself. That is one of the matters the Government is going to have to consider." µ
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He is a UK citizen and should be tried in the UK. But I guess the weak UK government in the end will give in for US demand and ship him over. Just look at the neutral Swedes as in the Assange case. They gave in for US pressure and quite obviously set up a sex trap for Assange . He will quite possibly end up in the US one day. And when UFO’s is involved even worse. The lead investigator in a famous UFO case in Switzerland, a former USAF test pilot, after successfully carrying out a five year investigation , was locked up for five years. His offence was sexual misconduct. And he claimed he was being set up by the CIA.
The Swiss case http://meiersaken.info/
McKinnon has been fighting extradition since 2003.
He was first arrested in 2002.
He was re-arrested in 2005.
EXTRADITION CAN BE A GOOD THING, WE CANADIANS GOT RID OF MARC EMERY THIS WAY (WHO IS CURRENTLY TAKING IT UP THE YAZOO OR WHAT-ALL).
UK COULD USE EXTRADITION AS A MEANS OF GETTING RID OF ASSANGE, FOR EXAMPLE.
THESE ARE NOT NECESSARILY BAD THINGS!
It would be a pity to see this guy skate and get a slap on the wrist for his admitted hacking. He should be shipped to the U.S. for trial like any other person. He and his Mum seem to be real nutcakes so the apple doesn't fall far from the tree it would appear.
This lot will kowtow to the US over this - they haven't even got the courage to demand our partners in the war on terror do something about xxxIRA funding that still raises money to cause terror in NI to this day.