US continues fight to extradite Gary McKinnon
Family and supporters of Gary McKinnon remain confident that their campaign against his extradition to the US will ultimately prove successful, despite the insistence of a senior Obama government law official that the alleged hacker ought to stand trial in the US.
Eric Holder, the US Attorney General, vowed that the Obama administration will "take all of the necessary steps" to have McKinnon extradited and "held accountable for the crimes that he committed". The statement, weeks before Obama is due to visit London, indicates that the Obama administration has the same desire to pursue McKinnon's extradition as its Bush-era counterpart. Supporters of McKinnon, who have maintained a high-profile campaign against his extradition since June 2005, had hoped that changes in governments in the US and UK might bring a change of heart.
The fate of McKinnon, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome and is considered a potential suicide risk if exposed to the stress of a US trial and likely imprisonment, now appears to rest with a review of medical evidence by Home Secretary Theresa May.
McKinnon battles renewed Obama-era extradition push
It seems the accused British hacker, who has Asperger's, is very much without friends in Parliament.
The threats come from US Attorney General, Eric Holder, who told London Tonight that the US is determined to get McKinnon extradited and would not give up. He told the ITV programme that the alleged hacker was a "person who committed serious crimes", which resulted in about $1 million worth of damages in the United States.
He added that seven judges in the UK had already decided that "extradition was appropriate," sticking the boot in further by citing the previous Home Secretary Alan Johnson, who, he says, agreed extradition was appropriate.
Mr McKinnon has been facing a lengthly fight since 2001 after he was accused of hacking into 97 computers operated by the U.S. government. At the time he claimed that he'd been looking for evidence of UFO cover ups, which had led him to look at files held by the Pentagon, Army, Air Force and NASA.
US continues fight to extradite Gary McKinnon - David Cameron does't say a word
David Cameron - ?It should still mean something to be a British citizen - with the full protection of the British Parliament, rather than a British Government trying to send you off to a foreign court? ....(July 2009)
Nick Clegg - "If he boards the plane to the U.S., it is almost certain he will never set foot on British soil again, doomed to pass out the rest of his days in shackles on a foreign shore. This is nothing short of a disgrace? ....(August 2009)
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Family and supporters of Gary McKinnon remain confident that their campaign against his extradition to the US will ultimately prove successful, despite the insistence of a senior Obama government law official that the alleged hacker ought to stand trial in the US.
Eric Holder, the US Attorney General, vowed that the Obama administration will "take all of the necessary steps" to have McKinnon extradited and "held accountable for the crimes that he committed". The statement, weeks before Obama is due to visit London, indicates that the Obama administration has the same desire to pursue McKinnon's extradition as its Bush-era counterpart. Supporters of McKinnon, who have maintained a high-profile campaign against his extradition since June 2005, had hoped that changes in governments in the US and UK might bring a change of heart.
The fate of McKinnon, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome and is considered a potential suicide risk if exposed to the stress of a US trial and likely imprisonment, now appears to rest with a review of medical evidence by Home Secretary Theresa May.
McKinnon battles renewed Obama-era extradition push
It seems the accused British hacker, who has Asperger's, is very much without friends in Parliament.
The threats come from US Attorney General, Eric Holder, who told London Tonight that the US is determined to get McKinnon extradited and would not give up. He told the ITV programme that the alleged hacker was a "person who committed serious crimes", which resulted in about $1 million worth of damages in the United States.
He added that seven judges in the UK had already decided that "extradition was appropriate," sticking the boot in further by citing the previous Home Secretary Alan Johnson, who, he says, agreed extradition was appropriate.
Mr McKinnon has been facing a lengthly fight since 2001 after he was accused of hacking into 97 computers operated by the U.S. government. At the time he claimed that he'd been looking for evidence of UFO cover ups, which had led him to look at files held by the Pentagon, Army, Air Force and NASA.
US continues fight to extradite Gary McKinnon - David Cameron does't say a word
David Cameron - ?It should still mean something to be a British citizen - with the full protection of the British Parliament, rather than a British Government trying to send you off to a foreign court? ....(July 2009)
Nick Clegg - "If he boards the plane to the U.S., it is almost certain he will never set foot on British soil again, doomed to pass out the rest of his days in shackles on a foreign shore. This is nothing short of a disgrace? ....(August 2009)
GARY McKINNON LATEST NEWS STORIES, INTERVIEWS and SUPPORTERS