Gary McKinnon, the alleged Pentagon hacker, has lost his appeal against extradition to the US on hacking charges.
McKinnon failed to convince Appeal Court judges on Tuesday to overturn a 2006 ruling by Home Secretary John Reid that his extradition should go ahead. The Scot now faces a US trial of breaking into and damaging US Government computers.
McKinnon is alleged to have hacked into computers belonging to the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, Department of Defense, and NASA in 2001 and 2002. The Scot lost his first appeal against extradition in an High Court hearing last July but was given leave to take his case to a Appeal Court, a move that culminated in failure on Tuesday.
The funny thing here is what exactly will Gary McKinnon (we wrote on this July 06, and May 06)face in the US? With the Bush White House repeatedly being slapped about the head and neck for its misdeeds, I can only wonder what McKinnon will encounter on his arrival. His original fear had been that he would be tried as a terrorist and end up in Gitmo. I don’t see that as being very likely bearing in mind all of the negative press that they have received lately. This guy will most likely receive a fair trial.
Just a hunch.
[tags]McKinnon, Solo, Hacker Extradition[/tags]