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Monday 13 October 2008, 6:03 PM
Nasa hacker loses last-ditch appeal
In an email sent to ZDNet.co.uk on Monday, McKinnon's solicitor Karen Todner said that McKinnon's legal team would now consider "further judicial remedy".
"The secretary of state has advised [via] treasury solicitors that despite Mr McKinnon's diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome, she will now be making arrangements for his extradition," stated Todner. "We are now considering whether Mr McKinnon has any further judicial remedy, and we are urgently investigating this issue."
Todner told ZDNet.co.uk in September that her office was preparing a further appeal to the High Court should the appeal to the Home Secretary fail.
McKinnon has been accused by the US of hacking US military networks, including the Pentagon, and causing extensive damage. McKinnon has always denied harming any networks, claiming that initially he was searching for UFOs.
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They seem pretty determined to let him go. I hope his legal team can keep the apeal ball rolling along. Is he in custody whilst all this is happening?
No, he's not in custody, but he's suffering from depression.
Yeah I would be too. The whole thing sucks!!
This is undoubtedly a political accommodation whereby a bumbling man managed to hack his way past the DoD's computer security is being sacrificed to provide a cover up.
I feel that perhaps the Home Secretary should go in his stead - her absence would certainly not be detrimental to this country, quite the opposite.
The law is an ass!! The idiots who were driven to nod it through Parliament are also asses for allowing such an undemocratic procedure to be introduced.
