irishspirit
30th November 2010, 15:51
A leaked American diplomatic document has revealed that former Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with the US Ambassador to discuss the case of Scottish computer hacker Gary McKinnon.
Mr McKinnon is wanted in the US for computer hacking charges. He was arrested in 2002 after American prosecutors accused him of hacking into military computer systems, the Department of Defence and Nasa, as well as sabotaging American military systems after the September 11, 2001 terror attack.
Mr McKinnon, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, says his motivation for his unauthorised use of sensitive networks was to find information on UFOs held by the US government.
A document that came to light on the Wikileaks website showed that Mr Brown had a one-to-one meeting with the US Ambassador in August 2009, and asked the US authorities to allow Mr McKinnon to serve any sentence in the UK if he admitted guilt and contrition for what he had done.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/213029-secret-document-reveals-pm-met-us-ambassador-to-discuss-scottish-hacker/
Mr McKinnon is wanted in the US for computer hacking charges. He was arrested in 2002 after American prosecutors accused him of hacking into military computer systems, the Department of Defence and Nasa, as well as sabotaging American military systems after the September 11, 2001 terror attack.
Mr McKinnon, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, says his motivation for his unauthorised use of sensitive networks was to find information on UFOs held by the US government.
A document that came to light on the Wikileaks website showed that Mr Brown had a one-to-one meeting with the US Ambassador in August 2009, and asked the US authorities to allow Mr McKinnon to serve any sentence in the UK if he admitted guilt and contrition for what he had done.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/213029-secret-document-reveals-pm-met-us-ambassador-to-discuss-scottish-hacker/