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Post by auntym on May 25, 2011 17:49:50 GMT -6
www.openminds.tv/new-hope-for-ufo-hacker-mckinnon-692/ New hope for UFO hacker McKinnonJason McClellan | May 25, 2011 McKinnon with mother Janis (credit: FreeGary.co.uk)McKinnon with mother Janis (credit: FreeGary.co.uk) It appears that Scottish UFO hacker Gary McKinnon may have regained some hope in his fight to avoid extradition to the United States. During a joint press conference today with Britain’s prime minister David Cameron and U.S. president Barack Obama, ITV News Political Editor Tom Bradby asked the President and the Prime Minister about the McKinnon case. According to ITV News, the President responded that the issue is “in the hands of the British legal system.” In response to this news, Janis Sharp, McKinnon’s mother, posted the following message to her Twitter account: “Obama said on TV with Cameron, Happy to let UK make extradition decision and U.S will abide by it. #FreeGary.” TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by auntym on Dec 9, 2011 14:15:53 GMT -6
www.aannak.co.uk/304704/news/does-scottish-ufo-hunter-gary-mckinnon-deserve-60-years-in-a-us-prison.html/ Does Scottish UFO hunter Gary McKinnon deserve 60 years in a US prison?[/color] Nathalie Rothschild Posted: 9th, December 2011 GARY McKinnon’s timing was disastrous. For a 13-month period between 2001 and 2002, the then 35-year-old Scotsman hacked into nearly 100 Pentagon and NASA databases. He claims he was searching for extra-terrestrial energies and cover-ups of UFO activity. Not long after McKinnon got busted the 2003 Extradition Act was enacted. This was an agreement drawn up between the UK and the US in the wake of September 11. Though originally designed to fight terrorism it has been used as a tool to combat a range of other crimes. The US demanded McKinnon’s extradition and so his expected sentencing to six months of community service in the UK turned into a potential 60-year prison term in the US. McKinnon and his mother, Janis Sharp, have spent the past decade trying to fight the extradition order, urging for McKinnon to be tried at home instead. Backed up by the Daily Mail, Sharp has urged for reform of the 2003 Extradition Act. Meanwhile, the WikiLeaks phenomenon has heightened US sensitivities to hacking and security breaches, a situation which hardly plays in McKinnon’s favour. McKinnon has said that he was smoking a lot of marijuana at the time of his hacking ventures and he has since been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. Doctors are warning he may commit suicide if forced to board a plane to the US. But at least he has garnered a lot of sympathy. The Daily Mail‘s Affront to British Justice campaign has been backed by a number of MPs — including the now UK prime minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg — as well as celebrities, medical experts and civil liberties groups. This week, the campaign took a leap forward as the House of Commons called on the government to reform the 2003 Extradition Act, as well as the European Arrest Warrant regime, which is currently being invoked to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden. At the Commons hearing, Conservative MP Dominic Raab said: “Gary McKinnon should not be treated like some gangland mobster or al-Qaeda mastermind.” A central gripe of the reform proponents is that the 2003 Extradition Act places unequal demands on the British and UK judiciary systems. The US can demand the extradition of British citizens based only on “reasonable suspicion”, whereas US judges can reject a British application if no “probable cause” is shown. In other words, if the UK wants to extradite someone from the US, a prosecutor must produce proof of the crime, but not the other way around. Since 2004, 29 UK nationals or dual nationals have been extradited to the US, and only five US nationals have been handed over to Britain. As the name of the Daily Mail campaign suggests, the 2003 Act is seen by some as an affront to British citizens’ rights at the hands of a foreign nation; it is regarded as a breach of British sovereignty. CONTINUE READING: www.aannak.co.uk/304704/news/does-scottish-ufo-hunter-gary-mckinnon-deserve-60-years-in-a-us-prison.html/
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Post by skywalker on Dec 9, 2011 16:07:49 GMT -6
I don't think he deserves any time in a US prison or any other one. He is not a US citizen and he was not in the US when he hacked into the computer system...if what he did is not against the law in Britain then he should not even have been arrested.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2011 23:23:15 GMT -6
In defense of the government though, it's still technically espionage...
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Post by skywalker on Dec 10, 2011 1:09:37 GMT -6
We spy on other countries all the time. Should we turn our spies over just because they get caught? I think the only difference is that Mckinnon is a civilian rather than an officially sanctioned spy and that's why he is being screwed. He did something that the foreign pros could not do so the pros are trying to take him out.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2011 14:55:58 GMT -6
It is my understanding (and I hope I'm not repetitious) that Gary was able to go into all kinds of information because nothing was password protected. It's not like our government is going to thank him for bringing this to our attention. So, once this became common knowledge (that he "hacked" into our system), what is a super power to do? Make an example of him. Which makes it very smart to continue getting this guys name out . Now, if he turned out to be a spy, this would have been taken care of long ago. The more this drags on, the more we look like retaliating fools. IMO.
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Post by auntym on Feb 6, 2012 13:19:48 GMT -6
cnufos.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gary-mckinnon-s-findings-non-terrestrial-officers GARY MCKINNON'S FINDINGS; NON-TERRESTRIAL OFFICERS[/color] * Posted by Cnufos on February 6, 2012 Gary McKinnon, the man accused of hacking into top secret military computers and accessing information is awaiting resolution after over ten years. But McKinnon has revealed some of what he has seen to the public pertaining to extraterrestrials. And as the world waits, the things he found point to a few possibilities. Generally the McKinnon case is remembered primarily for its extraterrestrial link. Of particular note is the fact that the hacker discovered images that appeared to show an extraterrestrial object on the surface of Mars that looked to have been built by an unknown third party. Additionally, McKinnon noted the discovery of a number of spreadsheets outlining lists of what were labeled "Non-terrestrial officers." So what was he looking at? And what might this revelation tell us about interest in the Martian surface? First, even by McKinnon's own suggestion it could have all been part of an oddly disguised game, a sort of training exercise designed to examine the possibility of military action on the red planet at some point in the distant future. This is certainly possible, but it does raise some interesting questions. First of all, the names of military members used in the exercise did not match any of those McKinnon was able to find elsewhere. They seemed to consist of non-persons who had their identities removed or entirely manufactured for the purpose of the exercise. If it was a game, why go to the lengths of creating fictional characters and names while doing it? And then there's the matter of the photograph - an incredibly high resolution image of what appeared to be - in simplified terms - a UFO. This too could have been designed for the exercise. But if so, why make it so incredibly high resolution? Why not have a smaller simpler image to represent a fictional alien entity? Another possibility is the suggestion that the discovery could be related to actual real life exercises being conducted on the red planet. If Mars were involved in an actual military exercise it would likely require a tremendous secret budget. By 2008 the estimated black budget in the United States was an estimated $32 billion annually, and that number is estimated to have increased substantially since then. By comparison, the cost of the Apollo Spacecraft, Saturn I, Saturn IB, Saturn V, Launch Vehicle Engine Research, Mission Support, Tracking Data, Ground Facilities, and Operations expenses for the entire Apollo program was less than 23.9 billion. A considerable amount of that cost came from the fact that it was being performed for the first time using inefficient heavy materials and chemical based rockets. If somehow a more efficient means of propulsion had been secretly developed, it would decrease this cost significantly. There is one other possibility. If the military had made an alliance with a visiting extraterrestrial force, then it may very well have officers designated to travel on diplomatic missions far from Earth. And that would also explain what McKinnon saw in the photo he described as "unlike anything we had." CONTINUE READING: cnufos.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gary-mckinnon-s-findings-non-terrestrial-officersSOURCE - WWW.UNEXPLAINABLE.NETSOURCE LINK - www.unexplainable.net/UFO-Alien/Gary-McKinnon-s-Findings-Non...
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Post by skywalker on Feb 6, 2012 14:08:33 GMT -6
It is my understanding (and I hope I'm not repetitious) that Gary was able to go into all kinds of information because nothing was password protected. It's not like our government is going to thank him for bringing this to our attention. So, once this became common knowledge (that he "hacked" into our system), what is a super power to do? Make an example of him. Which makes it very smart to continue getting this guys name out . Now, if he turned out to be a spy, this would have been taken care of long ago. The more this drags on, the more we look like retaliating fools. IMO. From what I read about the Mckinnon case I believe the computer system he hacked into belonged to a defense contractor, not the actual government. But because the contractor had high-level security clearances he was able to access Top Secret materials that us civilians are not supposed to see. I'm not even sure there was anything specifically illegal about what he did. In my opinion he never even should have been arrested. If the government can't protect their secrets better than that then that is their problem. They should do a better job. Or better yet maybe they should just be more open with the public about what they are doing. I bet that 90% of the things they keep secret don't even need to be secret.
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Post by auntym on Mar 3, 2012 14:03:37 GMT -6
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-1675553627 January 2012 Gary Mckinnon: High Court judges try to speed up caseThe long-running case of computer hacker Gary McKinnon is taking too long to come back to court, the High Court has said. Two judges have now listed it for a hearing in July. They acted after hearing that the home secretary is "considering afresh" whether Mr McKinnon should be extradited to the US. Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger's syndrome, is accused of hacking US military computer systems in 2002. Edward Fitzgerald QC, appearing for McKinnon, told the judges it was hoped Theresa May would block US government extradition moves so there would be no more need for court action. The evidence of medical experts before her showed McKinnon, 45, was "suffering from a serious mental disorder and there is a serious risk of suicide if extradited", he said. Glasgow-born Mr McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, admits hacking into 97 Pentagon and Nasa computers from his flat, but claims he was looking for evidence of UFOs . CONTINUE READING: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16755536
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Post by skywalker on Mar 3, 2012 21:39:49 GMT -6
The dude has been in prison for ten years. Criminals commit mass murders and they often don't even spend that long in prison. What exactly is the government afraid of? That the truth about illegal and unethical things they are doing might accidentally get out? If they ever do let him out I hope the first thing he does is hack into their stupid system again.
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Post by skywalker on Mar 3, 2012 21:48:16 GMT -6
I must not be feeling very warm and fuzzy today...I think I just ripped the government a new one on three different threads. That has to be a new personal record. I'm going to calm down now. I don't want to wear myself out. Besides, with the clowns we have in Washington right now I'm sure there will plenty to complain about tomorrow. I'm shutting up now.
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Post by auntym on Mar 16, 2012 21:17:55 GMT -6
www.openminds.tv/hope-for-ufo-hacker-gary-mckinnon-904/Hope for UFO hacker Gary McKinnon?Jason McClellan | Mar 16, 2012 British Prime Minister David Cameron paid an official visit to the United States this week. Cameron was given the red carpet treatment on Tuesday when he arrived in the U.S. His three-day visit included a ride on Air Force One, taking in a March Madness basketball game and a hot dog with President Obama, and a swanky, star-studded dinner at the White House. But where business was concerned, Cameron discussed the extradition treaty between his country and the U.S. that has caused more than a decade of grief for UK UFO hacker Gary McKinnon. The Scottish computer hacker was charged by the U.S. with the “biggest military computer hack of all time” in 2001 and 2002 after looking for information about UFOs and extraterrestrials in NASA’s computers, and has been fighting extradition ever since. His mother, Janis Sharp, has been fighting non-stop on his behalf. She has met with David Cameron multiple times, and even wrote an open letter to President Obama, “Pleading with him to end ten years of torment,” according to the Daily Mail. This recent meeting between Obama and Cameron is not the only instance when McKinnon and the extradition treaty have been discussed. Sharp told the Welwyn Hatfield Times, “David Cameron has gone to Obama three times now and I hope it is third time lucky.” The Welwyn Hatfield Times reports that, following the recent meeting, Cameron stated, “I raised this issue with President Obama today and we had a good discussion . . . We will be following this up with further talks between our teams.” CONTINUE READING: www.openminds.tv/hope-for-ufo-hacker-gary-mckinnon-904/
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Post by skywalker on Mar 16, 2012 21:36:52 GMT -6
I was just thinking about gary McKinnon today...imagining what would happen if the case ever came to trial. I don't think the government has any legal case against him. First of all he was not in the US when he did the hacking so technically they have no legal jurisdiction over him. Secondly, he was accused of committing "the biggest military hack of all time" but they say he only hacked into NASA's computers. NASA isn't the military. NASA isn't even part of the government. They are a civilian agency, so how can they accuse him of hacking the military when NASA is not the military? Or is there some connection between the two that we don't know about?
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Post by auntym on Jul 1, 2012 10:53:23 GMT -6
www.whtimes.co.uk/news/ufo_hacker_extradition_treaty_lopsided_says_mp_1_1426353 UFO hacker extradition treaty ‘lopsided’ says MP[/color] By Paul Christian, Reporter Saturday, June 30, 2012 4:00 PM A TREATY between the US and UK, under which UFO hacker Gary McKinnon could be sent to the US, removes seven Britons for every one American sent here. That is the claim made by Tory MP Dominic Raab just weeks ahead of a decision on whether Mr McKinnon, whose mother Janis Sharp lives in Brookmans Park, will be extradited to face hacking charges. Mr Raab said: “When critics point to the lopsided nature of the relationship, they are right. “In the last six months, Britain extradited more of its nationals under the treaty than America has since 2004. “Overall, we surrender our nationals at a rate of seven for every one American extradited here.” Janis SharpJanis Sharp Ms Sharp told the WHT: “That’s true. “The US has five times the population we do so they should have extradited five times as many people. But their constitution protects them but who protects us – no one.” She said it was impossible for the UK to extradite US nationals who had allegedly committed crimes in the US, but UK citizens, like Mr McKinnon, who stood accused of committing offences in the UK, were afforded no such protection. Ms Sharp said she expected a decision on her son’s case would be made by Home Secretary Theresa May “within two weeks”. Mr Raab said the treaty suffered two fundamental flaws. GFirstly that US judges deciding on extradition to Britain had to weigh up evidence as a constitutional safeguard, and no such check exits here. Secondly he said “Gary McKinnon, Christopher Tappin and Richard O’Dwyer are all cross-border cases, where the allegedly unlawful conduct took place in Britain. “Yet, no American has even been extradited to the UK for things done on US soil.” CONTINUE READING: www.whtimes.co.uk/news/ufo_hacker_extradition_treaty_lopsided_says_mp_1_1426353
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Post by auntym on Oct 16, 2012 11:57:25 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Oct 23, 2012 21:45:14 GMT -6
Hurray for somebody finally standing up against Uncle Sam's Big Brother. I hope they let Mckinnon out of jail and drop the charges against him so he can hack into the government's stupid computer system again.
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Post by auntym on Oct 28, 2012 11:07:53 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Nov 3, 2012 14:41:15 GMT -6
www.realufos.net/2012/10/gary-mckinnon-to-reveal-findings-of-non.html UK Hacker Gary McKinnon Tells About Off World US Soildiers & Ships, UFO Sighting News. [/color] Published on Oct 16, 2012 by TaiwanUFO Here is simple tribute to the defiant and valiant Gary McKinnon for his increadible bravery as both a hacker of US gov computers and as a UFO researcher.
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Post by auntym on Dec 14, 2012 14:42:32 GMT -6
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248209/Gary-McKinnon-face-charges-hacking.html Gary McKinnon 'tearful with joy' after top prosecutor confirms the computer hacker will face no further criminal action[/color] *Gary McKinnon will not face charges, says Director of Public Prosecutions *Difficulty of co-ordinating U.S. and UK authorities made trial impractical *Hacker's legal victory comes after long-running campaign led by the Mail By Michael Seamark and Hugo Gye 14 December 2012 Gary McKinnon’s ten year nightmare finally ended today after police and prosecutors decided he will not stand trial in Britain. The computer hacker won his fight against extradition two months ago when Theresa May blocked U.S. demands to bundle him on a plane. Now Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer has announced that the 46-year-old, who medical experts warned was very likely to kill himself if extradited, will not face criminal charges in this country. The decision to drop the investigation into Mr McKinnon, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, comes after a long-running campaign by the Mail to stop him from being forced to stand trial in America. His mother Janis Sharp spoke of her delight that her son will walk free - and suggested he might seek a pardon for his alleged hacking from Barack Obama. 'It's amazing because it's my birthday,' she said. 'Gary was tearful because of the relief - he was so scared. It's going to be such a nice Christmas not to have everything hanging over us. She added: 'The next thing I would like to get, impossible though it seems, would be a pardon from President Obama. 'I think it's possible because I think Obama seems like a good person and so does his wife.' Ms Sharp told BBC News the case had been 'life-destroying'. CONTINUE READING: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248209/Gary-McKinnon-face-charges-hacking.html#ixzz2F3q13m7U
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Post by skywalker on Dec 14, 2012 22:51:12 GMT -6
Woo-hoo!! Victory at last! ;D Of course it is about ten years behind schedule since he has been locked up all of that time but at least he is finally going to be set free. Hurray for Great Britain for standing up to the evil US government and finally doing what is right.
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Post by auntym on Sept 18, 2013 12:31:47 GMT -6
Exopolitics, Gary McKinnon and the Secret Space Program
Published on Dec 12, 2012
In "Exopolitics, Gary McKinnon and the Secret Space Program" David Griffin examines the evidence that substantiates what UK computer hacker Gary McKinnon found. From an exopolitical perspective David highlights the impact of the reality of such a program on terrestrial culture and how it possibly effects any human/alien interaction. He makes the point that McKinnon's case is exopolitical in nature and represents the final symbolic struggle between power structures as far as Disclosure of the ET reality.
David Griffin presented "Exopolitics, Gary McKinnon and the Secret Space Program" at the 2nd Annual British Exopolitics Expo on Saturday August 7th, 2010 held at the University of Leeds.
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Post by auntym on Mar 19, 2014 16:21:23 GMT -6
www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/donal-macintyre-s-crime-cafe/true-crime-calendar-worlds-greatest-hackerOn this day in true crime how an autistic genius hacked into U.S. military computersWednesday 19th March 2014 Crime WorldBy Niamh O' Connor British police arrested Aspergers syndrome sufferer Gary McKinnon on March 19 2002 after he hacked into U.S. military and NASA computers over a 13 month period causing chaos. The computer genius, diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum by some of the world’s leading experts, had pulled off “the biggest military hack of all time” a U.S. prosecutor said. McKinnon had hacked into 97 key computers at his girlfriend’s aunt’s house using the online name, ‘Solo’. In that time he deleted critical files shutting down military computers in the district of Washington, and posting the message, ‘Your security is crap.’ McKinnon, born in 1966 in Scotland, claimed he was looking for evidence that the U.S. government had been suppressing information about extraterrestrials. For years he fought extradition to the United States where he was facing a possible ten year sentence. In 2009, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour released a single, ‘Chicago – Change The World’ online - featuring Bob Geldof and Chrissie Hyne, and McKinnon - backing his case for clemency. Finally, in October 2012 the U.K. home secretary, Theresa May blocked his extradition once and for all, sparking criticism from the U.S., which claimed tracking him down cost the US administration $700,000. UFO conspiracy enthusiasts believe McKinnon was spared formal charges, and a public trial, because he had discovered the truth. www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/donal-macintyre-s-crime-cafe/true-crime-calendar-worlds-greatest-hacker
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Post by auntym on Jan 29, 2020 19:51:34 GMT -6
GARY McKINNON'S FIRST INTERVIEW IN YEARS.
"PERFECTLY SMOOTH SHELL OF A CRAFT." GARY MCKINNON 1ST INTERVIEW IN YEARS. Richard Dolan Show.
•Mar 13, 2019
GARY McKINNON'S FIRST INTERVIEW IN YEARS.
UK citizen Gary McKinnon is the most famous UFO "hacker" of all time. Arrested in 2002, he was in danger of extradition to the US for ten years. What he found was apparent evidence of a secret space program, including references to "non-terrestrial officers" and ship to ship transfers of vessels not in the U.S. military inventory. Moreover, a high-resolution photograph, taken from space, of a smooth, cigar-shaped craft. Gary also talks about the repercussions of being sought by the U.S. government, his depression, suicidal thoughts, and more.
Richard Dolan is one of the world’s leading researchers and writers on the subject of UFOs and believes that they constitute the greatest mystery of our time. He is the author of two volumes of history, UFOs and the National Security State, both ground-breaking works which together provide the most factually complete and accessible narrative of the UFO subject available anywhere. He also co-authored a speculative book about the future, A.D. After Disclosure, the first-ever analysis not only of how UFO secrecy might end, but of the all-important question: what happens next?
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Post by auntym on Sept 25, 2023 13:27:51 GMT -6
Ancient Aliens: Galactic Federation Between Aliens & U.S. Government?! (Season 19)
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May 2023
Computer hacker uncovers proof that the U.S. government is working with extraterrestrial beings. See more in this scene from Season 19, Episode 7, "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind."
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