[HIB]McKinnon charges exaggerated by government

Alan Johnson, the former home secretary, made the accusations against Gary McKinnon, a British citizen, on 1 December. Alan Johnson told Parliament he would not stop McKinnon being extradited to appear before a US court.The home secretary said he could not interfere with the judicial process. The Extradition Act required him to represent in Parliament the interests of US prosecutors over those of a British citizen, before the case had even been brought to trial and where the prosecution evidence was in doubt."Gary McKinnon is accused of serious criminal offences," Johnson told Parliament on 1 December. "He is alleged to have repeatedly hacked into US government computer networks over a period of 13 months, including 97 US military computers from which he deleted vital operating systems and then copied encrypted information on to his own computer, shutting down the entire US Army's Military District of Washington's computer network for 24 hours."

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