What an amazing turn around Gary Mc Kinnon's case has taken over the last year!
Attention to his case has reached its height this week as both president Obama and UK prime Minister David Cameron addressed the issue during a press conference and explained that a resolve for his case is underway.
This goes to show that raising public attention to certain concerns works and can really have an impact on government law makers.
Information is a powerful tool - now if we can only apply this same type of pressure on the Ufo disclosure topic maybe we can make some progress.
Press conference video:
Back in 2006 when first posted about this case, Mr Mckinnons story was obscure and ridiculed.
It became obvious that the US governments case against him was not just flawed but highly suspicious. Gary's hacking attempts could surely not add up to $
800000 worth of damage and it seemed that the charges were 'trumped up' to ensure he was made example of. Extradition for hacking is an unpredented action and it was more likely that it was the sensitive nature of the content what Gary was hacking into was the real reason for this harsh retaliation.
Gary said he was looking for evidence of Ufo's,
some believe history was fabricated to gain sympathy - but the prosecutions own case against him does indeed confirm that he was caught hacking into NASA's Johnson's Space Center, the building which over the years many have considered as NASA's Ufo airbrushing lab.
With continued support online Mr Mckinnons story gained public awareness and the exposure became an embarrassing situation for the US government.
