UK - Gary McKinnon Case

UK - Gary McKinnon #Hacker -- Gary Mckinnon beat US extradition + 60 yrs>> http://goo.gl/DqHqDy  - humanitarian grounds - rest on hacking general, East Africa -- accused of hacking into 97 US military & NASA computers / deleted critical files / 24hr shut-down of 2,000 computer network - deleted weapons logs - rendered 200 PCs inoperable - paralysed munitions supply delivery US Atlantic Fleet! / Data + p/words -- "Your security is crap" message left for authorities ... LOL -- free for 3yrs ... then subject to bail ... involving daily sign-in @ police station >> 2012 Home Secretary Theresa May - extradition blocked HR ground - DPP, Keir Starmer no 2 pros in UK b/c evidence in USA UK govt easy on hacker that blocked weapons delivery ... but holding a publisher - #Assange - prisoner w/out charge 4yrs. Why? SRC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon COMMENT The McKinnon matter was mentioned generally in an article on hacking. Curious.  Checked it out. McKinnon was free for 3 years, until he became subject to bail conditions in 2005 (daily sign-on at local police station) and then got off on humanitarian grounds (which would probably cover every single accused on the planet, if you think about it) and the matter against him did not proceed in the UK because the evidence was in the US! Not that I want to see McKinnon in a US prison, but I'm curious how this works and why the vast discrepancy between the handling of a hacker case that involved tampering with weapons delivery, compared to the case against a publisher -- Assange -- who is undoubtedly a political prisoner and has been for 4 years at great cost to the UK. Something is wrong here -- and what a pack of slimy, corrupt hypocrites.