Let’s get this straight, Gazza did it. There’s no second gunman lurking, he wasn’t framed by the mob, nobody forced, threatened or otherwise made him hack into US military computers. He was bored and decided to peek up America’s skirt. 97 times.
Happily though, Gazza, the cheeky little scamp he is, decided that merely hacking into their machines wasn’t enough and also left mocking little messages critiquing US foreign policy, which is a bit like kicking a big, angry bear in the bottom and then sticking your head in its mouth when it doesn’t immediately bite your foot off.
Granted, McKinnon has suffered some misfortune. His case dragged on just long enough to see the US Government royally embarrassed by Chinese hackers, an enemy it had no chance of striking back at. Make no mistake, McKinnon is a statement. However this started, the US now wants to make an example of somebody, to prove it’s not so impotent as the Chinese have made it appear - and now McKinnon has obligingly climbed on the pyre.
