By Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk
Posted on ZDNet News: Jan 16, 2009 7:23:32 AM
Self-confessed NASA hacker Gary McKinnon is appealing to outgoing
president George W Bush to halt McKinnon's extradition from Britain to
the United States.
McKinnon's legal team has requested that UK foreign secretary David
Miliband press for a pardon from Bush, McKinnon's solicitor Karen Todner
announced at a press conference on Thursday. "We have asked David
Miliband to seek consent to ask for a pardon," said Todner.
The solicitor added that McKinnon's defense team had already applied for
a pardon from Bush, but had been rejected on the grounds that McKinnon
was not a US citizen.
McKinnon is also hopeful that president-elect Barack Obama will drop the
extradition after his inauguration on Tuesday 20 January. "A lot of us
have looked at Obama as a new hope," McKinnon told the press conference
in London.
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