Gary McKinnon

We accuse this British citizen of having committed a crime in or against America.

Uh, we have this evidence and it's a crime over here and it's a crime over there.

So we should have him in America to stand trial.

Totally fair, totally reasonable.

Um, but then, I mean, this is the weird thing in law, computer crime is a weird thing.

It's a gray area cause it's not physical.

Where, where's your bum at the seat when you commit the crime?

There's lots of like questions that are legally intransigent, you know, like how do you place this?

Um, so what happened was I was arrested in 2002.

And in March, and then I was re-questioned by the NHTCU, went to visit the DOJ in August.

Then they came back, then they re-interviewed me in November, 2002.

And that's when their tone had changed, very serious.

You're accused of harming military systems, could be years in prison.

And that's when, you know, things really got serious for me.

I thought, my God, this is just blown out of all proportion.

Um, but we were protected by the extradition law because there had to be evidence of malintent, et cetera.

And I, I, when I did my police interview, I completely admitted to what I'd done because it was all on the hard drive.

You know, I said, yeah, it's all on the hard drive.

I went there and I got this document, went to another place, got other documents.

So I was open about it, thinking, oh, six months, like they told me, I'll be fine.