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Eric Holder at Senate Judiciary Committee. AP Photo.
Eric Holder is very likely to be confirmed on Monday as Attorney General by the full U.S. Senate after yesterday gaining approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee by a 17-2 vote. He will be the first African American to head the Department of Justice in U.S. history. Holder will be the top legal official responsible for dealing with a variety of complex legal issues that confront the Obama administration. He will have to hit the ground running when he starts his new job due to a highly unusual request from the Mayor of London. On January 26, Mayor Boris Johnson publicly requested President Obama drop all charges by the Department of Justice against a British computer hacker seeking UFO files.
In 2002, Gary McKinnon was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for hacking into a series of computers in the Pentagon, NASA, and other sensitive military locations. McKinnon claimed he was seeking information on UFOs and says he found files dealing with “non-terrestrial officers” and “fleet-to-fleet transfers” involving ships not on any U.S. Navy registry. Not impressed by McKinnon's internet snooping for UFOs or alleged discoveries of classified information concerning non-terrestrial affairs, the U.S. Department of Justice began extradition proceedings. After a series of unsuccessful legal appeals McKinnon stands on the verge of being extradited to the U.S.
During his seven year battle against extradition, McKinnon gained increasing public sympathy in Britain. Mayor Boris Johnson wrote on behalf of his infamous London constituent in a manner that must have seemed manna from Heaven for the increasingly anxious McKinnon. Mayor Johnson demonstrated his intent clearly enough with his article’s title: “Gary McKinnon believes in little green men – but it doesn't make him a terrorist.”
After first congratulating President Obama on his stunning inauguration ceremony and overturning a number of diplomatic faux pas of the Bush administration policies, Johnson went on to describe the charges against McKinnon as “one more thing in his diplomatic in-tray.” In colorful terms, Johnson described the charges as a form of dementia orchestrated from neo-conservatives embedded in the Department of Justice:
There is one last piece of neocon lunacy that needs to be addressed, and Mr Obama could sort it out at the stroke of a pen. In a legal nightmare that has lasted seven years, and cost untold millions to taxpayers both here and in America, the US Justice Department is persisting in its demented quest to extradite 43-year-old Londoner, Gary McKinnon.
Johnson’s main rationale is that many believe that what McKinnon did was understandable enough given the common belief of a U.S. conspiracy to hide the truth about UFOs.
Mr McKinnon believes in UFOs, and he is one of the large number of people who think that there is a gigantic conspiracy to conceal their existence from the rest of us, and that this conspiracy is organised by the US government.
Video: Gary McKinnon interview on hacking into NASA/Pentagon
In resolving the diplomatic dilemma confronting the Justice Department over the McKinnon case, Attorney General Holder might be advised to consult with fellow cabinet member, Hillary Clinton over at the Department of State. Holder will soon discover that the idea of a conspiracy to withhold the truth about UFOs is not just a bizarre belief held by many on the other side of the Atlantic. While McKinnon is prepared to plead guilty to escape extradition, many on both sides of the Atlantic have great sympathy for his hacking efforts to uncover the truth about UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
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