The law is selective anyway - I seem to remember the US refusing to send the pilots over when request to face trail over the friendly fire incidents in the gulf. No coppers persecuted to the Menendez affair, Christ knows how many who never face charges for their violence and thuggery etc.

McKinnon is simply the target of vengeance by a US military caught with it's pants down. They didn't stop 9/11, they didn't stop a mentally ill man hacking into their most secret systems from his mum's bedroom. The person responsible for this fiasco is somewhere in the Pentagon or CIA or Capitol Hill and must be laughing their cock off to see this chap being offered up by a spineless, morally bankrupt British Government.

Asperger's is a difficult illness to diagnose and one I'm familiar with, as a family friend was diagnosed only after he had had a child with similar problems, then reasons for his behaviour in the past became clear. My best mate's brother in law has Asperger's and it's a complex and ill-understood condition and sending some with it into the lion's den of the US justice system is inhumane and shows a lack of compassion and empathy (the US state does kill mentally ill people remember - 60 since 1983). They simply will not understand what is happening, however eloquent and intelligent they might be (and many are).