WikiLeaks cables: US spurned Gary McKinnon plea from Gordon Brown

[oldironside]

"Leaked US embassy cables reveal that Gordon Brown unsuccessfully put his reputation as prime minister on the line in a plea to Washington that the computer hacker Gary McKinnon be allowed to serve any sentence in the UK.

Brown's face-to-face attempt to strike a deal with the US ambassador was spurned by the Obama administration, in a humiliating diplomatic rebuff.

Washington now appears to be just as intransigent with Brown's successor, David Cameron. The Cameron government has failed to announce whether or not it will comply with continued US demands to hand over McKinnon after he hacked into their government computers."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/30/wikileaks-cables-gary-mckinnon-gordon-brown

Ah, that special relationship thing again. It reminds me of Chick Murray's description of his divorce. "Oh, it was very fair. We split the house. She got the inside."

[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. Historically it has not been as one-sided as many Brits fear

In the last ten years or so British politicians and commentators have been more sceptical of the alliance and have a point when they feel things have been recently so one-sided.