* Posts by Mark Henry

2 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2008

McKinnon UFO hack 'looked like cyberterrorist attack'

Mark Henry

A lot of you fail at English

The quote from McKinnon proves two things, which some of you are still ignoring.

1. He uttered a clear threat. He announced his intent to do the maximum possible damage to the U. S. Military, and he indicated that this action was to be a response to a real prior attack, thus allying himself with the perpetrators of that attack. That part is all on the record. It's why the article says the quote already does half the prosecutions work for them - it's that indicative of guilt that the case would be essentially open and shut before any reasonable jury in your country or mine.

2. He is now lying through his teeth about just being there to look for U.F.O.s.

FBI sets out case against anthrax 'rogue scientist'

Mark Henry

It's a standards of proof issue

The evidence presented so far would easily justify a grand jury's bringing initial charges under the U. S. system.

The problem comes because of the definition of reasonable doubt in an actual trial. It's quite reasonable in this particular case to point out that there is enormous political pressure being brought to bear on the FBI to resolve the matter before the coming election, and equally reasonable to point out that this is the third person the F. B. I. has accused, and the circumstantial evidence in the other two accusations also sounded at least fairly plausible as it was presented in the media. It's 'reasonable' in other words to be extra-suspicious of malicious prosecution or gross incompetence. This is blow-back from the administrations overall actions. It is not fair to blame this solely on the F. B. I., as the root causes extend to much of the government, or at least have tendrils throughout the whole Executive branch. If there is call for investigating the F. B. I. , remember that, and urge your legislative and judicial branches not to focus on just firing a few administrators within the bureau and claiming that has fixed the problem.