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Gary McKinnon: Nick Clegg raises doubts over powers to halt hacker’s extradition
Plans to extradite Gary McKinnon, the Pentagon computer hacker, might not be stopped by the Government after all, Nick Clegg has suggested.
By John Bingham
Published: 9:32AM BST 26 May 2010
The Deputy Prime Minister said during a radio interview that he, the Home Secretary Theresa May nor even David Cameron might not have the power to halt an earlier court decision allowing him to be extradited.
His remarks appear to contrast with comments while in opposition that it was “completely within†the then Home Secretary Alan Johnson’s power to make changes to the law to allow him to be tried in Britain.
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