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Hacker 'Guccifer,' Who Uncovered Clinton's Private Emails, To Be Extradited To US (rt.com)
schwit1 writes: Guccifer, the infamous Romanian hacker who accessed emails of celebrities and top US officials, will be extradited to the United States after losing a case in his home country's top court. Reuters reports that Lehel will come to the US under an 18-month extradition order, following a request made by the US authorities. Details of the extradition have not been made public, however. Marcel Lehel, a 42-year-old hacker better known by his pseudonym "Guccifer," achieved notoriety when he released an email with images of paintings by former President George W. Bush, including a self-portrait in a bathtub. He also hacked and published emails from celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio, Steve Martin and Mariel Hemingway. Perhaps most notably, Lehel was also the first source to uncover Hillary Clinton's improper use of a private email account while she was Secretary of State, which the FBI is investigating as a potential danger to national security.
The powers that be view it like this...
The hardware was on US soil. The alleged crime took place at that physical point. The crime is on US soil.
'Snot my fault but that's their reasoning. It makes sense, at least at first blush it does. People should lock their doors but it's still a crime to enter an unlocked home in my jurisdiction.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
I have been to prison, I have ben in most other countries.
You are wrong, prison in the US is nasty, just one step above death. Life in other countries is as good or better than life in the US.
That has NOT been proven in a court of law yet. Many experts say the laws at the time were poorly written such as to make prosecution very difficult.
Bad judgement, yes. Illegal? Subjective.
Table-ized A.I.
NSA doesn't do warrants - they're spies. The FBI may require warrants but they don't operate outside the USA.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Yes, you are subject to the laws of other countries
Attacking my computer isn't free speech. You want to speak, get a cardboard sign and march around my neighborhood with it and say whatever you want. Don't pretend that breaking into my computer and stealing my email is you freely speaking.
You sound like a burglar blaming his victims for not having better locks on their doors.
The answer to 2 and 3 are "yes" and "yes." For example, this.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
As the head of the department of state, she is the ultimate authority on what is "classified" and what is not, at least for information originating in the state department. While the vast, vast majority of federal workers could not do such a thing without going through a lot of bureaucratic channels, she is one of the very few people who can simply look at something and say "That document is not classified. Remove those headers and send it to me via email", and it is perfectly fine.
Not saying that is definitely what happened here, or that that situation accounts for 100% of the emails in question. But people seem to think she was a lot less powerful than she was. She was one of the top bureaucrats in Washington. Since I don't have access to all the ins and outs of her emails and what exactly they contain, I will be content to let the FBI sort it out and wait for their conclusion.