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Hacker 'Guccifer,' Who Uncovered Clinton's Private Emails, To Be Extradited To US (rt.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the compulsive-need-to-be-famous dept.

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.

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  1. Shame on Romania by manu0601 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Shame on Romania for extradition of one of their own nationals. He should have been prosecuted in his home country.

  2. The elite few might send us a copy.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Where they will be held without bond for the duration of the current U.S. Presidential election cycle. They'll get to enjoy a theatrical re-release of the movie "13 Hours of Benghazi" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4172430/) but of course heavily redacted to show that nobody in the State Department/Executive branch was to blame for the death of Chris Stevens or any of the operators that responded to the tragedy.. it was just a local protest about the release of a movie "The Innocence of Muslims"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack

  3. Re:Not on US Soil by MrDoh! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This might just be due diligence by the FBI to get everything lined up before going after Hillary. And/or they're after the emails she's scrubbed if this guy has copies.

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  4. He's here to make a deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To avoid the most severe penalties he will deliver up those emails that Hillary conveniently deleted. That way the NSA doesn't have to burn any political bridges by coughing them up. We know he has some of them since he published screenshots of some classified emails that never quite made it to the FBI. Sucks to be caught between two government agencies trying not to look bad...