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Story: Nasa hacker appeals to Bush for pardon

Posted by: nick (Friday 16 January 2009, 4:34 PM)

Fair Comment

I accept that this is what the USA are saying (and probably they have some fluffy definition for "accessed" in that perhaps they were scanned or pinged and they call that "accessed") but will readers really analyse the story in detail or take on face value? I still have to say that surely within a news story the claims can be questioned/challenged. Will people read your blog (couldn't find item on this story by the way)

If the 73,000 is unbelievable and plain wrong, then what about the alleged damages? Can they be believed? Surely then the story becomes a credibility story on the USA rather than giving credance to US Propaganda.

Question is what negative effect do stories like these have and how much harder does it make it for the Mckinnon defence team in trying to achieve a balanced hearing and getting the truth out when faced with a US propaganda campaign which is willingly propagated?

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