I must confess to not having paid much attention to this case but a question occurs to me - what did he discover that warranted such severe action. Or, more to the point,
what did they think he had discovered.
There are more topics of a sensitive nature in the departments he hacked into, than you can shake a stick at. Some that we mere mortals haven't even begun to think about let alone that we've heard about.
It strikes me as odd that the British government has abandoned him to his fate.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...of-Rights.html