FBI director admits under oath that iPhone case would set a precedent; public & Republican candidates still on FBI side
FBI director James Comey – who had previously claimed that “the San Bernardino litigation isn’t about trying to set a precedent” – has now admitted that it would. The Guardian reports that Comey made the admission when testifying under oath yesterday to a Congress committee.
The ultimate outcome of the Apple-FBI showdown is likely to “guide how other courts handle similar requests”, James Comey told a congressional intelligence panel on Thursday, a softening of his flat insistence on Sunday that the FBI was not attempting to “set a precedent”.
Asked if it was true that police departments around the country also wanted to gain access to locked iPhones, he agreed that it was …
