The war of words between Apple and the federal government relating to the San Bernardino case intensified today with the release of a 43-page document from the Justice Department that alleges, among other things, that Apple has engaged in “false,” “corrosive” rhetoric regarding the case.
Apple’s rhetoric is not only false, but also corrosive of the very institutions that are best able to safeguard our liberty and our rights: the courts, the Fourth Amendment, longstanding precedent and venerable laws, and the democratically elected branches of government.
The documents, made available by CNBC, frame a portrait of Apple misrepresenting the situation through “diversion” to make the conversation about encryption on a grand scale rather than the one device the government is saying it needs access to.
Apple and its amici try to alarm this Court with issues of network security, encryption, back doors, and privacy, invoking larger debates before Congress and in the news media. That is a diversion. Apple desperately wants—desperately needs—this case not to be “about one isolated iPhone.
The government’s document ultimately recommended that the Court deny Apple’s motion and would compel the company “to assist the FBI in unlocking Farook’s iPhone.”
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