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>“If I didn’t do that, I ought to be fired, honestly,” Let's take this on face value. He's suggesting POTUS would fire him for not fighting for backdoors, when
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
>“If I didn’t do that, I ought to be fired, honestly,”
Let's take this on face value. He's suggesting POTUS would fire him for not fighting for backdoors, when POTUS has publicly come out against backdoors. So what is going on here?
I suspect Comey is just a fucking idiot. He's one of these old school guys who thinks LE should have an endless war on the citizenship. I suspect we're destined to have this fight every so often, and from a more practical perspective, not every company is Apple or has the financial and political power Apple has. How many others have agreed to the terms Comey demands? Perhaps many.
- newjersey 11y agoI know this sounds very tinfoil hat ish but I wonder whether something like this was the reason why Truecrypt shut down.
- r00fus 11y ago> Let's take this on face value. He's suggesting POTUS would fire him for not fighting for backdoors, when POTUS has publicly come out against backdoors. So what is going on here? Some people (Comey) believe that what is said in public has no value? Or that those same people might instead believe that the POTUS is not their boss...
- snsr 11y ago> I suspect Comey is just a fucking idiot. I'd argue that he's being intentionally deceptive. For example, he testified* that "he's not a good lawyer", when in fact he served as the Deputy Attorney General during the Bush administration. * http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/james-comey-ducks-most-important-question-in-apple-fbi-fight http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/james-comey-ducks-mo...