My belief is that the Feds already had the tools they needed to get the information they needed off the phone, but wanted to use the situation to create a new s

My belief is that the Feds already had the tools they needed to get the information they needed off the phone, but wanted to use the situation to create a new standard of practice as it was too juicy to pass up—never let a horrific event go to waste. Luckily, it didn’t work in the way they hoped or at least to my knowledge, it didn’t.