Then they should apologize to Apple for tarnishing their name all over the media for "helping terrorists" to the point where the front-runner of a party, who has a chance of becoming the next president, called for their boycott because of it - when all along it was FBI's dumb mistake for not getting that data and Apple has no responsibility to fix FBI's stupidity. I think it's only fair.

That's assuming it wasn't all staged to take advantage of this situation to pass some backdoor law or set a precedent here, in which case, I don't expect the FBI to retract anything, because then their goal isn't to unlock this phone, but to set that precedent.