Re:The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's ph...
by michaelmrose on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:59PM
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A lie by omission is still the lie. If you ever have to tell someone that you didn't tell them the complete truth what you really mean is that you lied to/misled them.
Regarding being dead sorry I was thinking of the child porn case not the shooter my mistake.
> The government stated that they needed apple to break ios in order to nail a creep. This was a lie.
It was not. The specific question was:
"[are you] testifying today that you and/or contractors that you employ could not achieve this without demanding an unwilling partner do it”
The answer was affirmative, and correct for that point in time. It wasn't quite the "whole truth", but it was true. And there are any number of reasons you'd not want an unfinished project to become public.
Also: the government's position was never that "this man would go free" or that they intend "to nail a creep". That man/creep was dead.