Politico:
“I certainly don’t think, let me just comment, that Apple’s been flouting the order,” Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym said Monday, according to a transcript obtained by POLITICO. “The order, essentially … pending a final decision, there’s not really — it’s not in a stage that it could be enforced at this point,” Pym said.
Also this sparring back and forth between Apple’s attorney (Boutrous) and the prosecutor in the case (Wilkinson):
“I can’t exaggerate to you how — the perception, some of which I think has been reinforced by the government in their brief, that the company has been somehow doing something wrong,” Boutrous said.
“The government has really only been interested in trying to get into this phone and has done all of its filings and all of its work here in an effort to get into this phone and not saying anything nefarious about Apple,” Wilkison insisted.
Boutrous then cited a point in the government’s brief that says: “Apple’s rhetoric is not only false, but is corrosive of the very institutions that are best able to safeguard our liberty and our rights.”
The Justice Department now has until April 5th to make its next move.
Note: Sheri Pym, as with nearly all Federal Magistrates, is a former Federal prosecutor. Draw your own conclusions.
“We didn’t say what we said. Stop looking at that.”
The Federal government does not respect its own laws, nor the people it is sworn to protect (and the US Constitution) against ALL enemies – foreign and domestic.
Remember when local law enforcement had a motto to protect & serve? Remember when our “intelligence” agencies had a bit of a clue (were in the Cold War back then).