Bargain; release the video of "seal team 6’s " assault on Osama Bin ladens compound. If money is what everyone thinks this is about the taxpayers who financed the over decade long hunt for that man that cost taxpayers over $6 trillion to accomplish then technically the government does not have the right to keep that classified because if this were a democracy the citizens of the United States of America own that video and should be able to chose to see it or not. What is the difference of Apple trying to protect its own and its customers “constituencies” privacy. Hold the people accountable that foot the bill for its own clandestine “proprietary” operation stockholders and customers have the right to know about what they are purchasing “freedom of information act” the government wants apple to do something “stated in they’re business model that they are working for there customers protection”. if the government wants to know whats on farooks private phone give it to Apple and let them decide if there is actionable intelligence and let the FBI take there word that a crime had been committed. Just like the Citizens that payed for the manhunt was just supposed to take the word of the government that Osama Bin laden is dead without any proof. In fact proof is what “we” US Citizens paid for monetarily and with human life that Citizens got what they paid for! NO BODY, NO PICTURES and no VIDEO that there clearly is? let me borrow your power of attorney I promise i won’t do anything with it I just want it for a month. We must become smarter more aware as a people and stop giving away the rights our founding fathers devoted their lives too. Because i feel less safe on an airplane now than I did before 9/11. Honestly does giving TSA the right to infringe on our civil liberties make anyone feel safer today on a plane than it did in the year 2000?

Now that I’m a low information American watching more of that libtard mainstream media versus clearly unbiased, fair and balanced Fox News telling us all that stuff that’s suppressed by us lefties, I find it curious left unsaid by Bill and Jesse is the fact Apple opposes this, in part, because this isn’t some isolated request regarding scary terrorism which Fox loves to fear-monger. The government has a long queue of many requests asking Apple to unlock iPhones for them that have nothing to do with scary terrorism.

What could go wrong if Apple becomes the government’s lap dog Bill and Jesse want? 👍

Hmm. Wonder if Watters has an iPhone? Well, it doesn’t really have to be an iPhone, specifically.

But I really bet Watters would be singing a different tune if HIS phone were remotely unlocked, allowing the FBI and CIA and Homeland Security to gain access to all his “private” information.

scooter: “I have no doubt that had the phone belonged to a white male terrorist like Tim McVeigh or Ammon Bundy, the people would not support the FBI’s position. Only because they were Muslim terrorists, Americans are willing to toss protections of their freedom and privacy into the sewer.”

This. Exactly.

Along that line, I don’t believe Fox has had anything to say yet about Jason Dalton, the Kalamazoo, MI Uber driver who shot 8 people randomly in a rampage this past Saturday, killing 6 (http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/23/us/kalamazoo-michigan-shootings/)

Then again, Dalton is a legal gun owner, and white. If he were black and/or had any ISIS connections, Faux sNooze would be on that 24/7 — of course, they could simply still be looking for a way to blame President Obama for his actions.

Damn, rightwingnuts — you’ve got to make up your mind on how you feel about gov’t surveillance . . . when Dumbya Bush wiretapped US citizens without warrants and people complained, your response was to shout, “if ya got nothin’ to hide, ya shouldn’t be worried!”

Then, when President Obama continued to wiretap US citizens (but actually complying with FISA this time), you did a complete 180: “what’s with this gov’t overreach?! Obama’s a wannabe dictator!!”

Now you’ve done a complete 360 — and WANT the gov’t to get into this phone . . . all the while making sure to smear those who disagree with you as “being more concerned with privacy than patriotism.” The irony . . .

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This has to be the first time Fox has promoted patriotism over profits. It certainly didn’t happen when American companies shipped jobs overseas to turn a higher profit. Fox didn’t say a word about profits over patriotism then. And It didn’t happen during the Iraq war when contractors endangered our soldiers and gouged taxpayers by cutting corners or overcharging for their services during a time of war. Nope no patriotism involved in those issues.

Apple has complied with the gov in the past regarding cell phone access , but what the government wants now is just a little too much and could damage the company and its security. I encourage you all to read about this issue, because Fox is not going to give you any real information about this when they can use this story for propaganda instead.

That’s what got me about this segment. It’s a serious subject and deserved serious coverage.

Let me just add Bill pretending to do serious analysis (or at least some serious smearing) with Watters based upon a man on the street gotcha set of interviews heavily laced with humorous movie and TV clips is absurd. If O’Reilly wasn’t acting like a smug little hemorrhoid, I’d mistake it for an SNL skit.

Let me answer Bill’s and Jesse’s slam-dunk question ‘Does a dead terrorist have a right to privacy’ with my own question. Do all American citizens, living or deceased, have Constitutional protections of a right to privacy and due process?

The pair of clearly unbiased ace Fox News journalists need to realize them or the FBI calling Syed Farook a “terrorist” doesn’t strip him of his American citizenship. So who’s really un-American here? Maybe Bill and Jesse who have no respect for our rights of citizenship.

Typical of Fox News, Bill and Jesse are leaving key facts out to demagogue the issue. Not mentioned is the judge’s order was in a closed private hearing where Apple had no legal representation to state their case.

If Watters had grabbed me on the street, him and Bill would have been raging on air how some terrorist hugging lefty wants Americans to be slaughtered by ISIS. But our founding fathers knew damn well all sorts of violent criminals might not be caught because America isn’t a place where the government can search our property without due process and a valid warrant. It’s the real ‘cost of freedom’ (yes, I’m mocking Fox’s Saturday biz block).

Let Apple have their day in court. If the judge favors the government, as I expect (and hope) they will, justice will really be served. We’ll get whatever information is on the phone and I won’t have to worry about the government kicking down my front door without a warrant because Bill and Jesse said they should.

This story has so many questions that I can’t even…

1)Why is this an issue now, so long after the shooting?

2) If the changed password isn’t a screw-up, why’d they do it?

http://recode.net/2016/02/21/fbi-says-resetting-san-bernardino-shooters-apple-id-password-not-a-screwup/

3) I could understand if this was something hardware related where they need special technology only Apple has, but if they just need to get into his phone, even Fox News has pointed out that there’s kits for that. It’s one of the few ways you can hack a phone.

4) The FBI has access to records, and data extraction technology- Does the phone really need unlocked to use that?

5) What, exactly, are they expecting to find?

6) Apple is usually very compliant- Can I see a video of how they were asked? Maybe there’s a reason they said no this time…

Only a few names in the media are asking any of these questions. Fox News isn’t even trying- It’s just “Big bad, scary people who don’t do what Republicans want!”.

And for the love of CHRIST, Jesse- The 80s are over, and nostalgia only goes so far. De-Flip the collar.

Regarding the Pew poll that shows 51% of Americans agree with the FBI’s position and should unlock the phone – I have no doubt that had the phone belonged to a white male terrorist like Tim McVeigh or Ammon Bundy, the people would not support the FBI’s position. Only because they were Muslim terrorists, Americans are willing to toss protections of their freedom and privacy into the sewer.

For the record, I think Apple should comply with the court order. But it’s disgusting to me that Watters should so cavalierly smear those who disagree as unpatriotic.