Wall Street Journal accuses FBI of lying in court [telecom]

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The Wall Street Journal says the government "fibbed", Comey denies it. Sort of.

The U.S. government claimed more than a dozen times in court filings that it could open the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone only with Apple's help. "The undisputed evidence," it asserted two weeks ago, "is that the FBI cannot unlock [Syed Rizwan] Farook's phone without Apple's assistance."

That, we learned Monday, was not true.