21-04-2016 18:24 via salon.com

The FBI’s dangerous Apple-hack rationalizations: How it’s now stealing a page from the CIA’s torture playbook

In justifying their efforts to get into San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone, the FBI is now using the same logic that the CIA used to justify torturing people who had no information to share.From the start of the FBI's efforts to get into Farook's phone, it was fairly clear there'd be nothing on it. What kind of terrorist, planning to attack his co-workers at a holiday party, would coordinate his planning on his work-issued phone? Plus, Farook went to some lengths to&
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