FBI Director James Comey testifies to the House Judiciary Committee on March 1. (credit: C-Span3) FBI Director James Comey is defending the agency's battle with Apple, saying it is about fighting terrorism and not about setting legal precedent. The director's comments, published Wednesday afternoon in the letters section of the Wall Street Journal, come amid a slew of attacks against the agency for its handling of what is arguably the biggest legal showdown in modern tech history. The verbal assaults on the FBI are coming from the blogosphere, the rank-and-file public, and even the WSJ itself. The arguments essentially boil down to assertions that the FBI lied when stating that it could not open the iPhone used by San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook and that it wanted a court of law to compel Apple's assistance in order to set a legal precedent. Because Congress won't adopt crypto-backdoor legislation or laws…
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