The Latest: Apple lawyer says FBI seeks dangerous precedent
[...] he says the FBI, in seeking access to a phone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, is asking a judge to "give them something we don't have" and to create an operating system that does not exist.
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California forcefully asked FBI Director James Comey whether his agency had asked Apple Inc. for the underlying software code to the iPhone before forcing the company to create its own digital workaround.
Issa suggested the FBI hasn't exhausted its own efforts before the government went to court over a phone that federal investigators said is linked to the San Bernardino, California, mass shootings.
The hearing comes amid two significant and conflicting court rulings in New York and California on whether Apple can be forced to help the FBI gain access to locked phones.