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> This claim seems dubious at best. There's no proof that they got access, and it's in their best interest to claim they did.

Wouldn't that be perjury?

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2778264-Apple-Status...

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Sure, but what's a little perjury between government officials: http://www.salon.com/2013/06/12/how_james_clapper_will_get_a...

Lying to an indifferent, disagreeable, and dysfunctional legislature is one thing. Lying directly to a federal judge with contempt power is how one ends up in jail before packing up your suitcase and walking out the courtroom.

I wish it wasn't so easy for you to just pass off what James Clapper did as if it was something of little consequence.

It should have been something of consequence.

Not for something like this.

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