The Trump administration wants to guarantee that law enforcement agencies can break into suspects’ encrypted phones and messages. 'Apple has to help us,' the president said today
for “refus[ing] to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements” and declared, “They will have to step up to the plate and help our great Country, NOW!”Trump told CNBC on Wednesday, shortly after dining
For now, it is clear Barr is leading the charge. As a former telecommunications lawyer who led DOJ during the technological disruptions of the early 1990s, Barr is familiar with law enforcement’s need to intercept communications.that he is “surprised” encryption still stymies law enforcement and is “disturbed … by what he sees as tech companies’ ability to essentially defy court orders.”
And despite the president’s attacks on Apple, the administration is “divided” on encryption, according to a former Trump transition official familiar with the administration’s thinking. And while Trump officials clearly sense an opportunity, some aspects of the current political climate may work in Apple’s favor compared with 2016, despite the anti-tech backlash brewing in D.C.
DOJ’s top national security official recently said he had “never seen” the political climate “so conduciveBut it remains unclear how many lawmakers who don’t sit on the law enforcement–friendly Judiciary panel will back Graham.. Most members of Congress know little about encryption, and some on the Hill see Barr’s Pensacola push as a stunt.
Officials raised the issue of accessing the iPhones “almost as an afterthought,” the aide said. “Their need to get into these two particular devices strikes me [as] more a matter of politics … than it is actually a legitimate investigative need.”
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