Harvard Law professor & former Obama special assistant dismisses FBI’s claims – “the law is clear”<div class="feat-image">
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford and former special assistant to President Obama has written a <a href="
https://backchannel.com/the-law-is-clear-the-fbi-cannot-make-apple-rewrite-its-os-9ae60c3bbc7b#.av277m8s7" target="_blank">blog post[/url] setting out the reason why she believes it is legally impossible for the FBI to <a href="
http://9to5mac.com/tag/fbi/" target="_blank">win its case[/url]. The piece is entitled ‘</span><span class="s1">The Law is Clear: The FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite its OS.’</span></p>
<p class="p1">While the FBI is relying on an extremely broad interpretation of the All Writs Act, Crawford points out that it is an accepted principle that specific laws take precedence over more general ones – and there is a specific law which outlaws what the FBI is asking for …</p>
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Harvard Law professor & former Obama special assistant dismisses FBI’s claims – “the law is clear”
