FBI Gets Into Pensacola Shooter’s iPhone, Finds an Al-Qaeda Tie
- ‘We received effectively no help from Apple,’ FBI chief says
- Apple says it ‘provided every piece of information available’
The Pensacola Naval Air Station following the shooting in 2019.
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The FBI was able to unlock encrypted iPhones belonging to the shooter in December’s attack at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, and discovered he had contact with a suspected al-Qaeda operative, Attorney General William Barr said Monday.
“The FBI finally succeeded” and found that the phones “definitively established” the shooter’s “substantial ties” to the terrorist organization, Barr said at a news conference with FBI Director Christopher Wray.