WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration told a U.S. magistrate judge on Friday it would be willing to allow Apple to retain possession of and later destroy specialized software it has been ordered to design to help the FBI hack into an encrypted iPhone used by the terrorists in December's mass shootings in San Bernardino, California.
The government made clear that it was open to less intrusive options in a new legal filing intended to blunt public criticism by Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, who said the software would be "too dangerous to create" because it would threaten the digital privacy of millions of iPhone customers worldwide.
WASHINGTON (AP) — American jets struck an Islamic State training camp in rural Libya near the Tunisian border Friday, killing dozens, probably including an operative considered responsible for deadly attacks in Tunisia last year, U.S. and local officials said. The strike did not appear to mark the beginning of a sustained U.S. campaign in Libya but a Pentagon spokesman said "it may not be the last."
The spokesman, Peter Cook, said the U.S. is determined to stop the Islamic State from "gaining traction" in Libya. Cook said the training camp was "relatively new," and that the U.S. has identified similar Islamic State training camps elsewhere in Libya, suggesting potential future strikes in defense of regional and U.S. national security interests.
