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I completely agree. In fact there is already a mechanism for doing what they want done, generally. They get a search warrant, they get a judge to compel a suspect to unlock his phone, refusal results in jail time for contempt of court. There is prior law for all of that. Nobody seems to care that we are talking about doing the search without the judiciary. This is all purely for fishing. Either fishing or they believe that there are all these real life episodes of 24 being played out, which isn't true.


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