Then fire the current FBI help and rehire some that are qualified. They already have the metadata, so the argument about who they were talking too is not on the table. They can get the encrypted files, the government can have as many computers working on it as they wish. This poor us story doesn’t add up.
The FBI likes spinning their wheels or they wouldn’t be doing it. Some political types at the top don’t want to know who the perp was calling.
Give the phone to the NSA and the phone encryption would be cracked.
They didn’t contact NSA—on purpose.
The “War on Terror” is like the “War on Drugs” and the “War on Poverty” and the “War on Cancer”. There are a lot of contractors with influence in DC that want these lucrative “wars” to last forever. They have no interest in ending them.