“The FBI is not that incompetent.”
I’ll take that bet. They not only are that incompetent, they are also as political and diabolical as they ever have been since J. Edgar Hoover, which I realize is your point.
I take this as the FBI trying to turn their incompetence “lemons” into “lemonade”. The f’ed this up and then decided to make it about Apple, not their incompetence.
I have had the pleasure of recently being acquainted with some FBI folks, and that is why I believe there is no basis for removing the possibility of incompetence. I believe it was a likely cause. The political hacks decided to try to make hay out of it by lying.
OK. That is possible.
Now... what in the world could be on that government owned phone that would magically enable the FBI to 'solve the case' ?
Are we to believe that there are no video cameras anywhere around a government building ? Are we to believe that there are witnesses who describe a 3rd shooter, and yet the FBI says there is not, unless they can get to what's on the phone ?
Why were the couple not fleeing the area ? They obviously didn't want to die, or they would never have left the building where the shootings took place.