[palmer]

It's very simple. A live perp with sufficient evidence of plotting, planning, preparation for terrorism can be detained until they give up everything in their heads including the phone pass code. A dead perp is a poor example of that and makes a bad precedent because it is too rare, therefore not useful in the big picture.

nd the few hundred people SAVED by the info from that particular phone

Speculative at best. These people were known by relatives and neighbors to be potentially threatening. The next lone wolf and wife will have to be turned in by the same, it won't come out of this phone.

[odawg]

“...it won’t come out of this phone.”

How on earth can you claim to know what is on that phone?