If the FBI had a warrant, if the safe were not opened with a code, they would just force their way in and destroy the safe.
If there was a valid warrant, which they say they verified, they did the correct thing.
They didn’t have a warrant to get the code. They just showed him the warrant to search the safe.
” they did the correct thing.”
Really? You think so? The courts granting a search warrant for an individuals property does not also mean vendors who have had business or sold products to that individual must provide information to aid in their search. A completely separate order is needed to force a company to divulge information to the courts.
Unless said order expressly ordered the safe manufacturer to turn over the combination, then this company did NOT do the right thing, they did the “easy” and cowardly thing.
If the order expressly told them to do so, they had no choice, but if all they had was a general search warrant for someones property, and LE showed up with that warrant, and gave over the access codes based on that, they did not do the “right thing” they did the cowardly thing.