Apple CEO Tim Cook Slams The FBI As ‘Dishonest’ And 'Rigging' Court Cases

April 30. 2019

Tim Cook

Last week, Apple Corporation CEO, Tim Cook, labeled the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) "dishonest" regarding their conduct in demanding trade secrets and proprietary information, regarding unlocking the company's popular iPhone, which occurred under the Obama administration, who weaponized the agency.

Cook stated of the FBI, "This was not the government's finest hour. I have personally never seen the government apparatus move against a company like it did here in a very dishonest manner. I felt like the naive guy that thought these things didn't happen. They were trying to prevent a discussion or a dialogue or a debate about this. I hope that we've advanced much further than that."

Cook also stated of the FBI/DOJ, "I wish that case went to court, to be honest. It was dropped the day before, and now after the inspector-general reports have come out, our worst fears have been confirmed: that it was a very rigged case to begin with."

I agree, as "dishonest" is a word I have used to describe the FBI. Speaking of that. Notice how Cook also used the word "rigged" which is something I and others who have witnessed the FBI's corrupt conduct have stated of them as well (FBI Hit With Massive Backlash From Americans Labeling Them 'Corrupt' For 'Rigging' Hillary Clinton Investigation Into Mishandling Classified Information And Not Charging Her For Crimes She Committed and Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Obtained Executive Orders From George Bush And Barack Obama To Criminally Steal Copyrights Worth Billions For Madonna And Hollywood While Engaging In Heinous Human Rights Abuses That Left Innocent People Dead).

The FBI goes into courthouses telling judges how to rule. FBI agents have gone into courthouses and passed judges pieces of paper telling them to throw out cases that should have been heard, because of illegal operations the agency criminally runs in the background that they do not want exposed in court. The FBI has deprived innocent people of their rights and property in this manner. It is completely corrupt and criminal. It is a disgrace to the legal system. 

The judge and jury are supposed to reach a verdict, not the FBI, who are plum out of order to be engaging in such sick justice system corruption. It has disgraced the name of the U.S. judiciary all over the world. The Apple cases was one example. The FBI also meddled in the case of CBS News journalist, Sharyl Attkisson.

The FBI/DOJ have been corrupting the civil case Attkisson filed, due to former megalomaniac president, Barack Obama, becoming angry that she exposed crimes he committed. Obama unlawfully began criminally spying on her via illegal wiretaps and computer hacking, among other things. Obama also vindictively damaged her career. Attkisson has filed a civil suit in the matter. However, the FBI/DOJ have corrupted the case through the judges, as witnessed by many who are following the story through social networking and other websites.

I've also seen the FBI rig cases that resulted in innocent people losing their lives. People who are approached by the FBI/DOJ to engage in such misconduct, must realize, when it results in loss of life, under U.S. law the death penalty is on the table for you. You have participated in crimes for which there is no immunity.

The FBI or its parent agency, the DOJ, cannot extend immunity for acts that result in manslaughter or murder. It places Congress in an unenviable position, regarding protecting the nation's name, even if it means giving you the death penalty in courts of law for your crimes to restore public faith. That's what some of you are facing, but the FBI has lied to you regarding immunity.

The fact of the matter is the FBI tried to wage a hostile takeover of Apple, one of the most valuable companies in the world. It is very difficult to run a successful tech company. Yet the FBI, who had no part in Apple's success and did not come up with any of their products, arrogantly thought they should be running the company. The FBI isn't smart enough to do so. If they were that smart they wouldn't be working at the FBI and would be tech billionaires.

The FBI does not have the mental acuity to run Apple or any company with that caliber of assets. The FBI does not understand public tastes or technology. However, suffering from "delusions of grandeur" tried to takeover Apple and demanded to use their iPhones to spy on everybody. Of all the nerve.

The Business Insider wrote regarding their article featuring an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, "The FBI asked Apple to help build a new operating system that could be installed on the phone and disable its security features — something Cook at the time called the 'software equivalent of cancer.'"

Once again, the FBI was trying to takeover Apple and use it to spy on everyone. The FBI constantly does not know when to stop regarding questionable behavior, then gets caught in scandal after scandal, which lands them into trouble in the press and with Congress. One of these days in the not too distant future, the FBI is going to land in permanent trouble with Congress, with employees facing serious criminal charges.

The FBI's conduct in publicly fighting with Apple for access to and control of its signature product, the iPhone, damaged Apple. Millions of people witnessed it. People on social networking and in website feedback sections all over the internet began calling Apple "Big Brother" in reference to the FBI publicly pushing their way into the company like they own the place. Apple had to fight back in court for the survival of their company and brand that the FBI began tarnishing in the eyes of the public (privacy concerns). The FBI is constantly damaging companies they did not build and it is not good for the economy or innovation.

The FBI has been launching hostile takeovers of companies in conduct completely out of place in a democracy. That's known as communism. People who live in communist nations know their respective governments can seize their company for any reason at any time. However, for America, via the FBI, to be engaging in this conduct is inappropriate, as it is supposed to be a democratic country. 

As much as the government states America has free markets, the FBI disagrees and has been engaging in very illegal and aggressive tactics in trying to takeover companies with valuable assets, to do with what they please and it is completely out of order and criminal.

Robert S. Mueller set the tone for rigging cases at the FBI and DOJ which is a very shameful thing. It spits in the face of democracy. No democratic court system should be doing such a disgraceful, dishonest and dishonorable thing.

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller set the tone and agenda at the agency regarding this breed of criminal misconduct in the corporate sector. He also misused FBI funds (millions went missing under him) and resources, such as the $45,000,000 private jet Congress bought for FBI agents to use on emergency terrorism missions. Mueller was slammed in Congress for this misconduct, as FBI agents were left stranded, having to find other slower transport, while he flew around America in luxury to go his unneeded crap speeches, fancying himself a big shot corporate executive running a Fortune 500 company. Mueller repeatedly did these things on the taxpayers dime.

A decade ago Mueller tried to take over Facebook. He approached Mark Zuckerberg at a tech conference and that's when the FBI began using Facebook to spy on Americans and the world. As mentioned above, the FBI also tried to takeover Apple. Further meddling in the corporate sector, the FBI has been criminally stealing intellectual property, such as copyrights and patents, from smaller companies and doing whatever they wish with them, such as passing them on to Lockheed Martin and other companies in the corporate sector, in violation of U.S. and international law (Former FBI Directors Robert Mueller And James Comey Criminally Defrauded Florida Submarine Company Out Of Billions Of Dollars In Copyrights And Patents To Benefit Former Employer Lockheed Martin Then Stonewalled Congress Regarding It).

The FBI has been disgracefully spying in the international community and stealing assets belonging to foreign corporations such as Airbus, then unlawfully passing them on to Boeing. This conduct is damaging the economy, as stolen intellectual property is being devalued by people who did not create or understand them. As such, the rip-offs make less money.

To cover up the crimes, the FBI has been going into courthouses and telling judges how to rule in cases against companies and people who were criminally defrauded out of their assets/intellectual property. Millions of people have seen it and it has completely shaken their faith in the judiciary.

The FBI is constantly getting involved in matters that extend far beyond their congressional mandate. The FBI is only supposed to investigate crimes such as terrorism, mafia cases (racketeering), intellectual property theft, identity theft and bank robbery. However, they have illegally become a spy agency (which is the NSA and CIA's job). For example, the FBI ran up such a huge bill with telephone company, AT&T, in excess of $23,000,000, they couldn't pay it.

In the Bruce Ivins anthrax case, the FBI actually spent tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to, according to them and no one else, come up with a new form of science. They did this to laughter and contempt from the scientific community, as this so-called new form of science the FBI claim they came up with made absolutely no sense. It was completely unscientific and nonsensical. They did all of this to pin a crime on an innocent scientist, Ivins, for something the CIA had done and not him (Journalist: FBI Blamed Ivins For CIA Anthrax).

The FBI is mentally ill to have done this. It caused the global scientific community to publicly brand them inept and crazy. The FBI embarrassed the U.S. government with this behavior. Once again, the FBI got involved in matters that extended far beyond their congressional mandate. Please, show me in writing where Congress instructed the FBI to take tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to become a science agency, while drawing global condemnation from actual scientists, for allegedly coming up with a new form of science that sensible, educated professionals immediately stated makes no sense. It was insane. They did all that madness and tried to con the science world, all to pin a crime on one man who didn't do it. Who in their right mind does something like that (Mueller did).

That is but the tip of the iceberg regarding the insane madness the FBI has been doing behind the scenes and on taxpayer money. They have gotten involved in some very dangerous territory in America and around the world, in things they do not belong in, that Congress did not authorize them to venture into and it is going to breed massive catastrophe and destruction regarding the United States.

Congress needs to pay attention to the signs, as the FBI's conduct is going to take America down due to the criminal misconduct they are engaging in. Prominent individuals and everyday people are openly and repeatedly stating the FBI is corrupt, treacherous, dishonest and engaging in the unlawful habit of rigging justice system cases. That is not a good image to have in the world. It sends a bad message to America and the world regarding the agency and by association and default, the government. They are also committing serious crimes in America and abroad that is costing people their lives.

STORY SOURCE

Tim Cook said Apple's fight with the FBI in 2016 was a 'very rigged case,' and he wishes it went to court

 Apr. 23, 2019, 12:29 PM - In an interview with the visiting Harvard professor Nancy Gibbs at the Time 100 event on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he wished his company's fight with the FBI over the ability to unlock an iPhone had actually gone to court. "Our battle was over whether or not the government could force Apple to create a tool that could put hundreds of millions of people at risk in order to get into a phone — and we said no, the law does not support the government having the authority to do that," Cook told Gibbs.

In December 2015, the FBI obtained an iPhone 5C used by one of the two people behind the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people and injured 22 others. The police killed the two attackers in a shootout, and the FBI was unable to get into the password-protected phone it recovered. The National Security Agency was unable to unlock it, however, so the FBI asked Apple to help build a new operating system that could be installed on the phone and disable its security features — something Cook at the time called the "software equivalent of cancer."

Apple opposed the request, citing the security and privacy risks it would pose to other customers, and a hearing was scheduled for March 22.  But just one day before the scheduled hearing, the government said it found a third party that could help unlock the iPhone, and it delayed the hearing. The FBI formally withdrew its request to Apple one week later.

"I wish that case went to court, to be honest," Cook said on Tuesday. "It was dropped the day before, and now after the inspector-general reports have come out, our worst fears have been confirmed: that it was a very rigged case to begin with." The report Cook alluded to, published by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General in March 2018, found that "there were misunderstandings and incorrect assumptions" among people working on the case at the FBI and that Apple's involvement wasn't actually necessary in the first place...

https://www.businessinsider.com

Apple CEO Tim Cook says FBI’s 2016 case about San Bernadino shooter’s locked iPhone was ‘very rigged’

Published Tue, Apr 23 2019 • 4:36 PM EDT - Apple CEO Tim Cook said the 2016 case between Apple and the FBI over the San Bernardino iPhone would’ve produced more information if it had gone to trial. Cook said that the FBI acted in a “very dishonest manner” and that the case was “very rigged.”

The case was dropped after the Department of Justice was able to access the iPhone just ahead of a scheduled trial. Apple CEO Tim Cook said it’s unfortunate the FBI’s case to force the company to provide data from a terrorist’s iPhone in 2016 didn’t go to trial because that way the public could have seen the truth.

Speaking on Tuesday at a Time Magazine conference in New York, Cook was referring to the case of the San Bernadino shooter, Syed Farook, who killed 14 people and injured 22 others at the Inland Regional Center. Apple publicly opposed the FBI when it asked for access to data Farook’s work phone, saying that what law enforcement was requesting would be a “master key” capable of opening millions of iPhones.

The case was dropped after the Department of Justice was able to access the iPhone days before an expected trial. The company or person who was eventually able to crack the iPhone’s security has not been made public. “Now, after the inspector general reports have come out, our worst fears have been confirmed — that it was a very rigged case to begin with,” Cook said on Tuesday. “So I think this was not the government’s finest hour. I have personally never seen the government apparatus move against a company like it did here in a very dishonest manner.”...

https://www.cnbc.com

Person of the Year 2010

Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 - On the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was leading a meeting in the Aquarium, one of Facebook's conference rooms, so named because it's in the middle of a huge work space and has glass walls on three sides so everybody can see in. Conference rooms are a big deal at Facebook because they're the only places anybody has any privacy at all, even the bare minimum of privacy the Aquarium gets you. Otherwise the space is open plan: no cubicles, no offices, no walls, just a rolling tundra of office furniture. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, who used to be Lawrence Summers' chief of staff at the Treasury Department, doesn't have an office. Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and co-founder and presiding visionary, doesn't have an office...

The door opened, and a distinguished-looking gray-haired man burst in — it's the only way to describe his entrance — trailed by a couple of deputies. He was both the oldest person in the room by 20 years and the only one wearing a suit. He was in the building, he explained with the delighted air of a man about to secure ironclad bragging rights forever, and he just had to stop in and introduce himself to Zuckerberg: Robert Mueller, director of the FBI, pleased to meet you.

They shook hands and chatted about nothing for a couple of minutes, and then Mueller left. There was a giddy silence while everybody just looked at one another as if to say, What the hell just happened?...

http://content.time.com

Zuckerberg says Facebook is working with special counsel Mueller in probe

Published Tue, Apr 10 2018 • 3:50 PM EDT Updated Wed, Apr 11 2018 • 7:01 AM EDT - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Tuesday that the company has been working with special counsel Robert Mueller. Zuckerberg clarified he had not personally been interviewed but others within the company had been.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified to a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday that Facebook is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. “I know we are working with them,” Zuckerberg said...