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From Fox News: The FBI investigation into the failed July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has revived the argument over whether Big Tech firms should provide law enforcement with a backdoor method to break their own “unbreakable” encryption.
Weeks before the attempt on Trump’s life, the Secret Service received intelligence warning of an Iranian plot to kill the former president, according to federal law enforcement officials. But while experts are skeptical of any connection between the 20-year-old would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks and Iran, they haven’t been able to access some of his communications 18 days later.
So it remains unclear who he was talking to, if anyone, and what topics would have been discussed.
“I think we’ve experienced a range of returns because some of the applications that he was using online were encrypted in nature,” FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said during a Senate hearing Tuesday under questioning from South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham.
Abbate said the FBI has managed to gain access to some of Crooks’ emails, but some of his encrypted communications are still undecipherable.
Graham asked Abbate, “If he were talking to some foreign power, and I don’t think any foreign power would hire this guy, by the way, so I’m not overly worried, but if this was some great plot by the Iranians, how do we solve this?”
WATCH the exchange below:
Attorney General Merrick Garland said in an NBC News interview that he believes the Iranians are still plotting to kill Trump.
AG MERRICK GARLAND: “We believe that the Iranians are attempting to kill or injure” President Trump.
REMINDER: Harris-Biden have funded the Iranian regime with tens of billions of dollars — even as they remain the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. pic.twitter.com/XoPsUHwqTE
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 31, 2024
Trump assassination attempt: Iran threat prompts questions about gunman’s uncracked encryption https://t.co/vnVmryDI8W
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 31, 2024
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