Republican senator: Apple is "the company of choice for terrorists"

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is blasting Apple for protecting terrorists after the company refused to cooperate with a court order to unlock one of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhones.

“It’s unfortunate that the great company Apple is becoming the company of choice for terrorists, drug dealers and sexual predators of all sorts,” he said in a statement late Wednesday, joining several other Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail who called on Apple to cooperate.

The FBI wants Apple to assist in bypassing some of the security features on a government-owned iPhone 5c used by Syed Rizwan Farook for his job at the county health department. It says the phone could contain information valuable to its investigation into the San Bernardino, Calif., terror attacks that left 14 people dead last December …. http://thehill.com