This week on CounterSpin: The FBI is demanding that Apple help it access the iPhone of San Bernardino attacker Syed Rizwan Farook. But, says FBI head James Comey, it’s a very narrow request, about just this case, so people should, in his words, “stop saying the world is ending.” Why are privacy and civil rights advocates in fact so alarmed by this case? We’ll hear from Neema Singh Guliani of the ACLU.
Also on the show: There are a lot of things that don’t get much talked about in presidential debates—poverty, the trade deficit, Native Americans…. One thing that does come up fairly reliably is the Iraq War, with candidates explaining their support for the 2003 invasion or how they would’ve handled it differently. The Iraq War has become a story, but how true a story is it? We’ll see how media do in Iraq War 101 with Stephen Zunes, professor of politics and coordinator of Middle Eastern studies at the University of San Francisco.
And, as usual, we take a look back at the week’s press, including superdelegates, the conflicts of a drone defender and Hollywood’s inclusion crisis.
