Suspect who carried out December shooting at a Pensacola naval base had communicated directly with a suspected Al Qaeda operative, a U.S. official confirms to ABC News.
Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray announced that Pensacola Naval Air Station shooter Mohammed Alshamrani communicated with Al-Qaeda [AQAP] associated based on evidence.
FBI technicians found a solution to unlock the phones, after months of efforts to bypass Apple’s security measures. The Justice Department requested Apple’s assistance in opening the phones, but both Barr and Wray criticized the company for what they described as a total lack of cooperation in the investigation.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the Pentagon is working to secure military members around the country. "We should also be thinking about the cost of all that work, public servants, already swamped with important things to do to protect the American people, toiling through a pandemic and with all the risk and hardship that entails had to spend all that time, just to access evidence that we had court authorized search warrants four months ago," he said.
"We provided every piece of information available to us, including iCloud backups, account information and transactional data for multiple accounts, and we lent continuous and ongoing technical and investigative support to FBI offices in Jacksonville, Pensacola and New York over the months since," the company continues.
A review of the trainees computers and personal devices found that several of the students had possessed"derogatory material.”"Seventeen had social media containing some jihadi or anti-American content," Barr said."However, there was no evidence of any affiliation or involvement with any terrorist activity or group. 15 individuals had had some kind of contact with child pornography."The Pensacola Naval Air Station main gate following a shooting on Dec.
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