Honestly, its because decision and policy makers don’t have even a fundamental understanding of technology. And their reasoning is “well you made the thing work, why can’t you get into it.”

It was a master stroke by the DOJ/FBI to use this case to try to force Apple to produce a master key to break encryption on all iPhones. The defendants are hated and dead, and no Trump level thinker is going to think past “Aople supports terrorism!!”This is their best shot to defeat encryption once and for all.