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		</div><p>The policy issues raised in the US Justice Department&#8217;s dispute with Apple over a locked iPhone represent the &#8220;hardest question I&#8217;ve seen in government,&#8221; FBI director James Comey has said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really about who do we want to be as a country and how do we want to govern ourselves,&#8221; Mr Comey told the House Intelligence Committee.</p>
<p>A week ago, a federal magistrate in California directed Apple to help the FBI hack into a phone used by one of the assailants in the December mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.</p>
<p>Apple was expected to file a formal objection on Friday.</p>
<p>Mr Comey reaffirmed what he posted in a blog Sunday night that the Justice Department was not trying to set a precedent by going to court to obtain access to the phone.</p>
<p>Instead, he said: &#8220;It&#8217;s about trying to be competent in trying to investigate something that is an active investigation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Apple&#8217;s chief executive, Tim Cook (pictured), told ABC News that it would be &#8220;bad for America&#8221; if his company complied with the FBI&#8217;s demand and that he was prepared to take the fight to the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>Mr Comey said Apple had been &#8220;very cooperative&#8221; in the months leading up to the court fight and that there have been &#8220;plenty&#8221; of negotiations between the two sides. But at some point, Apple reached a point where it was not willing to do what FBI was asking.</p>
<p>Mr Comey acknowledged that last week&#8217;s order could help guide other courts considering the same issue in the future. But he rejected Apple&#8217;s assertion that the order could create a slippery slope affecting millions of other iPhone users.</p>
<p>He insisted that the code the FBI was asking Apple to create would work only on that one phone and would be retained by Apple.</p>
<p>Apple has argued that doing so would make other iPhones more susceptible to hacking by authorities or criminals in the future.</p>
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