From the sound of various blogs, articles, etc., it sounding like the FBI doesn't have anyone who has technical expertise in this area (or if they do, those persons are being kept buried). While the court case is important to the FBI (and very wrong to the public), the technical details of breaking into an iPhone should not have been an issue for them.
I'm starting to think no one is driving the clown car in their technical division.
Well, according to the congressional hearing (posted in another comment thread on this post), the FBI has "engaged all parts of the US government" to try and find a solution and came up with none. Which is funny, because the congressman who was questioning Comey proposed essentially the same thing as this article.
I'm starting to think no one is driving the clown car in their technical division.