OK, I get your point, but what about the money ATT, Verizon, Comcast, etc. will be pumping into his opponent?

Guess who won't be receiving much, if any campaign contributions for the next election from ATT? (Or Verizon, or Comcast).

They do know who the boss is and who his boss is. They know who signs their paychecks. They may not tell, but they know.

With internal CS, there is at least a chance that it is supposed to be more than an impenetrable barrier between the customer and someone with authority.

I know the standard of proof. I also know that where human memory is concerned, short of technology we do not yet have, there can not be proof beyond reasonable doubt that he remembers the password now.

Remember when they found out how incredibly unreliable eye witnesses are? Even the mention of a beard will alter every memory in the room, for example.

Sadly agreed.

I am saying adequate evidence short of a confession (such as a verbal refusal rather than a claim to not remember) cannot exist. Human memory is not subject to objective examination.

I once had a baby rattle (when I was a baby). Why is it reasonable to presume I still have it in my possession? I can't prove that I don't since you can't prove a negative.

As for 3b, he told them his best recollection of the password and it didn't unlock the drive. So there we go, where is the proff that he does correctly remember the key but chose not to tell them?

There may be indications and reasons to suspect, but the standard for jailing someone is proof. Where memory is involved, there can never be proof. At least not with today's technology.

They may have it, but I haven't seen any evidence for when he last used the password.

I also haven't seen any evidence that one of the passwords he told them wouldn't have worked but for the police damaging the drive.

The more correct likely characterization is that he remembered the password every day for some unknown length of time then after being traumatized by arrest, jail, and threat of long term incarceration as well as not having access to the computer for some time, he no longer remembers the password.

Sending someone to jail calls for PROOF of wrongdoing. Not supposition.

Been watching the firehose submissions as a kind of hobby for the last few hours while monitoring machine processes and I can assure you, this was not part of anything submitted. Perhaps on a slow news day, but... this post just seems so lame to begin with.

I would suggest they do a drug test.

How stupid do you have to be to pursue a military craft in one of those police egg beaters?

And the three people across the river who fall down as if shot are just a coincidence.