Three news organizations are instituting legal proceedings against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in order to know how the law enforcement agency broke into an iPhone used by one of the terrorists involved in the December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.

Vice (print magazine), the Associated Press (nonprofit news agency) and Gannett (who owned national newspaper USA Today), are seeking details on how the FBI cracks the security of the iPhone and about government payments for the breach, based on the report of USA Today.

But the prime federal law enforcement agency of the United States refused to provide that information to the media outlets under the Freedom of Information Act.

In the lawsuit filed by the news organizations, they argue that the public has a right to know how the government spent taxpayer's money to obtain the hacking procedure. The news organizations also gave reasons regarding the existence of a secret flaw in the iPhone could leave the public in danger, CNET reported.

But, Josh Earnest, White House spokesman, stated that the Obama administration along with the FBI were trying to be as transparent as possible, but given the sensitive nature of the information, they have been quite limited in what they can discuss openly.

White House spokesman Earnest also stated that he is confident that the Obama administration will act in accordance with the law.

However, the Justice Department spent more than a month this year in a legal proceedings with Apple Inc. over it could force the tech company to help FBI agents bypass a security feature on the iPhone of the terrorist attack suspect, Syed Rizwan Farook.

Anyway, the terrorist attack in San Bernardino caused by Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 individuals and injured 22 others. As the attack started, Malik claimed allegiance to the Islamic State.

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