Deceiving a judge is NOT okay.
I would not be surprised if an investigation gets started and goes up the chain of command to the person or law firm that okayed the lie. That person might get a new residence barring anything else (pun intended).
However, since lying is the new normal starting at the top in Washington and working down thru the various folks supposedly in power, why would we expect anything better by the mere mortals who look to Washington for guidance?
Cook's making progress might mean the department got more pencils so the programmers could write better code. Of course they have to find the code somewhere on the huge computer system at Apple. Oh, the challenges.
Hey, who has the latest version of this Siri code? There are too many patches to be able to follow the logic or lack thereof.