Seeking iPhone Data, Through The Front Door

In the article "Seeking iPhone Data, Through The Front Door", by William J. Bratton and John J. Miller, they talk about how the FBI and Apple are debating over privacy rights. This Article is an opinion article, and was published on February 22, 2016, on The New York Times.
The biggest issue with this article is that there is no concrete evidence to back up any of the claims the authors are making. They claim that Apple, a cell phone company, doesn't want to protect the public from terrorist attacks, only hacking attacks, but offers no quotes from Apple of examples of them doing this, other than refusing to "open a backdoor" for the FBI. This makes the opinion article look very weak, as if they were kids on the playground pointing fingers at each other but eventually forget what the main problem was. The article has a sort of clunky way of moving through it, the authors jump from topic to topic with little to no transition. The article is fairly short, which makes the transitions very important. When I read the article it makes me want to pause and laugh, because I assume that the article was written shortly after finding out about the Apple FBI debate and the authors couldn't stop to take a break and think, they just had to write whatever was on their mind.
With all of this it makes this article, that is supposed to be an opinion paper, feel very weak. With little to no evidence, the way the authors use transitions, and the pure anger you can feel in the words, just make for a weak opinion article. With all of this I can't even being to make my own opinion on the debate, because there is so little evidence to back up their claim, that Apple doesn't care about terrorist attacks.