I may be a bit too paranoid, but this seems like a decoy similar to the iMessage decoy earlier this year.
This is a quote from the government so surely there will be multiple -- perhaps even conflicting -- interpretations and definitions of the terms encryption, foiled, and wiretaps.
Doesn't seem too paranoid to me at all. Even a couple years ago, if you had said the NSA was spying on everyone, people would have branded you as a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist. Now we're supposed to believe the things that our government tells us after years and years of lying about hundreds of things at a time? No thanks.
This is a quote from the government so surely there will be multiple -- perhaps even conflicting -- interpretations and definitions of the terms encryption, foiled, and wiretaps.