This was the same way Amazon, Facebook and Google very loudly denied ever having given any “backdoor” to the NSA:
They did, but were honest in denying that they did, and here is how they hear the sound of one hand clapping:
A backdoor is BY DEFINITION a thing the surveillance target does NOT know about and if the target gives ANY THING to another entity —including the NSA— then the target does in fact KNOW of the existence of that thing, making it IMPOSSIBLE for it to be a BACK door —it’s a FRONT door.
See?
So they did answer honestly when they denied it.
SICK, HUH..?
So:
Ya figger the White House is more honest than Amazon, or less so..?
Or much, much less so ?
Liars lie. That’s what they do...over and over and over.