What a bunch of disgusting dissembling (I'd say outright lying, but you'd never get the truth from them). He is implying that they had these cryptic 109 texts/emails before this event but 'just couldn't decrypt them'. Here's a clue, FBI PROVE IT! Prove you had them before and you tried ANYTHING (instead of just hoovering country wide comms from NSA afterwards). And if you, FBI, actually DID have them beforehand and really knew both ends, etc. why on God's green earth didn't you bring them in for questioning.
Director Comey, I just flat ass don't believe you in anything you say or do.
Exactly. This sort of article is just a cover for the governments incompetence. They'll try to blame the next attack on lack of weak encryption; "if we'd only been able to read every message from every person on the planet!". San Bernardino could have likely been prevented by simply flagging the fact the female terrorist gave a non-existant foreign address. Checking that does not require anything other than checking publicly available address info.