Yes, you hit the nail on the head exactly. It's the same kind of intentionally obtuse ultra-narrow definitions that we saw the NSA using when their programs we

Yes, you hit the nail on the head exactly. It's the same kind of intentionally obtuse ultra-narrow definitions that we saw the NSA using when their programs were under pressure. Normal words with colloquial dictionary supported and commonly understood meanings are hijacked and re-defined in secret, such that probes directed at the organization can be defused by confusion over terms or led astray by pursuing the wrong term. This deception also leaves room for clandestine organizations to deceive their own political apparatus if the people above them grow to be too nosy or inconvenient. The best example of this strategem is in Clapper's usage of the word "collected". Complete propaganda, of course. The CIA has been caught redhanded doing the exact same stuff in the past, not to mention the original article's most recent example.