Maybe, but remember that people used to laugh about the capacities of the FBI (and to some extent the NSA) before the Snowden leaks... Besides, high level stat

Maybe, but remember that people used to laugh about the capacities of the FBI (and to some extent the NSA) before the Snowden leaks... Besides, high level statements like that (that make the main stream media) aren't meant to be factually correct or framed considering all nuances. It's political maneuvering. People don't always mean literally what they say; part of social intelligence is understanding this, and being able to read between the lines. I wish I had learned about this 2 decades ago. I guess us computer types aren't predisposed to have this come natural to us.