I think those kind of answers might be exactly what the court is talking about. You don’t have to “remove” something to influence its reach. They’re denying st

I think those kind of answers might be exactly what the court is talking about. You don’t have to “remove” something to influence its reach. They’re denying stuff that doesn’t matter while leaving plenty of room for the kind of behavior that does. To the question that you quoted: asked a question in the past tense, they responded in the present. Asked whether individual people had made requests, they answered whether they currently act on government requests. It reads as such a non-denial denial.