Levison did make a comment once that he couldn't give the government what he didn't have, referring to deleted emails. I didn't address that in the article but

Levison did make a comment once that he couldn't give the government what he didn't have, referring to deleted emails. I didn't address that in the article but it is another dimension to this. Being that this is all about something he didn't already have, chances are that archived messages was one of those things. Nevertheless, the means to decrypt those messages still is the critical difference here.