Tempora also records without a warrant, unless the warrant is so broad as to be meaningless. So this statement is provably false, unless you deny the existence

Tempora also records without a warrant, unless the warrant is so broad as to be meaningless. So this statement is provably false, unless you deny the existence of Tempora, or interpret listen to or look at to mean a human operator scanning the full text of a message (not necessary for most analysis), or perhaps they have a secret warrant which covers all information all the time. We don't know because the 'oversight' of this activity is done in secret and GCHQ is not accountable in any meaningful sense. It's a deliberately duplicitous and misleading statement, probably directly from the spy agencies, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if this story was fed to the BBC in this form in an attempt to spike other stories based on the Vodafone declaration of direct access.