I think lawdawg is saying there's no reasonable way they can deny participating in a massive spying program without somebody saying it sounds dodgy.

And it is kind of true: "We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers" is the clearest construction I can imagine for denying involvement, but they get called out for it anyway.

That's only because the facts suggest that they are involved. It is very hard to state an obvious lie without sounding dodgy. That's hardly our fault.