End-to-end-encryption doesn't protect you if the company holding your keys can be coerced by central authority (eg. Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.). It's been long speculated that many world governments have this capability, and all of it is enabled by the inroads the US government has with domestic tech superpowers.
Believe whatever you want to believe, but I doubt this was a freudian slip. This dude probably saw an internal recon kit that could feasibly have these capabilities, and accidentally got caught bragging about it to the press. Happens very often in the USA as well.
