Also if anyone else wrote it, there would be so much savaging of weasel words.

They brag that they don't retain this data, so when governments request historical data they don't have it.

They don't say that they don't provide it for anyone else to retain, so if they are given the to and from to process the message, and provide this to the CIA to retain then all of this security would be useless but would also fulfill all of the claims here.