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Well, of course anyone can point a gun at your newborn baby. But a government agency have to comply with the law, and the law makes certain requirements on officers of companies. The details are complicated, but simplifying, if a company is publicly traded and someone whose title starts with V or C says something in public, then it has to be true.

Three-letter government agencies can't both comply with the law and at the same time force you to break the law.



Didn’t Snowden reveal that government agencies routinely break the law?


Indeed he did. He didn't reveal that they routinely compel random CxOs to do so, though.


... and break the law themselves.




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