What's sensationalized?

  The approaches were analyzed as part of a months-long government 
  discussion about how to deal with the growing use of encryption 
  in which no one but the user can see the information.

Using OUR money, they looked into ways to compromise technology that keeps OUR information private. If you claim you're going to be the most transparent administration, the public ought to hold you to that claim. Without leaks and whistleblowers, and reporting like this, we'd be clueless.