This shows a complete lack of insight into how the phone company interacts with your phone, what they can and what they can't do. The reason the guards target the phones is precisely because the phone company doesn't have access to this data. They can at best read SMS, but not whatsapp, telegram and a ton of other popular messaging apps which use strong crypto and bypass the telco in case of WiFi connectivity.

Telco's see plenty, but your phone sees a whole lot more.

In legal parlance, we call that a “court-ordered warrant.”

The US has had a medley of surveillance scandals over the years, but none of them involved anything nearly as drastic as what’s shown in the video.

Edit: drastic for regular American citizens and residents. America’s foreign surveillance is inexcusable.