Crypto wars redux?

[Roland Perry]

In article <54BEBDA9.7080304 at gmx.co.uk>, Dave Howe <DaveHowe at gmx.co.uk> 
writes
>> And everyone else is probably forgetting that gathering information
>> about who is contacting who, is most of the time just as valuable as
>> what was actually said.
>
>And yet, they already HAVE that (in spades, if the story at
>http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/gchq-intercepted-emails-journalists-ny-times-bbc-guardian-le-monde-reuters-nbc-washington-post
>is anything to go by) but apparently that isn't good enough?

Were those emails encrypted?
-- 
Roland Perry