The Guardian had the quote here:
He added: "This is not a situation in which we are rifling through the ordinary emails of German citizens or American citizens or French citizens or anybody else. This is not a situation where we simply go into the internet and start searching any way that we want. This is a circumscribed, narrow system, directed at us being able to protect our people and all of it is done with the oversight of the courts."
But by 2015 they were, at Yahoo.
I guess they wanted in on the action, since 500 email accounts had been hacked the year before.