In comments published on Thursday, the head of the National Security Agency made a vague suggestion that the November terrorist attack in Paris was made more possible by encryption.

“Some of the communications … were encrypted,” Adm. Mike Rogers said in an interview with Yahoo News. “We did not generate the insights ahead of time. Clearly, had we known, Paris would not have happened.”

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