[mwfunk]

I see two ways to interpret what he said, and I'm kind of appalled at both interpretations:

(1) "We can't afford to pay someone every time we need to bypass security, therefore we need the ability to force third parties to do this work for free": um, OK.

-or-

(2) "Bypassing security takes too much time and effort, therefore we need a backdoor": even more horrifying, even though he's repeatedly denied that this is the endgame.

Edit: typo

[orky56]

He doesn't want a "backdoor" just special treatment time and again.

[EdHominem]

It's not an either-or. They want the backdoor so they don't have to ask, and they want a new backdoor created anytime they ask.