When your system issystems are completely save and trustworth you dowould not need additional encryption. But you can never sayyou be sure that your systems realy are secure.that save? For example if one of your servers gets hacked or if (as makerofthings7-c-lamont pointed out) your backups are compromised your entire security is compromisedbroken. With this in mind I would still
When you use additional cryptosomething like PGP or S/MIME an attacker would have to steal every private key of any user he wants to wiretap. This may mean that the attacker needs to hack a dozen computers instead of one server to get the same amount of information.