Strongly denied.... ?? is that like grave danger? ... j/k..
Ok.. I'll go along to get along... the phone companies strongly denied that they gave the data to HSA / NSA... but, the government somehow has the data..
I'll just leave it at that...
"No such proof was offered by your newspaper because no such contracts exist," stated the letter, portions of which were read by spokesman Jeff Battcher. "You have offered no proof that BellSouth provided massive calling data to the NSA as part of a warrantless program because it simply did not happen."
That's pretty strong. :-)