Excellent!!!!!!
I don't think USA today has permission from her Dem masters to retract that inaccurate story.
"faults and unsubstantiated statements" ?
Anyone know if the original USA Today story had a byline?
Don't mean to sound like I've been under a rock since the USA Today story broke, but is it true that we will never know if phone number records were ever shared. I heard something about the program, through some line in some legislation, was that the phone companies by law weren't even allowed to talk about the program. That they must deny invovlement in it? I've been too distracted by the immigration debacle to pay attention to this story.
Of course, we reserve the right to sell your name and number to solicitors but we will always stiff-arm the people trying to keep another 9/11 from occurring. We won't even give them the sanitized records with just the numbers.
The fake news writers need to write a big, fat check.
No telling how many customers BellSouth lost because of the story. Retraction, or lawsuit. Maybe both.
Sue them and everyone of the MSM that followed suit but don't let them off the hook that easy. $50 billion should put them under.
BellSouth Seeks Retraction Of USA Today's NSA Story
By DIONNE SEARCEY
May 18, 2006 4:30 p.m.
As lawsuits mount against BellSouth Corp., the phone company faxed a letter to USA Today demanding the newspaper retract "the faults and unsubstantiated statements" outlined in an article naming the company as having provided domestic calling records to the National Security Agency.
The letter sent Thursday to USA Today President and Publisher Craig Moon as well as the general counsel of the newspaper's parent company, Gannett Co., asks for an immediate correction of the article's characterization of BellSouth's relationship to the NSA.
According to BellSouth, the letter quotes phrasing from the May 11 article7 that describes a massive database of domestic calls that BellSouth as well as Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. provided to the NSA.
Earlier this week, BellSouth denied turning over bulk calling records to the NSA, amid uproar over the alleged role of phone companies in U.S. surveillance efforts. The Atlanta-based company also said the agency had never contacted it to provide massive amounts of information about domestic calls.
President Bush has neither confirmed nor denied that such a program exists, but said the NSA's surveillance efforts were legal and focused on terrorist suspects. "We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans," he said in televised remarks.
The publicity fallout against phone companies stemming from the allegations has been harsh with lawmakers on Capitol Hill and at least one member of the Federal Communications Commission calling for answers from the companies and the filing of a handful of lawsuits claiming the companies violated customer privacy.
New York-based Verizon has also denied it was approached by the NSA or "entered into an arrangement to provide the NSA with data from its customers' domestic calls."
AT&T, the largest phone company in the U.S., said it doesn't allow wiretapping without a court order and hasn't given customer information to law-enforcement authorities or government agencies without legal authorization.
Joseph Nacchio, the former chief executive of Qwest Communications International Inc. who is now facing insider-trading charges, confirmed last week that he rejected a request for "access to the private telephone records of Qwest customers" from the National Security Agency in 2001.
... But its double sourced!! /sarc
This is a joke. There is an agreement between US brittan and I think austrailia that they monitor each others citizens and then pass on the info to the respective country.
USA Yesterday has been a lying, spinning and mantra printing whore of the DNC for decades.
They have been caught with their appendages big time with this latest lie.
Hopefully, BellSouth Corp. (BLS) will sue the pubisher of USA Yesterday, the editors and the lying lunatic Marxist who pretended to be a reporter.
For over a decade, when I check into a motel, hotel or inn where the USA Yesterday is supposedly delivered free to the door of our rooms, I have refused the newspaper and asked for a refund. Sometimes I have gotten a refund.
Every traveling Republican should make this a standard practice when checking into any room. If the newspaper is still delivered, bring it to the manager and tell him no "USA Yesterday" because it is a lying fishwrap and dangerous to America.
Is Dan Rather secretly working (under an assumed name) at USA Today? It sure looks like his work.
The media thinks "freedom of the press" means freedom to lie. USA Today owns several papers and TV stations:
http://www.gannett.com/