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To: longnshort who wrote (61431)	5/17/2006 7:28:15 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 93284

Another Drive-By Media hit falling apart.. ..yesterday BellSouth said that it gave the National Security Agency no records of phone calls and now.. "Verizon Communications Inc. says it did not give the government records of millions of phone call.., joining... BellSouth in disputing key assertions in a USA Today Drive-By Media hit piece. "The denials leave open the possibility that the NSA requested customer calling data from long-distance companies like AT&T, Sprint and MCI in 2001, but not from companies that were mainly local phone companies, such as Verizon.... "Verizon has not provided customer call data to the NSA, nor had it been asked to do so, the company said..." One of the most glaring and repeated falsehoods in the media reporting "is the assertion that in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, Verizon was approached by NSA and entered into an arrangement to provide the NSA with data from its customer domestic calls." They say, "We didn't do that." Now, the media, though, still holding out hope. Get this next line: "Verizon's denial did not apply to MCI, which Verizon acquired in January [of] this year. In an earlier statement, Verizon said it is in the process of ensuring that its policies are put in place in the former MCI business." Now... "Sources told us that BellSouth and Verizon records are included in the database," said a USA Today spokesman. "We're confident in our coverage of the phone database story, said the spokesman, but we won't summarily dismiss BellSouth's and Verizon's denials without taking a closer look." Why, you arrogant SOB! They're denying it, and you're saying, "Weeeeell, we're confident of our coverage. We're not going to summarily dismiss these denials without taking a closer look." A "closer look" is what you're supposed to do before you publish your rotgut Drive-By hit piece! Now, don't you find it interesting that now they're looking at long-distance carriers who might have supplied the records? Well, if that's the case it's going to blow up this whole notion of domestic spying, isn't it? Because it would be long-distance records that would contain data of incoming and outgoing foreign phone calls from potential Al-Qaeda and terrorist suspects, which is what the administration has insisted the purpose of this program is all about. ..this just borders on irresponsibility. Limbaugh