Um duh! Like they’d be stupid enough to openly admit turning over your personal information to the NSA! To me this is pretty obvious. I believe that they most likely did, however the man standing over my shoulder assures me that I am wrong on this matter though.
Verizon Communications Inc. yesterday denied that its local and mobile phone businesses had turned over customer calling records to the National Security Agency but did not address whether MCI Corp., the long-distance company it bought in January, may have done so.
The comments by Verizon followed a statement from BellSouth Corp. on Monday saying a preliminary investigation found that it had not given such customer information en masse to the NSA. A report last week in USA Today said the two companies and AT&T Inc. had done so to help the government fight terrorism.
USA Today said yesterday that it was confident of its coverage but that it would not dismiss the BellSouth and Verizon statements out of hand and would keep investigating the matter.
Industry analysts said it was possible that the government sought customer information only on long-distance calls. If that were the case, it probably would have approached the major long-distance companies in operation after the Sept. 11 attacks. Those included AT&T Corp., since acquired by SBC, which took the name AT&T Inc.; MCI; Sprint Corp., which has since merged with Nextel Communications Corp. to form Sprint Nextel Corp.; and Qwest Communications International Inc., whose former chairman and chief executive said last week that the company was asked to cooperate with the NSA but declined…. Source: WashtingtonPost.com
[tags]verizon,sbc,nextel,att[/tags]