With great fanfare, USA Today reported last week that AT&T, Bellsouth, and Verizon were systematically handing over telephone records to the NSA. People were outraged...their private phone calls were being shared with the government. But there`s only one problem.

At least in the case of 2 out of 3 of those companies, the story isn`t true. Bellsouth has come forward and said their investigation turned up "No contact with the NSA and we are confident that we hav turned over no phone records." Oops. So what does USA Today say? They said they contacted Bellsouth a day before the story ran and since the phone company didn`t dispute the story, they took it to mean it was true. Guilty until proven innocent.

Now here comes Verizon. They announced yesterday that they did not provide any call records to the NSA. Strike two on USA Today. Verizon went even further, saying any media reports that suggest they did otherwise were completely false...a total fabrication.

USA Today says they are "investigating." It makes you wonder just what else is printed in the paper that`s made up.

One more thing. Helen Thomas asked Tony Snow at the White House briefing yesterday if it was true that "millions of Americans have been wiretapped?" Just where, dear Helen, has that been alleged?

They're only tapping people calling Iraq and Afghanistan and Iran.. if you seriously need to call over there then who cares

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Originally posted by soseductive:
whether it is said or not or printed or not they ARE doing wiretaps...have been and nothing we can do but talk a fuhckin way...

The fact that this newspaper can`t even print a truthful and factful story is sickening. Sad thing about is, once it`s printed there are people who run with the story and never stop to hear the truth.

I agree, wiretapping has been a fact for alooooong time.....way before Bush.

If you`re not calling a terrorist nation, you shouldn`t worry.

TERRORIST NATION(S)..??? THERE ARE TERRORISTS AND NORMAL PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD.. AND IN EVERY COUNTRY, MANY PEOPLE LIVE WHO COME FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD AND EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN REASON..ONE OF OUR BEST FRIENDS WHO WAS GERMAN,LIVED AND WORKED IN IRAQ FOR YEARS AND SURE HE HAD PHONE CALLS TOO..TRY TO GET A LARGER VIEW BEFORE HATE NATIONS..I LOVE IRELAND AND MY IRISH FRIENDS AND THE COUNTRY AND IT'S CULTURE..AND DON'T LIKE IT WHEN SOME PEOPLE CALL THE WHOLE NATION TERRORIST OR JOKE ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE OF IRA..AND OTHER COUNTRIES ARE NO DIFFERENT,EVEN WHEN THEY'RE LOCATED IN EASTERN PARTS OF THE WORLD..EVERY INCH ON THIS EARTH HAS A STORY WHICH BUILDED UP THE WORLD HISTORY,AND IGNORING THIS DON'T MAKE US MORE IMPORTANT..

Big Brother (GW) is watching us all....

so he'd better get ready to see a middle finger..