USA Today: Call Database Not So Broad
- Jun 30, 2006 09:10 AM (AP Online)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- USA Today acknowledged in a "note to our readers"
Friday that it could not establish that BellSouth or Verizon
contracted with the National Security Agency to provide it with
customer calling records, as it previously reported.
But spokesman Steve Anderson said "this is an important story that
holds up well. At the heart of our report is the fact that NSA is
collecting phone call records of millions of Americans."
"What we address in the editors' note," he said, "deals with the fact
that we originally reported that the telephone companies were working
under contract with the NSA. We've concluded that we cannot establish
that BellSouth or Verizon entered into a contract with the NSA to
provide the bulk calling records."
In an accompanying story, the newspaper reported Friday that
lawmakers on House and Senate intelligence committees have said that
while the NSA has amassed a huge database calling records,
cooperation with the NSA by telephone companies was not as extensive
USA Today initially reported on May 11.
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- http://www.quote.com/home/news/story.asp?story=59486747
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