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BellSouth: We Didn't Turn Over Phone Records

A Reuters newswire article, via CNN/Money, reports that:

BellSouth Corp., the No. 3 U.S. local telephone carrier, denied Monday that it turned over customer telephone records to the National Security Agency (NSA) on a large scale as part of the NSA's call-tracking program to detect terrorist plots.

USA Today reported last week that BellSouth, AT&T Inc., and Verizon Communications had turned over tens of millions of consumers' telephone records to the NSA so it could analyze call patterns.

BellSouth said in a statement Monday that it did not have a contract with the NSA, which is tasked with eavesdropping on foreign communications and protecting U.S. government communications.

posted by Fergie @ 5/15/2006 05:19:00 PM