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USA Today Backs Off Phone Record Story

Frank Ahrens writes in The Washington Post:

USA Today has backed off some elements of a blockbuster May 11 story in which it reported that several telecommunication companies were handing over customer phone call records to the National Security Agency.

The May article named AT&T, Verizon Communications Corp. and BellSouth Corp. as cooperating with the NSA in compiling an unprecedented database of domestic phone call records. Though the NSA was not listening to calls, the spy agency was scouring the phone records to search for ties to terrorism, the paper said.

posted by Fergie @ 6/30/2006 11:28:00 AM