Cafferty: Bell South, AT&T, Verizon, deny giving out phone numbers

[walldude]

Oh my god what freakin balls. Now they just deny the whole thing happened. Amazing. Looks like Rove is working frantically in the backround here. By tommorow they will have USA Today looking like Dan Rather...

[benburch]

1. Legally, they HAVE to deny it.

Assuming the numbers were the result of a PATRIOT act request!

[walldude]

5. Guess Rove should have got to them before they had

claimed that they "legally" gave out the numbers. Man, the bullshit just never seems to stop piling up.

[LiviaOlivia]

2. And will "single bullet" Specter

swear in the telco CEO's?

[MSgt213]

3. This is what discovery was made for. If the government doesn't stop

the suits we will find out the truth.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Lets see them say that under oath

before a court or congress

[global1]

6. If They Were Paid By The NSA For The Info.........

how did they reflect this payment in their financials. If they didn't reflect it in their financials and covered it up - I would believe they would have additional problems. Would a CPA please comment on these questions:

Sources Say The NSA Made It Clear That It Was Willing To Pay for the cooperation by the Telcos.

1. Where did the money come from? (the money the NSA paid to the telcos)

2. How much did they pay? (what dollar amount did they pay? (per piece of data? millions?, etc)

And What I Consider The Most Important Question:

3. How was this payment reflected in the telcos financial statements? (some CPA - tell me how if I was the telco I would log this in my financials?)

4. Are the phone companies still providing the NSA with phone records as we debate this? (is this still going on?; are the telcos still providing the NSA with data?; are they still getting paid?; where is this money coming from?)

[global1]

7. What Is USA Today Saying About This New Revelation From The.....

telcos? Has Leslie Cauley the author of that Thursday,May 11, 2006 piece in USA Today commented on this yet? She broke the story.

Reading it again - she said that her sources were "people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA Today".

[riderinthestorm]

8. That's funny. When I called AT&T, and kept insisting I be transferred to

their corporate headquarters legal department, I perpetually got either "No comment!", or "we have complied with any and all legal requests by the government."

Of course the lawyer I finally spoke to was the "no comment" guy. Over and over and over to my questions....

It took me 5 people to finally get transferred to corp HQ legal. Keep working at them guys!

Sweet satisfaction to tell everyone up the line that they had lost me as a corporate customer if they wouldn't tell me if my account was one of those turned over to the government.

Especially the last asshole.