Another telecom firm disputes the NSA data mining story
Fox News is reporting that BellSouth is denying that it provided any data to the NSA as reported in a USA Today story:
BellSouth Corp. is pressing the newspaper USA Today to retract claims in a story asserting that the telecommunications company provided phone records of its customers to the National Security Agency.
The Atlanta-based company’s chief lawyer, Marc Gary, sent a letter Thursday to the publisher of the newspaper, Craig Moon, and general counsel, Thomas Chapple, asking Gannett Co.’s flagship newspaper to retract “false and unsubstantiated statements” made in a May 11 story, BellSouth spokesman Jeff Battcher said.
It’s starting to look even more like the story is just another canary trap, as I mentioned yesterday. Might be interesting to know who the person was that provided the info to the newspaper since it now appears the paper’s getting burned. Or perhaps just jerked around?
