This afternoon on CNN's Situation Room, good ol' Wolf reported to us that Verizon and BellSouth have responded to the allegations that they have entered into contracts with the NSA to supply their database with phone records, insisting that they have done no such thing. This news comes at the same time as news of class-action lawsuits filed in New Jersey and the District of Columbia by customers of the two companies.
So...let's sort out the facts.
1. Verizon and BellSouth deny allegations that they have entered into contracts with the NSA.
2. Not much is coming from AT&T right now.
3. Lots of people are suing the two companies who have responded to the allegations.
My suppositions?
Maybe the two didn't in fact enter into actual contracts...but c'mon, when the NSA tells you to do something, you pretty much better listen. Maybe they only asked once for the records, and haven't yet made an enduring agreement. At the risk of sounding a bit paranoid, AT&T's relative lack of communication on the matter almost seems like an admission of guilt. I'm sure the actual truth of the matter is somewhere in the middle of all of this. It's probably not quite as bad as it looks, but considering the fact that our government likes to do things that it tells us only other countries do when we're not looking, nothing's impossible.
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