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I'M LYING
"VERIZON DENIES GIVING CALL RECORDS TO NSA"
Published: May 16, 2006
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon (NYSE:VZ) Communications said Tuesday that it did not give the U.S. National Security Agency local or other customer records or call data, and was not asked to do so.
"Contrary to the media reports, Verizon was not asked by NSA to provide, nor did Verizon provide, customer phone records from any of these businesses (wireline telephone, wireless and directory publishing), or any call data from those records," the company said in a statement.
USA Today reported last week that BellSouth Corp. , AT&T Inc. , and Verizon had turned over tens of millions of consumers' telephone records to the NSA so it could analyze call patterns to detect terrorist plots.
Verizon said it could not comment on an NSA program that it said President Bush had acknowledged authorizing against al Qaeda and was highly-classified.
"Verizon cannot and will not confirm or deny whether it has any relationship to it," the company said in a statement.