BellSouth Demands Retraction From USA Today on NSA Story

BellSouth is demanding that USA Today retract a story claiming it and two other carriers were under contract to the National Security Agency to surrender call records for a domestic anti-terrorism surveillance program. BellSouth claims the story's assertion that it was under contract to provide massive call record data to the NSA is untrue.

"No such contract exists and we have not provided bulk customer calling records to the NSA," the carrier said in a statement about the story, which appeared in the May 11 issue of USA Today.

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