No! You don't lie and retract. You lie and keep lying.
Posted on 06/30/2006 8:18:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
Edited on 06/30/2006 8:35:05 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- USA Today acknowledged in a "note to our readers" Friday that it could not establish that BellSouth or Verizon contracted with the National Security Agency to provide it with customer calling records, as it previously reported.
But spokesman Steve Anderson said "this is an important story that holds up well. At the heart of our report is the fact that NSA is collecting phone call records of millions of Americans."
"What we address in the editors' note," he said, "deals with the fact that we originally reported that the telephone companies were working under contract with the NSA. We've concluded that we cannot establish that BellSouth or Verizon entered into a contract with the NSA to provide the bulk calling records."
In an accompanying story, the newspaper reported Friday that lawmakers on House and Senate intelligence committees have said that while the NSA has amassed a huge database calling records, cooperation with the NSA by telephone companies was not as extensive USA Today initially reported on May 11.
USA Today at that time reported that, according to its sources, AT&T Inc., BellSouth Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. all agreed to provide the agency with domestic call records. The newspaper said Friday that Verizon and BellSouth deny they contracted to provide the NSA with records of their customers' phone calls. AT&T has neither confirmed nor denied the newspaper's report.
Some lawmakers briefed on the program said NSA has a database of domestic calls that includes numbers called and the length of conversations, but not what was said. Five members of the intelligence committees said they'd been told by intelligence officials that AT&T, the nation's largest telecommunications company, did cooperate in providing NSA with call records.
Five lawmakers on the intelligence committees said they'd been told that BellSouth did not turn over call records, and three lawmakers said they'd been informed that Verizon did not turn over call records to the NSA.
Lawmakers who support the Bush administration's domestic spying program see the apparent gaps in the database as a problem.
"It's difficult to say you're covering all terrorist activity in the United States if you don't have all the (phone) numbers," Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., told USA Today. "It probably would be better to have records of every telephone company."
In its note to readers, USA Today vowed to "continue to report on the contents and scope of the database as part of its ongoing coverage of national security and domestic surveillance."
Said Anderson: "There have been no denials that this database exists. Nineteen members of Congress who have been briefed following the May 11 article have confirmed the existence of the database."
USA Today is published by Gannett Co.
Then we have this Dan Blather/Mapes attempted coverup of USA Lies Today re the phone monitoring: "But spokesman Steve Anderson said "this is an important story that holds up well."
To the Admin Moderator, I put this in breaking news, because only on Free Republic will it get focused as breaking news instead of buried or ignored by the MSM
USA Today rarely has a scoop. Guess we can see why.
"this is an important story that holds up well."
Isn't that what Dan Rather said about his story?
But spokesman Steve Anderson said, "It's fake but accurate".
The MSM doing all the legwork for the Terrorists. Maybe they'll publish all the numbers that were tracked so that the terrorists can cross reference with their own phones to see if the government is on to them.
They know this was part of the ongoing terrorist tracking strategy. Why the hell don't they just shut up about it? They are doing the investigation that the terrorists can't do for themselves.
I shudder to think of what would have happened to our country if our media were this disloyal in WWII.
No! You don't lie and retract. You lie and keep lying.
I see they are timely in their reporting errors........../sarcasm
Did they post that "note to the readers" in the headline section of the front page like they did the original story?
Somehow, I doubt it.
USA Today is worthless even as toilet paper.
Vying for the dihonor of having printed the most lies destined to harm the national security of this country.
USA Lies Today or Yesterday is truly a poor excuse for a so called successful fishwrap.
Blather said something like that.
A freeper labled it "Fake but accurate!"
Fake but accurate.
USA Today/Yesterday lies and innocents die.
Yes, the old "Seriousness of the charges" bs.
what a surprise the democrats and the lamestream media are lying
they do not "tap" every phone
they have the phone records which is like your bill
it is a list of the numbers you called and that called you, they then cross reference the numbers you have called and have called you to see if anything matches the list of suspected terorist numbers
if anything matches then they get a warrant to tap the phone and listen.
by the way read your phone bill for your home phone or cell phone you should have no expectations of privacy
because anytime you are using a cordless phone or cell phone you are transmitting via radio waves and ANYBODY can recieve them....
"But spokesman Steve Anderson said "this is an important story that holds up well. At the heart of our report is the fact that NSA is collecting phone call records of millions of Americans."
Fake but accurate.
Let's see. USA Today is owned by Gannett.
So to borrow a moonbat mantra:
GANNETT LIED, SECRECY DIED
"America isn't perfect but we do a hell of a lot of good in the world...
The arrogance of the old media in publishing the details of top-secret programs for our enemies to read..."
"According to Mary Mapes, 'they' can print/broadcast anything they want and it's up to the reader to prove them wrong."
Then some a$$holes in congress and the Clintoon want to provide a shield to protect these scumbags whenever they publish their lies as news or violate our Secrecy Laws.
Yes, they are admitted liars, but their lies/er story was important.
Gee, USA Today, you should have made a couple of phone calls...
Yes like all of the lying MSMers, they are really "timely" re admitting their lies uh errors.
"Did they post that "note to the readers" in the headline section of the front page like they did the original story?
Somehow, I doubt it."
I have no idea.
I refuse to have this lying rag delivered to my motel room. It is not free and usually I end up with some small reduction per day by refusing it.
"Vying for the dishonor of having printed the most lies destined to harm the national security of this country."
The NY Slimes with its marxist homosexuals in charge and drive by shooting article is probably #1. Then, there is a cluster you know what re number 2.
Well here we go again...
The MSM should be breaking into every show pointing out this lie the same way they did when they swore it was the truth.
is now an established form of legit journalism?
is now an established form of legit journalism?
Exactly re our bills.
Their original story was loaded with lies and spins, and the response by their spokes mouth is one of spins and again what many would call lies.
For decades the MSM has been working behind the scenes to discredit and harm America.
Their hatred of GW is so insane, they are now out in the open like rabid pit bulls.
"Gee, USA Today, you should have made a couple of phone calls...'
The lying maggots who work for USA Lies Today/Yesterday and the other MSM are incapable of doing any basic reporting like you suggested re a few phonecalls.
One of their Marxist Hate America Homosexual Lunatic pushes its hate America bs or something from Kos as news.
They used to get by with that bs. No longer, before the ink is dry, we often have proved that they are lying with no real investigation.
Gannett stikes again.
"This is one of the saddest articles I have ever read. I guess that:
"Fake but accurate"
is now an established form of legit journalism?"
It has been that way for over 4 decades. They could publish any fake but accurate bs about Republicans, Christians, real Jews and get by with it.
Their corporate culture is based on lying to their customers and their advertisers.
But spokesman Steve Anderson said "this is an important story that holds up well. At the heart of our report is the fact that NSA is collecting phone call records of millions of Americans."
And so are the phone companies. What a bunch of losers.
Gannet struck again and got Zotted by those who know that they lie, spin and print bs instead of real stories.
"No! You don't lie and retract. You lie and keep lying."
"In fact, I'm lying right now about my lying. I'm a pathetic lying liar that is lying down, which belies my point."
Thanks for pointing out Anderson's spinning of reality.
WHAT IF THEY'RE ALL LYING????? Where's the "check and balance" on THEM??
Sen. Pat Roberts told Hugh Hewitt yesterday that about 80% of the original NYT story on the NSA surveillance program was WRONG. Now we know atleast half of the USAToday "story" was WRONG. These a-holes in the press do sloppy reporting, take information as gospel from unnamed sources who may or may not be telling them the truth, and then gleefully run off and collect their Pulitzer Prizes.
Who is the source who told USAToday that BellSouth and Verizon had contracted with the NSA? Why can't we know this information?
Where do BellSouth and Verizon go to get their reputations back? How much money have the already had to spend defending lawsuits filed by angry customers? They should both sue USAToday for every damn penny it is worth. Bankrupt this rag.
USA Lies Today/Yesterday admits that it was probably wrong re the phone companies and NSA, but the story is still valid in spite of being based on lies.
As President Reagan said to a MSM liar years ago, "There you go again!"
Tony, if you have a chance to read this, this might be an interest subject in an up coming press conference.
You are doing a great job, Tony.
fyi
ASA Vet, this might be worth a ping on your list.
I feel that most of these drive shootings by our MSM have no source with the exception of some of the far out left wing web sites.
They create their bs like the Plame/Wilson bs or this story and go national with a lie that it came for an undisclosed source.
There are many left wing senators and congressits and a few repubies who want a new shield law to protect the mediots. Then they can lie or print national secrets and be immune from any reaction like this one.
My tagline sums up where most of these lies come from.
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