http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/17/verizon-we-didnt-do-it/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/17/verizon-we-didnt-do-it/#comment-8673 BellSouth, Verizon not involved in NSA phone record database - Homeland Stupidity Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:57:27 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/17/verizon-we-didnt-do-it/#comment-8673 [...] Verizon’s denial of participation did not extend to MCI. “It was not cross-city calls. It was not mom-and-pop calls,” said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who receives briefings as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee. “It was long-distance. It was targeted on (geographic) areas of interest, places to which calls were believed to have come from al-Qaeda affiliates and from which calls were made to al-Qaeda affiliates.” — Ibid. [...] [...] Verizon’s denial of participation did not extend to MCI. “It was not cross-city calls. It was not mom-and-pop calls,” said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who receives briefings as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee. “It was long-distance. It was targeted on (geographic) areas of interest, places to which calls were believed to have come from al-Qaeda affiliates and from which calls were made to al-Qaeda affiliates.” — Ibid. [...]

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