Something fishy

Now, at least two of the major telcos accused of providing phone data to the NSA, Verizon and Bellsouth, have denied it in highly parsed, but nevertheless strong, language. Meanwhile, Orin Hatch tells the press that two FISA judges have been informed of the program and, to his knowledge, have not complained, but were not asked to approve it. "That's not their role," said Hatch. (Then, what is their role?) Despite Verizon's and Bellsouth's denials that they were ever approached by NSA, Qwest says it was approached and refused to comply with the NSA request. So, if NSA approached Qwest, why didn't it approach Verizon and Bellsouth? And, why did it take them five days to issue the denials? These stories just don't make sense.

It seems clear to me that the government is up to something, even if USA Today didn't get it exactly right. And, the participants in this are obviously all banding together to smoke screen the public.