USA Today Phone Call Database Story Unraveling

WizBang! links to stories quoting Verizon and BellSouth saying they didn’t give anything to the NSA:

We’ll have to watch over the next few days but this is starting to look like another Rathergate style hatchet job that will fall apart soon enough.

If you watched Tony Snow the other day, he was careful to note, when pressed by Helen Thomas, that the administration had no comment on the USA piece. But if it really does fall apart, don’t expect the moonbats to be saying anything six months from now other than “Bush is listening to tens of millions of Americans’ phone calls.”