Someone should let Mr Black know that BellSouth immediately denied the allegations and demanded a retraction from USA Today when they broke the "news". Since then, BellSouth filed suit against USA Today, and lo and behold, USA Today did print a retraction.
Yet Mr Black lumps them in with the rest of them anyway. Nice journalism.
So the NSA is only breaking the law a little bit. The apologists keep forgetting that Bush has -already admitted to domestic eavesdropping and data collection-, which is illegal no matter how much spin the sycophants try to apply.