What’s going on here?

BellSouth said in a statement that it doesn’t contract with the National Security Agency to supply customer calling information.“As a result of media reports that BellSouth provided massive amounts of customer calling information under a contract with the NSA,” it said Monday, “the company conducted an internal review to determine the facts. Based on our review to date, we have confirmed no such contract exists and we have not provided bulk customer calling records to the NSA.” […] USA TODAY first contacted BellSouth five weeks ago in reporting the story on the NSA’s program. The night before the story was published, USA TODAY described the story in detail to BellSouth, and the company did not challenge the newspaper’s account. The company did issue a statement, saying: “BellSouth does not provide any confidential customer information to the NSA or any governmental agency without proper legal authority.”In an interview Monday, BellSouth spokesman Jeff Battcher said the company was not asking for a correction from USA TODAY.Asked to define “bulk customer calling records,” Battcher said: “We are not providing any information to the NSA, period.” He said he did not know whether BellSouth had a contract with the Department of Defense, which oversees the NSA.

So BellSouth put out a statement denying what USA Today reported, but the spokesman says the company is not asking for a correction. Could have something to do with those class-action lawsuits.