{"footnote":"  \u003Cp\u003E    Their denials were interestingly in contrast to the brilliant non-denial issued by Verizon, the US\u0026rsquo;s second largest phone company, in response to the earlier story that it had been forced to hand    over all its call records to the NSA. In a memo to staff, a company vice president wrote: \u0026lsquo;You may have seen stories in the news about a top secret order Verizon allegedly received to produce    certain calling information to the US government. We have no comment on the accuracy of the \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003EGuardian\u003C\/em\u003E newspaper story or the documents referenced, but a few items in    these stories are important. The alleged court order that the \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003EGuardian\u003C\/em\u003E published on its website contains language that a) compels Verizon to respond; b) forbids    Verizon from revealing the order\u0026rsquo;s existence \u0026hellip; Nevertheless, the law authorises the federal courts to order a company to provide information in certain circumstances, and if Verizon were to    receive such an order, we would be required to comply.\u0026rsquo;  \u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}