TPM Reader FZ bemoans the fact that he doesn't have the Verizon security clearance: "Some of the phone company mumbo-jumbo suggests that the reason we can't be told what the telco-NSA connection is really about is because the information is classified. So are we ordinary dopes out here supposed to assume that these phone company spokespeople have some kind of national security clearance that allows them to deal with top-secret material that we are not qualified to know about?"