White House rejects privacy board findings

The White House said it rejected an analysis from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board that found the program collecting Americans' telephone data illegal and ineffective.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said members of the administration "simply disagree with the board's analysis on the legality of the program." He also said the President believed the metadata program, "combined with the other programs and efforts that are undertaken as part of our signal intelligence collection, have had the effect of making Americans more safe, of disrupting potential terrorist plots against the United States and the American people as well as our allies, and that it is a useful tool in the effort to combat terrorists."