ways for them to signed up and for ways for them to enroll. that s in addition to online, by phone, in. ern and by mail. this is work as we ve said that comes about because the website. october 1st on has not functioned at a level that meets the president s standards, has not functioned at the level that would meet the secretary s standards. therefore, we have you know, taken all these efforts to make the necessary improvements so that we can improve this experience. what s important to remember is from day one, americans have been able to get information and have been able to sign up and have been able to enroll. because in the end, this isn t about a website. it s about make sure that millions of americans have access to affordable health insurance, many of them for the first time. yes? thank you, jay. the report that josh mentioned citing officials made it sound as if the program had
jay carney strongly drending the nsa surveilance program. listen to this. the president has directed us to review our surveilance capabilities. we ve talked a little bit about this and the president certainly has, but it s good in the context of some of the stories that we ve seen of late to remember that the president called for a review earlier in this summer. this much review is being led by the white house and it includes agencies from across the government. there are also important efforts underway that will enable others to review how we strike the right balance including the review group on intelligence and communications technology and the privacy and civil liberties oversight board. our review is looking across the board at our intelligence gathering to ensure that was as we gather intelligence, we are properly accounting for both the security of citizens and our allies and the privacy concerns shared by americans and citizens around the world.
9/11 that has affected i mean the whole world in the way that we transmit and gather information. and that includes that has brought about changes in the way and developments in the way we gather intelligence and changes in the way that those in the world who want to do harm to americans and do harm to our allies operate. so that has meant that we ve had to adapt. and as we ve adapted, and as we adapt, we need to make sure as the president is insisting that we are keeping a balance that protects our security and takes into account our real privacy concerns. as the i m sure i don t have to tell you, revelations of had eavesdropping or alleged eavesdropping have caused damage with our allies. what would you expect the reyou voos to be done and would you expect them to include any scaling back of monitoring of
that do exist and have existed with the website. and they are fixing them incrementally as jeff zients and others have talked about. that work continues and improvements are happening every day. and the consumer experience on the website will have continue to improve every day. incrementally as those changes are made. more changes have taken place that make the website more efficient and effective for consumers as we speak. the separate issue of the essentially the company that hosts the site having a trouble that caused it to shut down is not linked to the troubles that we are identifying and isolating and working on and fixing. so you know, we re glad to see that the site is up and running that the issue vanderzee been resolved and we re obviously continuing the work of making improvements to the site as we make it more apparent to americans across the country that there are four ways pore them to get information, four
on using the tools available to us to gather intelligence that we need not just gather intelligence because we can. because earlier in the summer, he was sort of making the distinction about u.s. persons. i think you re conflating a couple of programs when it comes to e-mails. there are different programs and metadata programs and there s you said we re not listening in on your phone calls and i can assure you if you re a u.s. person we re not listening in on your phone calls. i have the exact quotes. i m not sure what question you re asking because when it comes to matters of section 215 and 202, they re very zing when it comes to metadata versus other kinds of collection. they re distinct. the president in all he has said about this issue not just since the disclosures but even before them reflects his commitment to ensuring that we do everything we have to do within the law to keep america safe, keep americans safe and keep our