Google: 'We're not in cahoots' with NSA

David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, beat back against allegations that the search company is "in cahoots with the NSA" and has allowed the spy agency to tap into its servers for user data.

"I’m not sure I can say this more clearly: we’re not in cahoots with the NSA and there’s is no government program that Google participates in that allows the kind of access that the media originally reported," Drummond said in response to a question asked during a live Web chat hosted by U.K. newspaper The Guardian. "There is no free-for-all, no direct access, no indirect access, no back door, no drop box," he added.