Obamacare and NSA spying: What did Obama know, and when did he find out?

Obamacare and NSA spying: What did Obama know, and when did he find out?

By Catherine E. Shoichet and Holly Yan, CNN

updated 10:47 AM EDT, Tue October 29, 2013

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/29/politics/obamacare-nsa/index.html

(CNN) -- When it comes to leadership and personal responsibility, President Barack Obama has made his stance very clear: "The buck stops with me."

It's a phrase he's echoed countless times in the past. But now, he's dealing with an accountability double-whammy -- fallout from the botched Obamacare website and global fury over the wiretapping of some allied leaders' conversations.

So what all did the President know, and when did he find out? Depends on who you ask.

Some U.S. officials have said that Obama didn't know about problems with the health care enrollment site before it launched and that he only recently learned about a National Security Agency operation that wiretapped German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone for a decade.

"It is my understanding that President Obama was not aware Chancellor Merkel's communications were being collected since 2002," Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein said. "That is a big problem."

But other officials said Obama -- or at least his White House staff -- did know about it.

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Donna S. Morea was an EVP for the CGI Group Inc., and a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.

CGI Group Inc. was the Obamacare contractor that developed Healthcare.gov web site.

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