Obama had repeatedly stated that, although new health-care insurance would be available through the Affordable Care Act, those willing to stay on their plan would be able to do so.
In fact, that wasn’t the case. Thousands who had bought insurance have been receiving cancellations notices from insurers.
The president said he wasn’t aware his promise before the rollout would result in cancellations, and has apologized for his assurances.
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Our allies weren’t too happy when it was revealed that the National Security Agency had been tapping the phones of our friends abroad, such as Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel.
The White House has said Obama didn’t know of the NSA’s actions, which took place for over five years.
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The saga of HealthCare.Gov is well known.
The Web site has been filled with bugs, and many are having problems trying to register for Obamacare.
Katherine Sebelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary, said the president wasn’t informed of the problems during the site’s test run until after the launch.
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Reports were released in the spring of 2013 that the Internal Revenue Service was improperly keeping tabs on various tea party organizations.
Turns out senior White House officials, including Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, knew about the actions but decided to keep them from Obama.
The reasoning was “in part to protect him from even the appearance of trying to influence an investigation.”
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In May, reports were released stating the Justice Department secretly collected phone records of Associated Press journalists.
The action was highly criticized, but White House spokesman Jay Carney said that President Barack Obama didn’t know anything about the DoJ investigation.
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The FBI launched an investigation on CIA David Petraeus’s extramarital affair, which Attorney General Eric Holder learned about in the late summer of 2012.
Obama didn’t find out until months later, two days after the 2012 election.
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In what is now an infamous series of events, on Sept. 11, 2012, four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed in an attack in eastern Libya.
Former security chiefs testified that requests for heightened security had been made in Benghazi, but Obama stated that he had not been informed about such appeals.
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A gun-tracking operation with the mission that trading guns would lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to Mexican drug cartels went wrong when 2,000 of those weapons went missing.
After rumors that this program was in part of the White House’s anti-gun agenda, Carney said “the President did not know about this tactic until he heard about it through the media.”
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