Week In The News: Obamacare Glitches, Drone Strikes And NSA Revelations

Obamacare rollout under scrutiny. NSA snooping angers U.S. allies. Students killing teachers. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

U.S. allies all over not happy this week as news comes out that the NSA spied on them.  Their top leaders.  Angela Merkel’s cell phone.  And many more.  Acht du lieber!  Spies gone wild.  In Washington, it was all healthcare.gov all the time as hearings geared up on the Obamacare rollout.  And still it’s rocky.  The president says it’s time for immigration reform.  GOP not so sure.  East and West we’ve got dead teachers, killed by students.  And Amnesty International goes after American drone strikes.  Up next On Point: our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
-- Tom Ashbrook

David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times. (@SangerNYT)

Kelly O'Donnell, Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News. (@KellyO)

Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst.

New York Times: Pakistani Premier Meets Obama to Mend Ties -- "To symbolize a new beginning, the Obama administration will release more than $1.5 billion in aid to Pakistan, which had been held up because of tensions over the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, as well as the killing of two civilians by a C.I.A. contractor in Lahore and a wayward American airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border."

The Guardian: Angela Merkel's call to Obama: are you bugging my mobile phone? -- "While European leaders have generally been keen to play down the impact of the whistleblowing disclosures in recent months, events in the EU's two biggest countries this week threatened an upward spiral of lack of trust in transatlantic relations. Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, made plain that Merkel upbraided Obama unusually sharply and also voiced exasperation at the slowness of the Americans to respond to detailed questions on the NSA scandal since the Snowden revelations first appeared in the Guardian in June."

National Journal: Buck Stops With Obama on Rocky Rollout of Health Care Plan — "To be sure, every major rollout of a new or changed social policy, including Medicare itself, is rough and takes weeks or months to resolve. But this rollout is clearly worse, and, as we learn more about its history over the past six months and more, the failures in vision and execution, in the face of clear and blunt warnings of problems ahead, are striking and troubling."

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