White House officials are insisting that the president didn't know that his National Security Agency was bugging German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone.  However, according to a report in German-language newspaper Bild am Sonntag, President Obama "personally authorized the monitoring of Angela Merkel's phone three years ago." So here we go again.  What did Obama know, and when did he know it?  The Merkel-Obama scandal is now supplanting the ObamaCare IT fiasco.  Before the health care website flop, there were Benghazi, Syria, and Fast and Furious.  What about the IRS targeting conservative groups and the Tea Party?  No one bothered to tell Obama about that little powder keg, either.  "I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the [inspector general's] report beforehand," said Obama.  Over the last five years Americans have...(Read Full Post)