Why are we NOW hearing about the NSA snooping on other governments?

Do ya think the stories about the US Government (NSA)  reading the e-mails of foreign governments is related to the fiasco of Obamacare and its rollout? Are the stories fodder for the mainstream media to focus attention in the nightly news away from Obamacare and the disaster it is?   My intuition and suspicious Scorpio nature says YES!