Susan Rice
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2020-12-11 Biden introduces Susan Rice, others for key administration Posts During an afternoon event in Wilmington, Del., Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris presented Susan Rice as the White House domestic policy adviser. Biden specifically praised Rice, who served as national security adviser and ambassador to the United Nations during the Obama administration, as a “policy heavyweight” who’d be serving in a “big and critical role” in his own White House.
2020-12-10 Susan Rice finds a home in Biden White House without facing Republican senators Susan Rice, who was vilified by conservatives during the Obama administration’s Benghazi scandal, has been tapped by President-elect Joe Biden to lead his White House Domestic Policy Council.
The move gives the longtime Washington insider a senior place within the coming Biden administration without requiring Senate confirmation. She had been said to be on his vice presidential shortlist, although it was unclear to experts how she helped him electorally. Ms Rice also was rumored as a secretary of state nominee, but with a razor-thin majority for whichever party ultimately controls the Senate, her confirmation fight would have been contentious and uncertain.
2020-12-10 Biden taps Susan Rice for top White House domestic policy job Democrats had concerns about Rice’s ability to get confirmed in a Republican-controlled Senate, and the director of the Domestic Policy Council is not a Senate-confirmed position. The Biden team had been looking to find a high-profile role for Rice, but the top domestic policy job comes as a surprise given her expertise and experience in foreign policy.
In her position, Rice, 56, will play a large role in implementing Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, a wide-ranging set of policy proposals that would invest trillions of dollars in American infrastructure and manufacturing, clean energy, caregiving, education and racial equity. A person familiar with Biden’s thinking said he chose Rice for the role because of her deep experience in crisis management and interagency processes
2020-12-10 By tapping Susan Rice, Biden embraced worst corruption of Obama years (right wing)
2020-08-10 Susan Rice Was a Diplomatic Disaster
2020-08-07 Progressives alarmed by Rice’s vast financial investments Now, with the multimillionaire Rice in contention to be Joe Biden’s running mate, that investment is again drawing fire from progressives. They say her extensive past holdings in an array of industries at odds with liberal causes — particularly the Keystone investment — could make her ill-suited to be vice president in a Democratic administration.
2020-07-31 Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Susan Rice (right wing)
2020-05-20 Susan Rice responds to ‘dishonest accusations’ after email about Obama meeting on Flynn declassified Allies of President Donald Trump are seizing upon newly declassified portions of an email written by former national security adviser Susan Rice as evidence that an investigation into her incoming successor, Michael Flynn, was politically motivated, while Rice says the same email proves the previous administration’s concerns were legitimate.
Rice sent herself an email on the day of Trump’s inauguration that recounts a Jan. 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting she attended along with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. She described the meeting as a “follow-on conversation” after a briefing by intelligence community leaders on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book,'” Rice wrote. “The President stressed that he is not asking about, intimating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.”
2019-11-23 Susan Rice: ‘Domestic divisions are the greatest threat to our national security’ “Today our domestic political divisions constitute the greatest threat to our national security,” Rice argues in her book. That is in part because of the unlimited role of big money in politics, partly because of relentless gerrymandering of congressional districts, but also because “our adversaries have demonstrated both the will and capacity to weaponise our divisions to use against us”.
The US is making it easy for its enemies “because we now have a leader in the White House whose express intent is to exacerbate those divisions”.
“We never had a president before who actively demonizes large segments of the population. And who denigrates the freedom of the press and the institutions of the state that are there to serve him and the country.” Rice said.
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