Susan Rice As National Security Adviser?

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Susan Rice As National Security Adviser? U.N. Ambassador Said To Be Front-Runner -- Washington Post

UNITED NATIONS — Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who lost out in a bruising bid for the job of secretary of state, may have the last laugh.

Rice has emerged as far and away the front-runner to succeed Thomas E. Donilon as President Obama’s national security adviser later this year, according to an administration official familiar with the president’s thinking. The job would place her at the nexus of foreign-policy decision making and allow her to rival the influence of Secretary of State John F. Kerry in shaping the president’s foreign policy.

The appointment would mark a dramatic twist of fortune for Rice, whose prospects to become the country’s top diplomat fizzled last year after a round of television appearances in which she provided what turned out to be a flawed account of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

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Update: Rice said to be at top of the list for national security adviser -- The Hill

My Comment: Susan Rice has been a close confident of President Obama for years, and it obvious that he does want her in the White House. The difference in this position is that the Republicans will not be able to block her appointment over Benghazi.