U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon Is Resigning And Will Be Replaced By U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice

National Security Advisor Tom Donilon with President Barack Obama (photo credit: White House/Pete Souza)

Tom Donilon Resigning As National Security Adviser; Susan Rice To Replace Him -- Washington Post

National security adviser Tom Donilon will resign his post and be replaced by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, a close confidant of President Obama with deep foreign policy experience who has been widely expected to move into the job.

White House officials said Donilon’s resignation will take effect early next month. A seasoned Washington insider, Donilon has held senior national security posts in the administration since Obama took office, rising from the principal deputy national security adviser to his current job.

But his reputation for protecting Obama politically has caused friction with other agencies over the years, beginning in the fall of 2009, when he advocated for a far smaller deployment of U.S. troops in Afghanistan than the Pentagon had requested.

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My Comment: I commented before that President Obama would love to have Susan Rice in the White House. They have known each other for years, and the President has the utmost confidence in her. By making her his national security adviser, she will be able to skip the confirmation process, a process that would have raised questions on Benghazi .... questions that the administration is still refusing to answer.

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