Faiz Shakir at ThinkProgress has a screencapture from CNN’s presentation of United Nations Ambassador-designate Susan Rice at the Obama national-security team rollout this morning.
ABC News is reporting that Susan Rice — you remember her, I’m sure — is now the leading candidate to become Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations.
On the merits, I tend to think Rice is so talented she’ll be great at any portfolio she gets. And More…
The Washington Post looks at three prospects to become Obama’s national security adviser: Susan Rice, whom readers may recall from a recent profile; Gen. Jim Jones, former NATO commander; and Jim Steinberg, former deputy national security adviser to Bill Clinton and skilled bartender.
In April 2007, as the United States was enmeshed in two wars, a Brookings Institution scholar and Clinton-era State Dept. official testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in favor of taking military action as a last resort to stop the genocide in Darfur.
“A collective shame” was what Susan More…
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