Susan Rice

The Benghazi talking points

2013-05-16 00:00:00

The furor over the Benghazi talking points continues. Republicans still see them as the main event in a campaign to embarrass President Obama. The president, for his part, calls them a "sideshow." Finally, on Wednesday, the White House released more...

Mistaken Benghazi claim came from CIA, emails show

2013-05-15 19:09:00

WASHINGTON — Career CIA officers were responsible for administration claims that the armed attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead last fall grew out of a protest of an anti-Islamic video, an incorrect assertion that became a...

Goldberg: Benghazi's smoking guns

2013-05-14 00:00:00

President Obama was asked about the metastasizing Benghazi scandal in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday. Referring to the Americans who died in Benghazi, the president said, "We dishonor them when we turn things...

Administration emails raise new questions on Libya attack

2013-05-10 21:54:00

WASHINGTON — Email traffic exchanged during the drafting of talking points about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last year shows that the State Department and White House were more involved in shaping the...

Envoy describes night of Benghazi attack

2013-05-08 16:27:00

WASHINGTON — Minutes after Greg Hicks learned that the perimeter of the U.S. mission in Benghazi had been breached by men with guns, he punched a cellphone number to reach Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, his immediate boss, who was at the scene....

Nobody died at Watergate, but it was a bigger scandal than Benghazi

2013-05-08 17:49:00

Before Wednesday's hearing into last September’s attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said: “If you link Watergate and Iran-Contra together and multiply it maybe by 10 or so, you’re going to...

Rand Paul accuses Hillary Clinton of 'dereliction of duty' on Libya

2013-05-11 06:00:00

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Sen. Rand Paul sharply attacked former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, declaring that her actions in the months leading up to the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya last year were "inexcusable, it was a dereliction of...

Charlotte, N.C., mayor expected to be nominated for Cabinet

2013-04-28 18:54:00

WASHINGTON -- President Obama will nominate Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx as the new secretary of Transportation on Monday, a White House official said. If confirmed, Foxx would take charge of a department that has been in the spotlight of late...

U.N. Security Council moves toward new sanctions on North Korea

2013-03-05 13:26:00

WASHINGTON -- The U.N.� Security Council moved Tuesday toward approval of new sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear test last month, drawing a furious reaction from Pyongyang. The proposed sanctions, introduced by the United States with the support...

U.N. approves new sanctions against North Korea

2013-03-07 09:38:00

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, a move that sparked a furious Pyongyang to threaten a nuclear strike against the United States. The...

Tighter U.N. sanctions target North Korean banking and cargo

2013-03-07 10:05:00

The United Nations Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on North Korea on Thursday in reaction to its defiant nuclear test last month, tightening financial restrictions on the isolated nation. The vote came after North Korea threatened to...

U.N. Security Council loosens arms embargo on Somalia

2013-03-06 14:48:00

An arms embargo on Somalia will be eased for a year, allowing the country's new government to buy some weapons to battle religious extremists, the U.N. Security Council said Wednesday. The Security Council resolution adopted Wednesday maintains the...

Susan Rice was said to be on the shortlist for secretary of state in Obama's second term until she withdrew after GOP criticism of her response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, talks with reporters after informal consultations of the U.N. Security Council in New York on Tuesday.

2013-03-05 00:00:00

Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks after an emergency Security Council meeting on North Korea.

2013-02-12 00:00:00