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Susan Rice

Susan Elizabeth Rice (born November 17, 1964) is an American diplomat, policy advisor, and public official serving as Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Rice served as the 27th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013 and as the 23rd U.S. National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2017.

Susan Rice
22nd Director of the Domestic Policy Council
Assumed office
January 20, 2021
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byBrooke Rollins (acting)
23rd United States National Security Advisor
In office
July 1, 2013 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
DeputyAntony Blinken
Avril Haines
Preceded byThomas E. Donilon
Succeeded byMichael Flynn
27th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
In office
January 26, 2009 (2009-01-26) – June 30, 2013 (2013-06-30)
PresidentBarack Obama
DeputyBrooke Anderson
Rosemary DiCarlo
Preceded byZalmay Khalilzad
Succeeded bySamantha Power
12th Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
In office
October 14, 1997 – January 20, 2001
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byGeorge Moose
Succeeded byWalter H. Kansteiner III
Personal details
Born
Susan Elizabeth Rice

(1964-11-17) November 17, 1964 (age 58)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Ian O. Cameron
(m. 1992)
Children2
Parent(s)Emmett J. Rice (father)
Lois Dickson Rice (mother)
EducationStanford University (BA)
New College, Oxford (MPhil, DPhil)
Occupation
  • Diplomat
  • politician
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Rice was born in Washington, D.C., and attended Stanford University and New College, Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar and received a DPhil (PhD). She served on President Bill Clinton's National Security Council staff from 1993 to 1997 and was the assistant secretary of state for African affairs at the State Department from 1997 to 2001. Appointed at age 32, Rice was at the time the youngest person to have served as a regional assistant secretary of state. Rice's tenure saw significant changes in U.S.–Africa policy, including the passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, support for democratic transitions in South Africa and Nigeria, and an increased U.S. focus on fighting HIV/AIDS.

A former Brookings Institution fellow, Rice served as a foreign policy advisor to Democratic presidential nominees Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, and Barack Obama. After Obama won the 2008 presidential election, Rice was nominated as Ambassador to the United Nations. The Senate confirmed her by unanimous consent on January 22, 2009. During her tenure at the United Nations, Rice championed a human rights and anti-poverty agenda, elevated climate change and LGBT and women's rights as global priorities, and committed the U.S. to agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. She also defended Israel at the Security Council, pushed for tough sanctions against Iran and North Korea, and advocated for U.S. and NATO intervention in Libya in 2011.

Mentioned as a possible replacement for retiring United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton in 2012,[1][2] Rice withdrew from consideration following controversy related to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi.[3] President Barack Obama instead named her National Security Advisor in 2013, where she supported U.S. efforts on the Iran nuclear deal of 2015, the Ebola epidemic, the reopening to Cuba, and the Paris Agreement on climate change. In 2021, Rice became the director of the Domestic Policy Council in the Biden administration.[4]

Early life

Rice was born in Washington D.C.,[5] to education policy scholar Lois Rice (née Dickson), who helped design the federal Pell Grant subsidy system and who joined the Brookings Institution in 1992;[6] and Emmett J. Rice (1919–2011), a Cornell University economics professor and the second black governor of the Federal Reserve System.[5] Her maternal grandparents were Jamaican immigrants to Portland, Maine; her paternal grandparents were the descendants of enslaved Africans and from South Carolina.[7][8] Her parents divorced when Rice was ten years of age.[9] In 1978, her mother married Alfred Bradley Fitt, an attorney, who at the time was general counsel of the U. S. Congressional Budget Office.

Rice said that her parents taught her to "never use race as an excuse or advantage," and as a young girl she "dreamed of becoming the first U.S. senator from the District of Columbia".[5]

Rice was a three-letter varsity athlete,[10] student government president, and valedictorian at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., a private girls' day school.[11] She attended Stanford University, where she won a Truman Scholarship and graduated with a BA with honors in history in 1986. She was also awarded a National Merit Scholarship and elected Phi Beta Kappa her junior year.[12][13][14]

Rice attended New College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, where she earned Master of Philosophy (1988) and Doctor of Philosophy (1990) degrees, both in International Relations.[14] Her doctoral dissertation was entitled Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979–1980: Implications for International Peacekeeping. Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, honored her dissertation as the UK's most distinguished in international relations.[5][15] During her time at Oxford, Rice was a member of the Oxford University Women's Basketball Team.[16]

Early career

Rice served as a foreign policy aide to Michael Dukakis during his campaign in the 1988 presidential election. She was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, from 1990 to early 1992. Rice worked in McKinsey's Toronto office.[17]

Clinton administration (1993–2001)

Rice served in the Clinton administration in various capacities: at the National Security Council (NSC) from 1993 to 1997 (as director for international organizations and peacekeeping from 1993 to 1995, and as special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs from 1995 to 1997); and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997 to 2001. Rice's tenure saw significant changes in U.S.-Africa policy, including the passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, support for democratic transitions in South Africa and Nigeria, and an increased U.S. focus on fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic.[7]: 201–204 

National Security Council

At the time of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Rice reportedly said, "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November election?" She denied the quote but acknowledged the mistakes made at the time and felt that a debt needed repaying.[18][7]: 152  The inability or failure of the Clinton administration to do anything about the genocide would form her later views on possible military interventions.[19] She said of the experience: "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required."[20] Later in 2012, during an interview with The New Republic, Rice stated "To suggest that I’m repenting for [Rwanda] or that I’m haunted by that or that I don't sleep at night because of that or that every policy I've implemented subsequently is driven by that is garbage."[21]

Timothy M. Carney, former U.S. ambassador to Sudan, co-authored an op-ed in 2002 claiming that in 1997 Sudan offered to turn over its intelligence on bin Laden but that Rice, together with then NSC terrorism specialist Richard A. Clarke, successfully lobbied for continuing to bar U.S. officials from engaging with the Khartoum government.[22] Similar allegations were made by Vanity Fair contributing editor David Rose[23] and Richard Miniter, author of Losing Bin Laden.[24] The allegations against Rice were determined to be unfounded by the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and the 9/11 Commission, which found no evidence that Sudan ever made an offer to share intelligence on bin Laden.[7]

Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a longtime mentor and family friend to Rice, urged Clinton to appoint Rice as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in 1997.[5] At a confirmation hearing chaired by Senator John Ashcroft, Rice, who attended the hearing along with her infant son whom she was then nursing, made a great impression on senators from both parties and "sailed through the confirmation process."[5]

In the context of the Rwandan, Ugandan, AFDL and Angolan invasion of Zaire (later known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1996 and overthrow of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, Rice is alleged to have said that "Anything's better than Mobutu."[25] According to Gérard Prunier, a staffer to the Assistant Secretary said that "the only thing we have to do is look the other way," with respect to regional intervention in the conflict.[26] New York Times correspondent Howard W. French said that according to his sources, Rice herself made the remark.[27]

On July 7, 1998, Rice was a member of an American delegation to visit detained Nigerian president-elect Basorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. During this meeting, Abiola suffered a fatal heart attack.[28]

Rice supported U.S. efforts to reach both the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement in the Congo and the Lomé Peace Accord in Sierra Leone.[29] Some observers criticized the Sierra Leone agreement as too indulgent of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and for bringing the war criminal Foday Sankoh into government, leading to the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1313, which blamed the RUF for the continuing conflict in the west African country.[30] Rice played a major role in peace negotiations between Ethiopia and Eritrea during the Eritrean–Ethiopian War, leading to the Algiers Agreement in 2000 ending the conflict. For her efforts she was named a co-recipient of the White House's Samuel Nelson Drew Memorial Award for "distinguished contributions to the formation of peaceful, cooperative relationships between nations," alongside Gayle Smith and Anthony Lake.[31][7]: 183 

Rice had a contentious relationship with State Department veteran Richard Holbrooke, whom she considered to be meddling on her turf and who in return felt she was rising too quickly in U.S. diplomatic ranks.[32][33]

Business and think tank activities (2001–2008)

 
Susan E. Rice (middle) at the USCIRF hearings (November 27, 2001)

Rice was managing director and principal at Intellibridge from 2001 to 2002.[34][35] From 2002 to 2009, she was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where "she focused on U.S. foreign policy, weak and failing states, the implications of global poverty, and transnational threats to security."[36]

Michael E. O'Hanlon and Ivo Daalder, two Brookings colleagues of Rice at the time, said that Rice consistently opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq in the run-up to the war.[37] In 2012, columnist Peter Beinart reviewed a series of NPR interviews with Rice in late 2002 and early 2003 and concluded that Rice's position on war was equivocal.[38][39] For example, in a December 2002 NPR interview, Rice said, "It's clear that Iraq poses a major threat. It's clear that its weapons of mass destruction need to be dealt with forcefully, and that's the path we're on. I think the question becomes whether we can keep the diplomatic balls in the air and not drop any, even as we move forward, as we must, on the military side.... The George W. Bush administration frankly owes the American public a much fuller and more honest assessment of what the costs will be of the actual conflict, as well as the aftermath, the post-conflict reconstruction. And the costs are going to be huge."[38][37][40] In her memoir, Rice wrote, "Long experienced with the menace of Al Qaeda, I was one of the very few scholars at Brookings to openly oppose the Iraq War. From the start, I viewed that war of choice as a dangerous diversion from the main objective of defeating Al Qaeda globally and in Afghanistan."[7]: 212  Shortly after the war began, Rice warned that the U.S. commitment to rebuilding Iraq would likely last for many years.[41]

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Rice served as a foreign policy adviser to John Kerry.[42]

Rice went on leave from the Brookings Institution to serve as a senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign. She was one of the first high-profile foreign policy staffers to sign onto Obama's campaign, as most of her peers had supported Hillary Clinton during the presidential primaries.[32] Rice criticized Obama's Republican opponent in the campaign, John McCain, calling his policies "reckless" and dismissing the Arizona senator's trip to Iraq as "strolling around the market in a flak jacket."[43]

On November 5, 2008, Rice was named to the advisory board of the Obama–Biden transition.[44]

United States ambassador to the United Nations (2009–2013)

 
Rice with Barack Obama and Joe Biden, December 2008

On December 1, 2008, President-elect Obama announced that he would nominate Rice to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations,[45][46] a position which he restored to cabinet level.[47] Reportedly, Rice had wanted the post of national security advisor, which instead went to retired United States Marine Corps general James L. Jones.[32]

 
Rice meets with Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, September 2012

At her confirmation hearing, Rice was introduced by Senator Susan Collins who said "I can think of ... no better messenger than Dr. Susan Rice. I am honored to present her to this distinguished committee, and I enthusiastically endorse her nomination."[48] Rice was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on January 22, 2009.[49][50] Rice became the second-youngest person[47] and the first black woman to represent the U.S. at the UN.[51]

 
Rice meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, May 2014

During her tenure at the United Nations, Rice championed a human rights and anti-poverty agenda, elevated climate change and women's rights as global priorities, and committed the U.S. to agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the U.N. Millennium Development Goals.[citation needed] Rice led the fight to advance LGBT rights at the U.N. Human Rights Council and was recognized for her staunch defense of Israel at the Security Council.[52][53] Rice won praise for leading the Security Council to impose the toughest sanctions to date on Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs, and for reaffirming U.S. commitment to the UN and multilateralism.[54]

Three Security Council diplomats took issue with Rice's negotiating style, calling it "rude" and overly blunt, while others attributed those criticisms to sexism. According to David Rothkopf of Foreign Policy, Rice could be challenging to work with due to her "toughness"—in the mold of James Baker or Henry Kissinger—but had the asset of a close relationship with the U.S. president and proved to be an effective policymaker. Some human rights activists took issue with Rice and U.S. foreign policy generally in 2012 for working against UN statements that criticized Rwanda for supporting a rebel group in Congo known for committing atrocities.[55]

Libyan Civil War

As the 2011 Libyan Civil War progressed, the United States and its allies offered a choice for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his aides: step down from power or face an international response. Rice offered some of the toughest rhetoric toward Gaddafi, criticizing his denials of atrocities against his own citizens as "frankly, delusional."[56] In a closed-door Security Council meeting in April 2011, Rice reportedly stated that Gaddafi loyalists engaged in atrocities, including terrorizing the population with sexual violence, and that Gaddafi's troops has been issued Viagra.[57] Investigations by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders contradicted Rice and stated they did not find first-hand evidence that mass rapes had occurred as Rice had claimed.[58][59][60] Together with National Security Council figure Samantha Power, who already supported the U.S.-led military intervention in Libya, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who came to support it, the three overcame internal opposition from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, security adviser Thomas E. Donilon, and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, to have the administration advance a UN proposal to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and authorize other military actions as necessary.[19][61]

On March 17, 2011, the UK, France and Lebanon joined the U.S. to vote for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 while Brazil, Germany, and India joined permanent Security Council members China and Russia in abstaining. Rice and Clinton played major roles in gaining approval for the resolution.[19][62] Rice said, "we are interested in a broad range of actions that will effectively protect civilians and increase the pressure on the Gaddafi regime to halt the killing and to allow the Libyan people to express themselves in their aspirations for the future freely and peacefully."[63]

Syrian Civil War

In January 2012, after the Russian and Chinese veto of a Security Council resolution calling on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down, Rice strongly condemned both countries, saying, "They put a stake in the heart of efforts to resolve this conflict peacefully," and adding that "we the United States are standing with the people of Syria. Russia and China are obviously with Assad."[64] In her words, "the United States is disgusted that a couple of members of this Council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose."[65]

2012 Benghazi attack

On September 11, 2012, a U.S. diplomatic facility and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked, resulting in the deaths of the United States ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service information management officer Sean Smith, and two former Navy SEALS, Glen Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods. On September 16, Rice appeared on five major interview shows to discuss the attacks. Prior to her appearance, Rice was provided with "talking points" from a CIA memo.[66]

Each of the 11 drafts of CIA talking points maintained that the attack was "spontaneously inspired" by a violent protest at the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt, hours earlier, which had been triggered by the release of an anti-Muslim video.[67] Protestors breached and entered the embassy compound.[68] During the hours before the Benghazi attack, Egyptian satellite television networks popular in Benghazi had been covering the outrage over the video.[69]

Since Rice's five television appearances, there have been persistent accusations that she had intentionally misled the public. However, none of the ten Benghazi investigations conducted by Congress—six by Republican-controlled House committees—determined she had. The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee's two-year investigation found that CIA analysts had erred and that there was no conclusive evidence showing that Rice or any other government official acted in bad faith or intentionally misled the American people.[70]

A group of 97 House Republicans sent a letter to Obama on November 19 to say Rice's statements were "misleading" and that she should accordingly not be considered a candidate to succeed Hillary Clinton in 2013 as Secretary of State.[71] Some Republican senators, who would have had a vote on whether to confirm Rice, also voiced objections and said their meetings with Rice at the end of November 2012 did not ease their concerns.[72][73][74] On December 13, 2012, in a letter to Obama, Rice asked him to remove her name from consideration for Secretary of State.[3]

United States National Security Advisor (2013–2017)

 
Rice and President Barack Obama meet with Saudi Arabia's minister of the national guard, Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah, November 19, 2014

Rice was picked to succeed Tom Donilon as National Security Advisor following Donilon's resignation on June 5, 2013.[75] The position of National Security Advisor does not require Senate approval.[76] Rice was sworn in on July 1, 2013.[77] During her tenure, she supported major U.S. efforts on the Iran nuclear deal of 2015, Ebola epidemic, reopening to Cuba, fight against the Islamic State, and Paris Agreement on climate change.

 
President Obama and Rice speaking with Russian president Vladimir Putin and Putin's interpreter while attending the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey (the photo was not taken during an official meeting) November 15, 2015

In releasing the 2015 National Security Strategy, Rice said that the United States was pursuing an "ambitious yet achievable agenda" overseas. She argued that U.S. leadership had been essential for success on issues including Ebola,[78] Iran's nuclear program, and sanctioning Russia over Ukraine. The document formed a blueprint for foreign policy, defense, and national security for the last two years of Obama's second term. It had previously been updated in 2010. In a letter outlining the strategy, Obama said that the U.S. would "always defend our interests and uphold our commitments to allies and partners," adding, "But we have to make hard choices among many competing priorities and we must always resist the overreach that comes when we make decisions based upon fear."[79]

Middle East

Rice criticized human rights violations in U.S.-aligned Egypt and condemned the August 2013 Rabaa massacre, in which Egyptian security forces killed over 1,000 people during mass anti-government protests. Her position at times contradicted that of Secretary of State John Kerry.[80][81] In response, Rice led a review of U.S. assistance to Egypt, which resulted in the cancellation of planned joint military exercises and suspension of arms shipments.[7]: 351 

Rice was the lone dissenter in Obama's national security team on his decision to seek congressional authorization for military strikes against Syria's chemical weapons facilities, following the Assad regime's use of sarin gas against civilians in August 2013. She argued that the administration should move forward with strikes to punish Assad, correctly predicting Congress would not grant authorization.[82] Rice and Kerry later worked to pursue a diplomatic solution with Russia instead. This effort led to United Nations Security Council Resolution 2118, which compelled Syria to destroy its declared chemical weapons stockpile and join the Chemical Weapons Convention. Under the agreement, 1,300 metric tons of chemical weapons were removed from Syria under international observation. Nevertheless, the Assad regime either obtained or produced additional sarin gas for renewed chemical attacks in 2017.[83]

In May 2014, Rice traveled to Israel for meetings with Israeli officials in which nuclear talks with Iran were discussed. Rice's visit, her first as National Security Advisor, came after peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians collapsed. The Obama administration made clear that Rice's trip was part of regularly scheduled talks and that the stalled Middle East peace discussions were not on the agenda.[84] Rice was criticized by some for intensifying the Obama administration's conflicts with Israel during her time as National Security Advisor. Dennis Ross, one of Obama's Middle East advisors, criticized Rice's "combative mind-set" as opposed to her predecessor, Tom Donilon, who played a more conciliatory role. Ross wrote that after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's public reprimand of the Obama administration's Iran negotiations, Rice relayed to Abraham Foxman that, "in her view, the Israeli leader did everything but use 'the N-word' in describing the president."[85][86] However, in July 2014, Rice expressed support for Israel's right to defend itself during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. She stated: "When countries single out Israel for unfair treatment at the UN, it isn't just a problem for Israel, it is a problem for all of us."[87] In 2015, Rice criticized Netanyahu for agreeing to speak to Congress about Iran's nuclear program without coordinating with the Obama administration.[88] She negotiated a new memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Israel in 2016 for $38 billion in military assistance, the largest such package in Israel's history.[89][7]: 430 

The Obama administration supported the Saudi-and Emirati-led intervention in Yemen and blockade of Yemen, but Rice opposed a coalition attack on the port city of Al Hudaydah and personally called UAE crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed to stop the planned offensive.[90]

Africa

Rice supported South Sudanese independence and initial U.S. aid to the government of president Salva Kiir Mayardit.[91][92] When the South Sudanese Civil War broke out in 2013 between President Kiir's forces and forces led by vice president Riek Machar, the U.S. continued its support for the Kiir administration despite reports from U.S. embassy staff of atrocities committed by the government.[93][94] Rice ultimately joined calls for an arms embargo against South Sudan in 2016, but the measure failed to win passage at the UN Security Council.[95][96]: 397 

Rice was perceived as close to Rwanda's president Paul Kagame.[97][98] Some critics of the Obama administration's Africa policy faulted Rice for what they viewed as the U.S.'s failure to take action against Rwanda for its role in the Kivu conflict.[99]

Afghanistan

On a visit to Pakistan in 2015, Rice warned Pakistani political and military leaders that attacks in Afghanistan by militants based in Pakistan threatened regional security. Rice also delivered an invitation from Obama for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to visit the United States in October. The meetings came at a tense time for Pakistan's relations with neighboring Afghanistan and archrival India, along with uncertainty over whether the United States would release $300 million in military aid to Pakistan.[100]

China

In a 2015 speech on China–United States relations, Rice noted the problems of Chinese intelligence operations in the United States, saying, "This is not a mild irritation. It is an economic and national security concern to the United States. It puts enormous strain on our bilateral relationship, and it is a critical factor in determining the future trajectory of U.S.–China ties."[101][102]

Post-Obama administration (2017–2021)

 
Rice shakes hands with National Security Advisor Designate Michael Flynn on January 10, 2017.
 
Rice at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in 2019

Private sector positions

On March 8, 2017, Rice became a distinguished visiting research fellow in the School of International Service (SIS) at American University. In her residency, she planned to work on her next book and to mentor young SIS students.[103]

On March 28, 2018, Rice was appointed to the board of directors at Netflix.[104]

Unmasking investigations

On April 3, 2017, Eli Lake reported in Bloomberg View that as National Security Advisor, Rice had requested that the identities of some Americans mentioned in intelligence reports related to the campaign and presidential transition of Donald Trump be unmasked.[105] Any request for an American's identity to be unmasked required approval by the National Security Agency; the agency's director, Michael Rogers, said it evaluated each request to determine "Is there a valid need to know in the course of the execution of their official duties?" and "Is the identification necessary to truly understand the context of the intelligence value that the report is designed to generate?"[106] Rice said that she asked for identities of U.S. persons to be revealed to provide context to the intelligence reports, and not for political purposes.[107][108]

The report of Rice unmasking Trump officials followed an announcement by Devin Nunes, the Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee, "that he had seen reports indicating that Mr. Trump or his associates might have been 'incidentally' swept up in the monitoring of foreigners".[108] The committee was investigating both Trump's ties to Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election and Trump's allegations that Obama had Trump Tower under surveillance.[105] Lake's April 3 report of the unmasking specified "Rice's requests to unmask the names of Trump transition officials do not vindicate Trump's own tweets from March 4 in which he accused Obama of illegally tapping Trump Tower."[105] Nevertheless, some Republicans called for an investigation into the unmasking while Democrats said that the unmasking story was a diversion from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[108]

After members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees were able to view the material on which Nunes based his assertions, both Democrats and Republicans familiar with the material said that there was "no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal".[109][110][111] Congressional intelligence sources called Rice's unmasking requests "normal and appropriate" for a national security adviser.[109]

In August 2017, Eli Lake reported in Bloomberg View that Rice's successor as national security adviser, H. R. McMaster, "has concluded that Rice did nothing wrong".[112]

Rice testified to the House Intelligence Committee in September 2017 that she requested the unmasking because of a redacted intelligence report concerning an undisclosed visit to the United States by United Arab Emirates crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in December 2016. During the visit, al-Nahyan met with Trump campaign advisors Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, and Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in New York. Rice's testimony appeared to allay the concerns of Republicans, with Committee member Mike Conaway stating, "She was a good witness, answered all our questions. I'm not aware of any reason to bring her back."[113][114]

In May 2020, Attorney General Bill Barr appointed federal prosecutor John Bash to examine unmasking conducted by the Obama administration.[115] The inquiry concluded in October 2020 with no findings of substantive wrongdoing.[116] Bash's 52-page report, previously classified top secret, was released in May 2022. Bash wrote he had found no evidence that any unmasking requests were made for any political or otherwise improper reasons during the 2016 election period or the ensuing presidential transition.[117]

Political positions

Rice criticized the United States' close relationship with Saudi Arabia despite the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses, Saudi Arabia's diplomatic dispute with Canada, Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen and Saudi Arabian-led blockade against Qatar.[118][119] Rice also criticized Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, which critics say gave Turkey the green light to invade and occupy northern Syria and attack Kurdish forces, who had assisted the U.S. in the destruction of the Islamic State.[120]

Rice has criticized Israeli proposals to annex parts of the West Bank and Jordan Valley, stating that such a move would make it more difficult to sustain traditionally bipartisan support for Israel in the United States.[121] Rice takes the view that a two-state solution is the only way to keep Israel both a Jewish and democratic state.[121]

Potential Senate campaign

After U.S. Senator Susan Collins from Maine voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Rice publicly considered challenging Collins in 2020,[122][123] before announcing in April 2019 that she would not run for Senate.[124]

Director of Domestic Policy Council (2021–present)

 
Rice speaks from the White House briefing room in January 2021

In July 2020, it was widely reported that Rice was under consideration to be Joe Biden's vice presidential running mate in the 2020 general election.[125] However, Kamala Harris was selected as Biden's running mate on August 11, 2020.

On September 5, 2020, Rice was announced to be a member of the advisory council of the Biden-Harris Transition Team, which planned the Biden's presidential transition.[126][127] In November, she was named a candidate for Secretary of State in the Biden Administration.[128]

Biden chose Rice to head the Domestic Policy Council.[129] This was considered a surprise by many political commentators, noting her experience in foreign policy over domestic policy.[130]

In April 2023, journalist Hannah Dreier suggested in a New York Times article that Rice was among the leading White House officials who may have been negligent in response to the uncovered migrant child labor crisis.[131]

On April 24, 2023, President Biden announced that Rice will be departing from her position as director of the Domestic Policy Council on May 26, 2023.[132]

Affiliations

Rice is a distinguished visiting research fellow at American University's School of International Service and non-resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.[103][133] She is also a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.[134] She is currently on the board of Netflix and is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group,[135] the American Academy of Diplomacy,[136] and the Council on Foreign Relations.[137]


Personal life

Rice married former ABC News executive producer Ian Officer Cameron[138] on September 12, 1992, at the St. Albans School chapel in Washington D.C.[17] They met as students at Stanford[139] and have two children.[14][140] While they have the same surname and have held the same job, Susan Rice and Condoleezza Rice are unrelated. The Hill and others have notably mistaken the Democratic national security advisor for her Republican counterpart.[141]

Honors and awards

Rice was inducted into Stanford's Black Alumni Hall of Fame in 2002.[15] In 2017, President François Hollande named Rice a commander of the Legion of Honour for her contributions to Franco-American relations.[142]

Foreign honors

Foreign honors
Country Date Decoration Post-nominal letters
  France 2017 – Present Commander of the Legion of Honour

Scholastic

University Degrees
Location Date School Degree
  California 1986 Stanford University Honors Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History
  England 1988 New College, Oxford Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in International Relations
  England 1990 New College, Oxford Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil) in International Relations
Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships
Location Date School Position
  England 2014 – Present New College, Oxford Honorary Fellow[143]
  District of Columbia 2017 – Present The School of International Service at American University Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow[144]
  Massachusetts 2017 – Present The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University Senior Fellow[133]

Honorary degrees

Honorary degrees
Location Date School Degree Gave Commencement Address
  Georgia (U.S. state) 2010 Spelman College Doctorate[145] Yes[146]
  District of Columbia 2012 Howard University Doctor of Laws (LL.D)[147] No
  Maine 2018 Bowdoin College Doctor of Laws (LL.D)[148][149] No

Memberships and fellowships

Location Date Organisation Position
  District of Columbia 2002 – 2009 Brookings Institution Senior Fellow

Publications

  • Rice, Susan E. (1990). The Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979–1980: Implications for International Peacekeeping (PhD thesis). New College, Oxford. hdl:10068/472379. ProQuest 301495377.
  • Rice, Susan E.; Graff, Corinne; Pascual, Carlos, eds. (2010). Confronting Poverty: Weak States and U.S. National Security. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-8157-0435-5. OCLC 607553724.
  • Rice, Susan E. (October 8, 2019). Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5011-8997-5. OCLC 1103670293.

See also

References

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Further reading

  • Morris, Lorenzo. "The United Nations and the African American Presence: From Ralph Bunche to Susan Rice." in Charting the range of Black politics (Routledge, 2017) pp. 41-56.

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1997–2001
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This article is about the diplomat For the designer see Suzy Rice For the banker see Susan Rice banker Susan Elizabeth Rice born November 17 1964 is an American diplomat policy advisor and public official serving as Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council since 2021 A member of the Democratic Party Rice served as the 27th U S Ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013 and as the 23rd U S National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2017 Susan Rice22nd Director of the Domestic Policy CouncilIncumbentAssumed office January 20 2021PresidentJoe BidenPreceded byBrooke Rollins acting 23rd United States National Security AdvisorIn office July 1 2013 January 20 2017PresidentBarack ObamaDeputyAntony BlinkenAvril HainesPreceded byThomas E DonilonSucceeded byMichael Flynn27th United States Ambassador to the United NationsIn office January 26 2009 2009 01 26 June 30 2013 2013 06 30 PresidentBarack ObamaDeputyBrooke AndersonRosemary DiCarloPreceded byZalmay KhalilzadSucceeded bySamantha Power12th Assistant Secretary of State for African AffairsIn office October 14 1997 January 20 2001PresidentBill ClintonPreceded byGeorge MooseSucceeded byWalter H Kansteiner IIIPersonal detailsBornSusan Elizabeth Rice 1964 11 17 November 17 1964 age 58 Washington D C U S Political partyDemocraticSpouseIan O Cameron m 1992 wbr Children2Parent s Emmett J Rice father Lois Dickson Rice mother EducationStanford University BA New College Oxford MPhil DPhil OccupationDiplomat politicianSignatureRice was born in Washington D C and attended Stanford University and New College Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar and received a DPhil PhD She served on President Bill Clinton s National Security Council staff from 1993 to 1997 and was the assistant secretary of state for African affairs at the State Department from 1997 to 2001 Appointed at age 32 Rice was at the time the youngest person to have served as a regional assistant secretary of state Rice s tenure saw significant changes in U S Africa policy including the passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act support for democratic transitions in South Africa and Nigeria and an increased U S focus on fighting HIV AIDS A former Brookings Institution fellow Rice served as a foreign policy advisor to Democratic presidential nominees Michael Dukakis John Kerry and Barack Obama After Obama won the 2008 presidential election Rice was nominated as Ambassador to the United Nations The Senate confirmed her by unanimous consent on January 22 2009 During her tenure at the United Nations Rice championed a human rights and anti poverty agenda elevated climate change and LGBT and women s rights as global priorities and committed the U S to agreements such as the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the U N Millennium Development Goals She also defended Israel at the Security Council pushed for tough sanctions against Iran and North Korea and advocated for U S and NATO intervention in Libya in 2011 Mentioned as a possible replacement for retiring United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton in 2012 1 2 Rice withdrew from consideration following controversy related to the 2012 attack on a U S diplomatic facility in Benghazi 3 President Barack Obama instead named her National Security Advisor in 2013 where she supported U S efforts on the Iran nuclear deal of 2015 the Ebola epidemic the reopening to Cuba and the Paris Agreement on climate change In 2021 Rice became the director of the Domestic Policy Council in the Biden administration 4 Contents 1 Early life 2 Early career 3 Clinton administration 1993 2001 3 1 National Security Council 3 2 Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs 4 Business and think tank activities 2001 2008 5 United States ambassador to the United Nations 2009 2013 5 1 Libyan Civil War 5 2 Syrian Civil War 5 3 2012 Benghazi attack 6 United States National Security Advisor 2013 2017 6 1 Middle East 6 2 Africa 6 3 Afghanistan 6 4 China 7 Post Obama administration 2017 2021 7 1 Private sector positions 7 2 Unmasking investigations 7 3 Political positions 7 4 Potential Senate campaign 8 Director of Domestic Policy Council 2021 present 9 Affiliations 10 Personal life 11 Honors and awards 11 1 Foreign honors 11 2 Scholastic 11 3 Honorary degrees 11 4 Memberships and fellowships 12 Publications 13 See also 14 References 15 Further reading 16 External linksEarly life EditRice was born in Washington D C 5 to education policy scholar Lois Rice nee Dickson who helped design the federal Pell Grant subsidy system and who joined the Brookings Institution in 1992 6 and Emmett J Rice 1919 2011 a Cornell University economics professor and the second black governor of the Federal Reserve System 5 Her maternal grandparents were Jamaican immigrants to Portland Maine her paternal grandparents were the descendants of enslaved Africans and from South Carolina 7 8 Her parents divorced when Rice was ten years of age 9 In 1978 her mother married Alfred Bradley Fitt an attorney who at the time was general counsel of the U S Congressional Budget Office Rice said that her parents taught her to never use race as an excuse or advantage and as a young girl she dreamed of becoming the first U S senator from the District of Columbia 5 Rice was a three letter varsity athlete 10 student government president and valedictorian at National Cathedral School in Washington D C a private girls day school 11 She attended Stanford University where she won a Truman Scholarship and graduated with a BA with honors in history in 1986 She was also awarded a National Merit Scholarship and elected Phi Beta Kappa her junior year 12 13 14 Rice attended New College Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship where she earned Master of Philosophy 1988 and Doctor of Philosophy 1990 degrees both in International Relations 14 Her doctoral dissertation was entitled Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe 1979 1980 Implications for International Peacekeeping Chatham House the Royal Institute of International Affairs honored her dissertation as the UK s most distinguished in international relations 5 15 During her time at Oxford Rice was a member of the Oxford University Women s Basketball Team 16 Early career EditRice served as a foreign policy aide to Michael Dukakis during his campaign in the 1988 presidential election She was a management consultant at McKinsey amp Company a global management consulting firm from 1990 to early 1992 Rice worked in McKinsey s Toronto office 17 Clinton administration 1993 2001 EditRice served in the Clinton administration in various capacities at the National Security Council NSC from 1993 to 1997 as director for international organizations and peacekeeping from 1993 to 1995 and as special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs from 1995 to 1997 and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997 to 2001 Rice s tenure saw significant changes in U S Africa policy including the passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act support for democratic transitions in South Africa and Nigeria and an increased U S focus on fighting the HIV AIDS pandemic 7 201 204 National Security Council Edit At the time of the 1994 Rwandan genocide Rice reportedly said If we use the word genocide and are seen as doing nothing what will be the effect on the November election She denied the quote but acknowledged the mistakes made at the time and felt that a debt needed repaying 18 7 152 The inability or failure of the Clinton administration to do anything about the genocide would form her later views on possible military interventions 19 She said of the experience I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again I would come down on the side of dramatic action going down in flames if that was required 20 Later in 2012 during an interview with The New Republic Rice stated To suggest that I m repenting for Rwanda or that I m haunted by that or that I don t sleep at night because of that or that every policy I ve implemented subsequently is driven by that is garbage 21 Timothy M Carney former U S ambassador to Sudan co authored an op ed in 2002 claiming that in 1997 Sudan offered to turn over its intelligence on bin Laden but that Rice together with then NSC terrorism specialist Richard A Clarke successfully lobbied for continuing to bar U S officials from engaging with the Khartoum government 22 Similar allegations were made by Vanity Fair contributing editor David Rose 23 and Richard Miniter author of Losing Bin Laden 24 The allegations against Rice were determined to be unfounded by the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9 11 and the 9 11 Commission which found no evidence that Sudan ever made an offer to share intelligence on bin Laden 7 Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Edit Secretary of State Madeleine Albright a longtime mentor and family friend to Rice urged Clinton to appoint Rice as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in 1997 5 At a confirmation hearing chaired by Senator John Ashcroft Rice who attended the hearing along with her infant son whom she was then nursing made a great impression on senators from both parties and sailed through the confirmation process 5 In the context of the Rwandan Ugandan AFDL and Angolan invasion of Zaire later known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1996 and overthrow of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko Rice is alleged to have said that Anything s better than Mobutu 25 According to Gerard Prunier a staffer to the Assistant Secretary said that the only thing we have to do is look the other way with respect to regional intervention in the conflict 26 New York Times correspondent Howard W French said that according to his sources Rice herself made the remark 27 On July 7 1998 Rice was a member of an American delegation to visit detained Nigerian president elect Basorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola During this meeting Abiola suffered a fatal heart attack 28 Rice supported U S efforts to reach both the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement in the Congo and the Lome Peace Accord in Sierra Leone 29 Some observers criticized the Sierra Leone agreement as too indulgent of the Revolutionary United Front RUF and for bringing the war criminal Foday Sankoh into government leading to the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1313 which blamed the RUF for the continuing conflict in the west African country 30 Rice played a major role in peace negotiations between Ethiopia and Eritrea during the Eritrean Ethiopian War leading to the Algiers Agreement in 2000 ending the conflict For her efforts she was named a co recipient of the White House s Samuel Nelson Drew Memorial Award for distinguished contributions to the formation of peaceful cooperative relationships between nations alongside Gayle Smith and Anthony Lake 31 7 183 Rice had a contentious relationship with State Department veteran Richard Holbrooke whom she considered to be meddling on her turf and who in return felt she was rising too quickly in U S diplomatic ranks 32 33 Business and think tank activities 2001 2008 Edit Susan E Rice middle at the USCIRF hearings November 27 2001 Rice was managing director and principal at Intellibridge from 2001 to 2002 34 35 From 2002 to 2009 she was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution where she focused on U S foreign policy weak and failing states the implications of global poverty and transnational threats to security 36 Michael E O Hanlon and Ivo Daalder two Brookings colleagues of Rice at the time said that Rice consistently opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq in the run up to the war 37 In 2012 columnist Peter Beinart reviewed a series of NPR interviews with Rice in late 2002 and early 2003 and concluded that Rice s position on war was equivocal 38 39 For example in a December 2002 NPR interview Rice said It s clear that Iraq poses a major threat It s clear that its weapons of mass destruction need to be dealt with forcefully and that s the path we re on I think the question becomes whether we can keep the diplomatic balls in the air and not drop any even as we move forward as we must on the military side The George W Bush administration frankly owes the American public a much fuller and more honest assessment of what the costs will be of the actual conflict as well as the aftermath the post conflict reconstruction And the costs are going to be huge 38 37 40 In her memoir Rice wrote Long experienced with the menace of Al Qaeda I was one of the very few scholars at Brookings to openly oppose the Iraq War From the start I viewed that war of choice as a dangerous diversion from the main objective of defeating Al Qaeda globally and in Afghanistan 7 212 Shortly after the war began Rice warned that the U S commitment to rebuilding Iraq would likely last for many years 41 During the 2004 presidential campaign Rice served as a foreign policy adviser to John Kerry 42 Rice went on leave from the Brookings Institution to serve as a senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign She was one of the first high profile foreign policy staffers to sign onto Obama s campaign as most of her peers had supported Hillary Clinton during the presidential primaries 32 Rice criticized Obama s Republican opponent in the campaign John McCain calling his policies reckless and dismissing the Arizona senator s trip to Iraq as strolling around the market in a flak jacket 43 On November 5 2008 Rice was named to the advisory board of the Obama Biden transition 44 United States ambassador to the United Nations 2009 2013 Edit Rice with Barack Obama and Joe Biden December 2008 On December 1 2008 President elect Obama announced that he would nominate Rice to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations 45 46 a position which he restored to cabinet level 47 Reportedly Rice had wanted the post of national security advisor which instead went to retired United States Marine Corps general James L Jones 32 Rice meets with Myanmar s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi September 2012 At her confirmation hearing Rice was introduced by Senator Susan Collins who said I can think of no better messenger than Dr Susan Rice I am honored to present her to this distinguished committee and I enthusiastically endorse her nomination 48 Rice was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on January 22 2009 49 50 Rice became the second youngest person 47 and the first black woman to represent the U S at the UN 51 Rice meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu May 2014 During her tenure at the United Nations Rice championed a human rights and anti poverty agenda elevated climate change and women s rights as global priorities and committed the U S to agreements such as the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the U N Millennium Development Goals citation needed Rice led the fight to advance LGBT rights at the U N Human Rights Council and was recognized for her staunch defense of Israel at the Security Council 52 53 Rice won praise for leading the Security Council to impose the toughest sanctions to date on Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs and for reaffirming U S commitment to the UN and multilateralism 54 Three Security Council diplomats took issue with Rice s negotiating style calling it rude and overly blunt while others attributed those criticisms to sexism According to David Rothkopf of Foreign Policy Rice could be challenging to work with due to her toughness in the mold of James Baker or Henry Kissinger but had the asset of a close relationship with the U S president and proved to be an effective policymaker Some human rights activists took issue with Rice and U S foreign policy generally in 2012 for working against UN statements that criticized Rwanda for supporting a rebel group in Congo known for committing atrocities 55 Libyan Civil War Edit As the 2011 Libyan Civil War progressed the United States and its allies offered a choice for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his aides step down from power or face an international response Rice offered some of the toughest rhetoric toward Gaddafi criticizing his denials of atrocities against his own citizens as frankly delusional 56 In a closed door Security Council meeting in April 2011 Rice reportedly stated that Gaddafi loyalists engaged in atrocities including terrorizing the population with sexual violence and that Gaddafi s troops has been issued Viagra 57 Investigations by Amnesty International Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders contradicted Rice and stated they did not find first hand evidence that mass rapes had occurred as Rice had claimed 58 59 60 Together with National Security Council figure Samantha Power who already supported the U S led military intervention in Libya and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who came to support it the three overcame internal opposition from Defense Secretary Robert Gates security adviser Thomas E Donilon and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to have the administration advance a UN proposal to impose a no fly zone over Libya and authorize other military actions as necessary 19 61 On March 17 2011 the UK France and Lebanon joined the U S to vote for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 while Brazil Germany and India joined permanent Security Council members China and Russia in abstaining Rice and Clinton played major roles in gaining approval for the resolution 19 62 Rice said we are interested in a broad range of actions that will effectively protect civilians and increase the pressure on the Gaddafi regime to halt the killing and to allow the Libyan people to express themselves in their aspirations for the future freely and peacefully 63 Syrian Civil War Edit In January 2012 after the Russian and Chinese veto of a Security Council resolution calling on Syrian president Bashar al Assad to step down Rice strongly condemned both countries saying They put a stake in the heart of efforts to resolve this conflict peacefully and adding that we the United States are standing with the people of Syria Russia and China are obviously with Assad 64 In her words the United States is disgusted that a couple of members of this Council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose 65 2012 Benghazi attack Edit Main article 2012 Benghazi attack On September 11 2012 a U S diplomatic facility and CIA annex in Benghazi Libya was attacked resulting in the deaths of the United States ambassador to Libya J Christopher Stevens U S Foreign Service information management officer Sean Smith and two former Navy SEALS Glen Doherty and Tyrone S Woods On September 16 Rice appeared on five major interview shows to discuss the attacks Prior to her appearance Rice was provided with talking points from a CIA memo 66 Each of the 11 drafts of CIA talking points maintained that the attack was spontaneously inspired by a violent protest at the American embassy in Cairo Egypt hours earlier which had been triggered by the release of an anti Muslim video 67 Protestors breached and entered the embassy compound 68 During the hours before the Benghazi attack Egyptian satellite television networks popular in Benghazi had been covering the outrage over the video 69 Since Rice s five television appearances there have been persistent accusations that she had intentionally misled the public However none of the ten Benghazi investigations conducted by Congress six by Republican controlled House committees determined she had The Republican controlled House Intelligence Committee s two year investigation found that CIA analysts had erred and that there was no conclusive evidence showing that Rice or any other government official acted in bad faith or intentionally misled the American people 70 A group of 97 House Republicans sent a letter to Obama on November 19 to say Rice s statements were misleading and that she should accordingly not be considered a candidate to succeed Hillary Clinton in 2013 as Secretary of State 71 Some Republican senators who would have had a vote on whether to confirm Rice also voiced objections and said their meetings with Rice at the end of November 2012 did not ease their concerns 72 73 74 On December 13 2012 in a letter to Obama Rice asked him to remove her name from consideration for Secretary of State 3 United States National Security Advisor 2013 2017 Edit Rice and President Barack Obama meet with Saudi Arabia s minister of the national guard Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah November 19 2014 Rice was picked to succeed Tom Donilon as National Security Advisor following Donilon s resignation on June 5 2013 75 The position of National Security Advisor does not require Senate approval 76 Rice was sworn in on July 1 2013 77 During her tenure she supported major U S efforts on the Iran nuclear deal of 2015 Ebola epidemic reopening to Cuba fight against the Islamic State and Paris Agreement on climate change President Obama and Rice speaking with Russian president Vladimir Putin and Putin s interpreter while attending the G20 Summit in Antalya Turkey the photo was not taken during an official meeting November 15 2015 In releasing the 2015 National Security Strategy Rice said that the United States was pursuing an ambitious yet achievable agenda overseas She argued that U S leadership had been essential for success on issues including Ebola 78 Iran s nuclear program and sanctioning Russia over Ukraine The document formed a blueprint for foreign policy defense and national security for the last two years of Obama s second term It had previously been updated in 2010 In a letter outlining the strategy Obama said that the U S would always defend our interests and uphold our commitments to allies and partners adding But we have to make hard choices among many competing priorities and we must always resist the overreach that comes when we make decisions based upon fear 79 Middle East Edit Rice criticized human rights violations in U S aligned Egypt and condemned the August 2013 Rabaa massacre in which Egyptian security forces killed over 1 000 people during mass anti government protests Her position at times contradicted that of Secretary of State John Kerry 80 81 In response Rice led a review of U S assistance to Egypt which resulted in the cancellation of planned joint military exercises and suspension of arms shipments 7 351 Rice was the lone dissenter in Obama s national security team on his decision to seek congressional authorization for military strikes against Syria s chemical weapons facilities following the Assad regime s use of sarin gas against civilians in August 2013 She argued that the administration should move forward with strikes to punish Assad correctly predicting Congress would not grant authorization 82 Rice and Kerry later worked to pursue a diplomatic solution with Russia instead This effort led to United Nations Security Council Resolution 2118 which compelled Syria to destroy its declared chemical weapons stockpile and join the Chemical Weapons Convention Under the agreement 1 300 metric tons of chemical weapons were removed from Syria under international observation Nevertheless the Assad regime either obtained or produced additional sarin gas for renewed chemical attacks in 2017 83 In May 2014 Rice traveled to Israel for meetings with Israeli officials in which nuclear talks with Iran were discussed Rice s visit her first as National Security Advisor came after peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians collapsed The Obama administration made clear that Rice s trip was part of regularly scheduled talks and that the stalled Middle East peace discussions were not on the agenda 84 Rice was criticized by some for intensifying the Obama administration s conflicts with Israel during her time as National Security Advisor Dennis Ross one of Obama s Middle East advisors criticized Rice s combative mind set as opposed to her predecessor Tom Donilon who played a more conciliatory role Ross wrote that after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu s public reprimand of the Obama administration s Iran negotiations Rice relayed to Abraham Foxman that in her view the Israeli leader did everything but use the N word in describing the president 85 86 However in July 2014 Rice expressed support for Israel s right to defend itself during the 2014 Israel Gaza conflict She stated When countries single out Israel for unfair treatment at the UN it isn t just a problem for Israel it is a problem for all of us 87 In 2015 Rice criticized Netanyahu for agreeing to speak to Congress about Iran s nuclear program without coordinating with the Obama administration 88 She negotiated a new memorandum of understanding between the U S and Israel in 2016 for 38 billion in military assistance the largest such package in Israel s history 89 7 430 The Obama administration supported the Saudi and Emirati led intervention in Yemen and blockade of Yemen but Rice opposed a coalition attack on the port city of Al Hudaydah and personally called UAE crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed to stop the planned offensive 90 Africa Edit Rice supported South Sudanese independence and initial U S aid to the government of president Salva Kiir Mayardit 91 92 When the South Sudanese Civil War broke out in 2013 between President Kiir s forces and forces led by vice president Riek Machar the U S continued its support for the Kiir administration despite reports from U S embassy staff of atrocities committed by the government 93 94 Rice ultimately joined calls for an arms embargo against South Sudan in 2016 but the measure failed to win passage at the UN Security Council 95 96 397 Rice was perceived as close to Rwanda s president Paul Kagame 97 98 Some critics of the Obama administration s Africa policy faulted Rice for what they viewed as the U S s failure to take action against Rwanda for its role in the Kivu conflict 99 Afghanistan Edit On a visit to Pakistan in 2015 Rice warned Pakistani political and military leaders that attacks in Afghanistan by militants based in Pakistan threatened regional security Rice also delivered an invitation from Obama for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to visit the United States in October The meetings came at a tense time for Pakistan s relations with neighboring Afghanistan and archrival India along with uncertainty over whether the United States would release 300 million in military aid to Pakistan 100 China Edit In a 2015 speech on China United States relations Rice noted the problems of Chinese intelligence operations in the United States saying This is not a mild irritation It is an economic and national security concern to the United States It puts enormous strain on our bilateral relationship and it is a critical factor in determining the future trajectory of U S China ties 101 102 Post Obama administration 2017 2021 Edit Rice shakes hands with National Security Advisor Designate Michael Flynn on January 10 2017 Rice at the Lyndon B Johnson Presidential Library in 2019 Private sector positions Edit On March 8 2017 Rice became a distinguished visiting research fellow in the School of International Service SIS at American University In her residency she planned to work on her next book and to mentor young SIS students 103 On March 28 2018 Rice was appointed to the board of directors at Netflix 104 Unmasking investigations Edit On April 3 2017 Eli Lake reported in Bloomberg View that as National Security Advisor Rice had requested that the identities of some Americans mentioned in intelligence reports related to the campaign and presidential transition of Donald Trump be unmasked 105 Any request for an American s identity to be unmasked required approval by the National Security Agency the agency s director Michael Rogers said it evaluated each request to determine Is there a valid need to know in the course of the execution of their official duties and Is the identification necessary to truly understand the context of the intelligence value that the report is designed to generate 106 Rice said that she asked for identities of U S persons to be revealed to provide context to the intelligence reports and not for political purposes 107 108 The report of Rice unmasking Trump officials followed an announcement by Devin Nunes the Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee that he had seen reports indicating that Mr Trump or his associates might have been incidentally swept up in the monitoring of foreigners 108 The committee was investigating both Trump s ties to Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election and Trump s allegations that Obama had Trump Tower under surveillance 105 Lake s April 3 report of the unmasking specified Rice s requests to unmask the names of Trump transition officials do not vindicate Trump s own tweets from March 4 in which he accused Obama of illegally tapping Trump Tower 105 Nevertheless some Republicans called for an investigation into the unmasking while Democrats said that the unmasking story was a diversion from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections 108 After members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees were able to view the material on which Nunes based his assertions both Democrats and Republicans familiar with the material said that there was no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal 109 110 111 Congressional intelligence sources called Rice s unmasking requests normal and appropriate for a national security adviser 109 In August 2017 Eli Lake reported in Bloomberg View that Rice s successor as national security adviser H R McMaster has concluded that Rice did nothing wrong 112 Rice testified to the House Intelligence Committee in September 2017 that she requested the unmasking because of a redacted intelligence report concerning an undisclosed visit to the United States by United Arab Emirates crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in December 2016 During the visit al Nahyan met with Trump campaign advisors Steve Bannon Michael Flynn and Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in New York Rice s testimony appeared to allay the concerns of Republicans with Committee member Mike Conaway stating She was a good witness answered all our questions I m not aware of any reason to bring her back 113 114 In May 2020 Attorney General Bill Barr appointed federal prosecutor John Bash to examine unmasking conducted by the Obama administration 115 The inquiry concluded in October 2020 with no findings of substantive wrongdoing 116 Bash s 52 page report previously classified top secret was released in May 2022 Bash wrote he had found no evidence that any unmasking requests were made for any political or otherwise improper reasons during the 2016 election period or the ensuing presidential transition 117 Political positions Edit Rice criticized the United States close relationship with Saudi Arabia despite the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi Saudi Arabia s human rights abuses Saudi Arabia s diplomatic dispute with Canada Saudi Arabian led intervention in Yemen and Saudi Arabian led blockade against Qatar 118 119 Rice also criticized Trump s decision to withdraw U S troops from Syria which critics say gave Turkey the green light to invade and occupy northern Syria and attack Kurdish forces who had assisted the U S in the destruction of the Islamic State 120 Rice has criticized Israeli proposals to annex parts of the West Bank and Jordan Valley stating that such a move would make it more difficult to sustain traditionally bipartisan support for Israel in the United States 121 Rice takes the view that a two state solution is the only way to keep Israel both a Jewish and democratic state 121 Potential Senate campaign Edit After U S Senator Susan Collins from Maine voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Rice publicly considered challenging Collins in 2020 122 123 before announcing in April 2019 that she would not run for Senate 124 Director of Domestic Policy Council 2021 present Edit Rice speaks from the White House briefing room in January 2021 In July 2020 it was widely reported that Rice was under consideration to be Joe Biden s vice presidential running mate in the 2020 general election 125 However Kamala Harris was selected as Biden s running mate on August 11 2020 On September 5 2020 Rice was announced to be a member of the advisory council of the Biden Harris Transition Team which planned the Biden s presidential transition 126 127 In November she was named a candidate for Secretary of State in the Biden Administration 128 Biden chose Rice to head the Domestic Policy Council 129 This was considered a surprise by many political commentators noting her experience in foreign policy over domestic policy 130 In April 2023 journalist Hannah Dreier suggested in a New York Times article that Rice was among the leading White House officials who may have been negligent in response to the uncovered migrant child labor crisis 131 On April 24 2023 President Biden announced that Rice will be departing from her position as director of the Domestic Policy Council on May 26 2023 132 Affiliations EditRice is a distinguished visiting research fellow at American University s School of International Service and non resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University s John F Kennedy School of Government 103 133 She is also a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times 134 She is currently on the board of Netflix and is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group 135 the American Academy of Diplomacy 136 and the Council on Foreign Relations 137 Personal life EditRice married former ABC News executive producer Ian Officer Cameron 138 on September 12 1992 at the St Albans School chapel in Washington D C 17 They met as students at Stanford 139 and have two children 14 140 While they have the same surname and have held the same job Susan Rice and Condoleezza Rice are unrelated The Hill and others have notably mistaken the Democratic national security advisor for her Republican counterpart 141 Honors and awards EditRice was inducted into Stanford s Black Alumni Hall of Fame in 2002 15 In 2017 President Francois Hollande named Rice a commander of the Legion of Honour for her contributions to Franco American relations 142 Foreign honors Edit Foreign honorsCountry Date Decoration Post nominal letters France 2017 Present Commander of the Legion of HonourThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items July 2020 Scholastic Edit University DegreesLocation Date School Degree California 1986 Stanford University Honors Bachelor of Arts BA in History England 1988 New College Oxford Master of Philosophy M Phil in International Relations England 1990 New College Oxford Doctor of Philosophy D Phil in International RelationsChancellor visitor governor rector and fellowshipsLocation Date School Position England 2014 Present New College Oxford Honorary Fellow 143 District of Columbia 2017 Present The School of International Service at American University Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow 144 Massachusetts 2017 Present The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University Senior Fellow 133 This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items July 2020 Honorary degrees Edit Honorary degreesLocation Date School Degree Gave Commencement Address Georgia U S state 2010 Spelman College Doctorate 145 Yes 146 District of Columbia 2012 Howard University Doctor of Laws LL D 147 No Maine 2018 Bowdoin College Doctor of Laws LL D 148 149 NoThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items July 2020 Memberships and fellowships Edit Location Date Organisation Position District of Columbia 2002 2009 Brookings Institution Senior FellowThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items August 2020 Publications EditRice Susan E 1990 The Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe 1979 1980 Implications for International Peacekeeping PhD thesis New College Oxford hdl 10068 472379 ProQuest 301495377 Rice Susan E Graff Corinne Pascual Carlos eds 2010 Confronting Poverty Weak States and U S National Security Washington DC Brookings Institution Press ISBN 978 0 8157 0435 5 OCLC 607553724 Rice Susan E October 8 2019 Tough Love My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For New York Simon amp Schuster ISBN 978 1 5011 8997 5 OCLC 1103670293 See also EditList of African American United States Cabinet members List of female United States Cabinet membersReferences Edit Susan Rice likely Hillary Clinton replacement CBS News November 12 2012 Archived from the original on January 12 2013 Retrieved November 13 2012 DeYoung Karen Miller Greg November 13 2012 Obama considering John Kerry for job of defense secretary The 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Retrieved July 30 2020 Bowdoin to Award Three Honorary Degrees at Commencement Bowdoin News Archive Archived from the original on August 7 2020 Retrieved July 30 2020 Further reading EditMorris Lorenzo The United Nations and the African American Presence From Ralph Bunche to Susan Rice in Charting the range of Black politics Routledge 2017 pp 41 56 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Susan Rice Wikisource has original works by or about Susan Rice Wikimedia Commons has media related to Susan Rice Susan Rice on Twitter Appearances on C SPAN Susan Rice at IMDb Susan Rice collected news and commentary at The New York Times Political officesPreceded byGeorge Moose Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs1997 2001 Succeeded byWalter KansteinerPreceded byTom Donilon National Security Advisor2013 2017 Succeeded byMike FlynnPreceded byBrooke RollinsActing Director of the Domestic Policy Council2021 present IncumbentDiplomatic postsPreceded byZalmay Khalilzad United States Ambassador to the United Nations2009 2013 Succeeded byRosemary DiCarloActing Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Susan Rice amp oldid 1151783296, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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