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The release of e-mails related to the administration's response to the Benghazi attack show how little of a role United States Ambassador Susan Rice played in the entire controversy, making it easier for the President Obama to tap his longtime friend as National Security Adviser sometime over the next three years.

Susan Rice to become National Security Adviser

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theGRIO REPORT - Susan Rice will be tapped today as President Obama's new National Security Adviser, as the New York Times first reported...
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Former U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) (L) speaks during a personnel announcement in the East Room at the White House as Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan looks on January 7, 2013 in Washington, DC.U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated Hagel for the next Secretary of Defense and Brennan to become the new director of the CIA. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hagel has enough support for US defense secretary

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chuck Hagel secured the necessary votes for the U.S. Senate to confirm him to be the next defense secretary barring any new, damaging information...
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Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) (L) meets with U.S. President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of defense and former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) February 7, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The Senate Armed Services Committee has delayed its vote on the confirmation for Hagel because the committee's review of the nomination is not yet complete. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hagel stalled, but confirmation still expected

Robert Burns, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - By delaying a confirmation vote on Chuck Hagel to be U.S. defense secretary, Senate Republicans have forced Leon Panetta to remain on the job he is eager to give up...
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In this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo Sen. Lindsey Graham, D-S.C., questions former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's Secretary of Defense nominee, during Hagel's confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Lindsey Graham vows to delay Obama's nominees over Libya

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A leading Republican senator said Sunday he would hold up Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominees to head the Pentagon and the CIA...
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Susan Rice

The war against Susan Rice takes toll on GOP

Joy-Ann Reid
OPINION - It was a bad day for the Republican Party, which already has, to put it mildly, an image problem with minorities and women...
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks to reporters after meeting with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, at the U.S. Capitol after meeting with members of the U.S. Senate November 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. Rice has been meeting with members of Congress over the past two days to explain her position on remarks made regarding the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Republicans signal opposition to Rice for State, favor Kerry

Donna Cassata, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - A moderate Republican senator, vital to any White House hopes of getting U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice confirmed as secretary of state, said she couldn't back any nomination until more questions are answered about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya...
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Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin (L) and United States Ambasador to the United Nations Susan Rice talk before a vote on a new U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria at U.N. headquarters on July 19, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Susan Rice continues push to win over Congress skeptics

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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice continued her fight Wednesday to win over skeptics in the Senate who could block her chances at becoming the next U.S. secretary of state..
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United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice (C) votes in favor of a new U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria at U.N. headquarters on July 19, 2012 in New York City. The resolution aimed at ending the violence with non-military sanctions in Syria failed to gather enough votes to pass as Russia and China veto the resolution. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The GOP's anti-Susan Rice campaign

Perry Bacon Jr.
ANALYSIS - Why are Republicans so focused on preventing Susan Rice from becoming the next Secretary of State?...
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Ambassador Susan Rice attends the 2012 Global Leadership Awards Dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street on October 16, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Susan Rice to meet McCain in bid to succeed Clinton

Bradley Klapper and Donna Cassata, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is meeting with key lawmakers in what could be her final pitch for their support if she is nominated to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as the next U.S. secretary of state...
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Ambassador Susan Rice attends the 2012 Global Leadership Awards Dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street on October 16, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Congress to investigate Benghazi 'talking points'

Anne Flaherty, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers want to know who had a hand in creating the Obama administration's now-discredited "talking points" about the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya...
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