Susan Rice: 20 Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Her

One: In April 1994, Susan Rice was a rising star on the U.S. National Security Council who worked under Richard Clarke. That year, attention turned to a bloody slaughter in Rwanda; the U.S. officials could see that it was genocide, but officially labeling the massacres genocide would mean that the U.S. would be obligated to act under the terms of the 1948 Genocide Convention. Rice raised other concerns as well:

That account comes from an article written by Samantha Power, a former foreign-policy adviser to the Obama campaign, whom the president then appointed to the National Security Council staff. Power also served as a special assistant to the president on human rights.

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One: In April 1994, Susan Rice was a rising star on the U.S. National Security Council who worked under Richard Clarke. That year, attention turned to a bloody slaughter in Rwanda; the U.S. officials could see that it was genocide, but officially labeling the massacres genocide would mean that the U.S. would be obligated to act under the terms of the 1948 Genocide Convention. Rice raised other concerns as well:

That account comes from an article written by Samantha Power, a former foreign-policy adviser to the Obama campaign, whom the president then appointed to the National Security Council staff. Power also served as a special assistant to the president on human rights.