United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s choice to become National Security Adviser, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 5, 2013, where the president made the announcement.
Johnny IsaksonWASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s nomination of Susan Rice as his new national security adviser Wednesday provoked a new of chorus of Republican outrage over the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
But two area Republican senators weren’t singing in the choir.
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker had a phone conversation spoke with Rice, the United Nations ambassador, who has served as the GOP’s punching bag since September’s attacks in Benghazi.
Corker said in a statement the two “had a very good conversation” about Obama’s decision.
Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pledged to work with Rice on “shaping important foreign policy and national security issues.”