Obama gets another Jew confirmed:
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed Victoria Nuland, President Barack Obama's choice as chief U.S. envoy for Europe who was widely criticized for her role in the talking points created after last year's deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya.
U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died in an attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. In the days after the assault, Obama administration officials put together talking points to be used by then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for a series of appearances on the Sunday talk shows and for briefing members of the House Intelligence committee.
Emails sought by congressional Republicans showed that Nuland expressed concern that any mention of prior warnings or the involvement of al-Qaida in the talking points would give congressional Republicans ammunition to attack the administration in the weeks before the presidential election.
She had sought removal of a reference to a CIA warning about the potential for anti-American demonstrations in Cairo and jihadists trying to break into that embassy.
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