Victoria Nuland
Victoria Nuland | |
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| Spokesperson for the United States Department of State | |
| Assumed office May 2011 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Philip J. Crowley |
| 18th United States Permanent Representative to NATO | |
| In office June 20, 2005 – May 2, 2008 | |
| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | R. Nicholas Burns |
| Succeeded by | Kurt Volker |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) New York City, New York |
| Spouse | Robert Kagan |
Victoria Nuland (born 1961) is a US diplomat and since June 2011 has been spokesperson for the United States Department of State.[1]
Career
Nuland has had a long career in the Foreign Service and has worked for both Democratic and Republican administrations. During the Bill Clinton administration, Nuland was chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott before moving on to serve as deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs. During the George W. Bush administration, she served as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and then as U.S. ambassador to NATO. During the Barack Obama administration, she was special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe before assuming her current position as State Department spokesperson in summer 2011.[2]
Controversy
Nuland has emerged as one of the key figures who has been accused of initiating a cover up of the 2012 Benghazi attack. After reading the first draft of the State Department talking points that stated that the incident was a coordinated terrorist attack, she sent message stating, "...we're worried that members of Congress will use the taking points to criticize the State Department for not paying attention to agency warnings about needing more security."[citation needed] After this memo UN Ambassador Susan Rice was given untrue talking points that formed the basis of her misleading statements on This Week with George Stephanopoulos,[3] Meet the Press,[4] State of the Union with Candy Crowley,[5] and Fox News Sunday.[6][7]
Personal life
Nuland is the daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor Sherwin B. Nuland, the family's original surname being Nudelman. She graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979 and has a B.A. from Brown University. Nuland is married to historian Robert Kagan, with whom she has two children. Nuland speaks Russian, French, and some Chinese.
References
- ^ "Bureau of Public Affairs Front Office Changes".
- ^ "Victoria Nuland to be State Department spokesman". Foreign Policy. May 16, 2011.
- ^ "'This Week' Transcript: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice". ABC News. September 16, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
- ^ "September 16: Benjamin Netanyahu, Susan Rice, Keith Ellison, Peter King, Bob Woodward, Jeffrey Goldberg, Andrea Mitchell". NBC News. September 16, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
- ^ "Interview with Benjamin Netanyahu; Interview with Susan Rice; Interview with Nancy Pelosi; Interview with Rudy Giuliani". CNN. September 16, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
- ^ "Amb. Susan Rice, Rep. Mike Rogers discuss violence against Americans in the Middle East". Fox News. September 16, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
- ^ Tapper, Jake (September 16, 2012). "Ambassador Susan Rice: Libya Attack Not Premeditated". ABC News. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
External links
- Official Biography - from the U.S. State Department (2013)
- Official Biography – from the U.S. State Department (2012) (No longer available-removed from State Department's website)
- Official Biography – from the U.S. State Department (2008)
- Victoria Nuland biography – from the U.S. NATO Mission website
- C-SPAN Q&A interview with Nuland, June 18, 2006
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