WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s choice to fill the number-two slot at NATO in Brussels is drawing fierce opposition — but not from allies in Europe or Canada. Instead, it’s U.S. congressional Republicans who are taking aim at Rose Gottemoeller, a high-ranking U.S. diplomat, in a fight that reflects broader partisan tensions in Washington over U.S. policies toward Russia.
Days after Secretary of State John Kerry sent word that he would be nominating Gottemoeller to take the NATO deputy secretary-general post when the current occupant, Alexander “Sandy” Vershbow, departs later this year, a group of Republicans in the U.S. House wrote …read more
Source: European Voice
