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*'''29 November.''' ''Washington Post'' reports Susan Rice's net worth at $20 million. Rice is a career civil servant.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/susan-rice-not-your-typical-diplomat/2012/11/29/c83ac58c-3a6e-11e2-a263-f0ebffed2f15_story.html?utm_term=.0ad1efc38c87</ref>
*'''29 November.''' ''Washington Post'' reports Susan Rice's net worth at $20 million. Rice is a career civil servant.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/susan-rice-not-your-typical-diplomat/2012/11/29/c83ac58c-3a6e-11e2-a263-f0ebffed2f15_story.html?utm_term=.0ad1efc38c87</ref>
===December 2012===
*'''14 December.''' President Obama signs the Magnitsky Act.<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/e18677dc-54d8-11e2-a628-00144feab49a</ref> [[John McCain]] is a chief sponsor.<ref>
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice/dp/1476755744</ref> Russian parliament retaliates banning Americans from adopting Russian children. [[European Union]] stymied, under pressure from the US to pass similar legislation, but with much closer social and economic ties to Russia, fails to act. The incident is seen by some as a provocation for a new, brewing Cold War.
*'''27 December.''' Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, publicly warn of the “back-door search loophole” or "incidental" collection of innocent Americans. Udall says,
{{Quotebox|As it is written, there is nothing to prohibit the intelligence community from searching through a pile of communications, which may have been incidentally or accidentally been collected without a warrant, to deliberately search for the phone calls or e-mails of specific Americans.}}
*'''December.''' Two intelligence-connected sources separately suggest to Attkisson that she’s likely under government surveillance due to her reporting. One source tells her the government has pushed the envelope like never before and that the public would be shocked to “learn the extent that the government is conducting surveillance of private citizens.”
==Syria==
==Syria==