WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says an exhaustive White House vetting process is to blame for the Obama administration's failure to so far name a person to run the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Clinton told USAID employees Monday that said several people had turned down the job due to overly burdensome financial and personal disclosure requirements that she called a "nightmare."

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