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She need do no such thing. She was doing her job and doing it properly.
If anybody "misled" the American People, it is the CIA who provided the talking points. They have already stated that in their supposedly closed session.
Furthermore, all this about "misleading" the American People is bullshit.
1. Like it or not, there is some information that Americans do NOT have a right to know or a need to know. Classified information is available on a "need to know" basis and only to people with security clearance. The general public does not have security clearance and did not have a need to know the details of the investigation at that point.
2. The investigation was ongoing. Releasing information at that time would have hampered the investigation, and possibly undermined it.
3. What was to be gained by prematurely outing the results of the investigation? Nothing but a ruined investigation and, still worse, inability to get the perpetrators.
Seriously, how many fucking covert CIA operations and operatives does the GOP have to destroy before people tell them to stfu?
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The government answers to the people. That was true when bush/condi/rummy/powell etc dropped the ball on and before 9/11, blaming intel, and when they parlayed that failure into the needless Iraq war, the "Patriot" Act, etc. And it is true now.
The government is accountable to the people they serve. That didn't change just because a Democrat is running the show.
Btw, there surely isn't anything missing from your talking points. However, if the Senate, the House, and the media are still unclear on what happened, and why the administration falsely placed blame on a bad youtube video when it seems clear it was known from the beginning that that was not the case, you'll forgive me for not just taking your word for how and why things happened the way they did.
Another question that needs to be answered is if requests for military backup were made and subsequently denied.
Rice and Hillary should both testify. The people deserve to know the truth, from those responsible for the safety of those serving the country, and those who called the shots and made false statements afterwards. The issue is far larger than partisan posturing.
There is a huge difference between an SOS stating "How could we have known" while reading headline to intel report that states unequivocally "al Qaeda planning attack" with details inside and a UN Ambassador stating intelligence that says "It started with the video" and that "it's still under investigation.
Not to mention the huge difference between lying to start a war and stating that what the intelligence shows so far and that it is *still under investigation.*
The hearings are *still underway.* There is no reason to smear Susan Rice when the hearings are *still underway.* And so far the hearings have shown that the statements she made were aligned with what was believed at the time. There is nothing incongruous between her statements on record and the talking points the CIA gave her.
Susan Rice's public statements are on record and the talking points she was provided are also on record. She is an Ambassador, not SOS or CIA Director or National Security Advisor or Vice President. She has a different role and different access to information than any of the people you are comparing her to.
Her job as Ambassador does not include speculating, predicting, changing the intel she is handed, gathering the intel, interpreting the intel or even decided how much of the intel is appropriate to release. Her job is as a DIPLOMAT, which means it is primarily to defuse potentially dangerous situations, not throw fuel onto fires or undermine investigations.
What part of that do you not understand? Rhetorical question only, because I honestly don't give a shit what you do or don't understand.
As far as the senators and media not having all the information they demand in the time frame they demand, I'm sorry Sen. John McCain hasn't got all the information he demands when he can't even be bothered to show up at the hearings because he's too busy giving press announcements bitching about how he hasn't been given all the information he demands.
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That's just plain stupid. Rice did her job. Her statements are fully congruent with the information she was provided.
I didn't say Hillary shouldn't testify regarding security at the consulate, nor did I say that others involved shouldn't testify, nor did I say that there shouldn't be hearings. What I said is there is no basis for smearing Rice.
Rice is not involved in maintaining security, nor is she involved in intelligence gathering or interpretation.
I grasp the concept of accountability and transparency. I also grasp the concept of security and "need to know" information, having many decades ago had security clearance and access to secret information as part of my job as an admin at a defense contractor.
The investigation and hearings are underway. It appears so far to be an intelligence failure. At least according to General Patreaus. Furthermore, 2 CIA officials have testified that the administration made no significant changes to the "talking points." The changes were made by the CIA.
But of course, what the fuck would they know, compared to Ambassador Rice, who clearly is hiding something? 
Give it up already. Your attempt to pin this on Ambassador Rice or make it somehow her failure is ridiculous.
Exactly what questions are needed of Rice? We know what she said. We know what her talking points were. What is left? I don't think a witch hunt against the messenger is useful. I think it was just bluster are the part of the GOP and now that the Director of National Intelligence says he changed the talking points, not the administration, McCain's having conniptions about that.
You're falling behind the times. The hearings and investigation have been ongoing. Rice appears to have been dropped as the GOP's target since it has been demonstrated that she did her job, repeated the CIA's talking points, and the CIA and DNI wrote and did the major edits to the talking points. 
