[RedEyeJack]

It is a good scenario but the WH needs to give Dr Rice a through preparation... She needs to be coached like a Clintonista on what to answer and how to answer. When to act remorseful and when to act insulted... This will be the performance of her life and she needs to go in fully armed and ready to face Ben Viniste and the throughly partisan Gorlick, ready to give them the distain they deserve.

[Law is not justice but process]

She needs to be prepared for sure, but I would stay away from the terms "coached" and "Clitonista." I always thought Clinton Administration officials testified in an over-scripted fashion and were less believable in consequence. Unlike the Clitonistas, further, the truth is mostly on her side: it is clear terrorism was an important priority to Bush (and that is the simple message she must get across).

It is sad that the Bush Administration had to rewrite the anti-terrorism strategy of the Clinton years (the ineffecualness of which was made clear by the Cole bombing and the 9/11 plotting, which began long before Bush was elected), but the public will understand the truth that 9/11 happened before the new strategy could be put into effect. She must come across as truthful and not coached, but also as thoroughly prepared.

[mabelkitty]

You don't coach someone who will fight back using truth.
We don't Clintonista-prep.