This explains why this was and remains a failure of foreign policy, exactly as Ben Rhodes feared in his email to Rice.
Never about a video, it was foolishly used as a diversion from their disastrous foreign policy, and Rhodes knew it, feared it and wanted nothing to lead to a discussion of it. Desperation.
Therefore, failure of our entire ME foreign policy is exactly where this Select Committee needs to go.
Yes, it should. That will be no small subject when they get into it.