But the truth it appears...
Why on earth is it a "long-standing principle that sitting National Security Advisers do not testify before the Congress"? Is it because Congress is one of the few places they'd have to tell the truth? Servants of the people should be answerable to their masters, if not they should do the honorable thing. I'd settle for resignation, but ritual disembowelment is fine too.
Ms Rice can consider herself a member of the enemy in my ongoing War Against Bullshit.