Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

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Fineman reports for NBC and has appeared on most major public affairs shows. Fineman was raised in a Jewish family. He moved to Newsweek in 1980 was named chief political correspondent in 1984 deputy Washington bureau chief in 1993 and senior editor in 1995.

Fineman authored his first book in 2008 The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country. Howard Fineman is an American journalist who is editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group.