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evolved into a direct assault. there are indications that
extremists participated," there's a hedge there, but the
benghazi attack was not referred to as a terrorist event.
however, ambassador rice is a cabinet member, meaning she gets
daily intelligence briefings like the president does, the
content of those not known, but republican senators say that she
misled the public and that they will block her confirmation as
secretary of state. the white house is betting that they can get
at least five republicans to join the democratic majority to get
her through and confirmed, if nominated as secretary. meantime,
cbs has learned that the current secretary of state, hillary
clinton, will go to the hill and answer questions from
congressional investigators, but she's not likely to do that
until the state department's own investigation is complete.
sources close to that investigation say that likely won't happen
until the end of december. >> and they hav