Commission Members
Commission members are:
- Laurence Silberman, Republican, retired U.S. Court of Appeals judge, Deputy Attorney General under Presidents Nixon and Ford, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, et al., co-Chairman
- Charles Robb, Democrat, former U.S. Senator from and Governor of Virginia, co-Chairman
- John McCain, Republican, U.S. Senator from Arizona
- Lloyd Cutler, Democrat, former White House counsel to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler changed status to "Of Counsel" shortly after the Commission formed.
- Patricia Wald, Democrat, retired Judge of the DC Court of Appeals.
- Rick Levin, President of Yale University.
- Retired Admiral Bill Studeman, former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, Director of NSA.
- Charles M. Vest, former President of MIT
- Henry S. Rowen, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and President of RAND.
The first seven members of the panel were appointed on February 6, 2004, the date of the executive order which created it. The two final members, Vest and Rowen, were appointed on February 13.
Days before the American commission was announced, the government of the United Kingdom, the U.S.'s primary ally during the Iraq War, announced a similar commission to investigate British intelligence, known as the Butler Inquiry.
The commission was independent and separate from the 9-11 Commission.
Read more about this topic: Iraq Intelligence Commission
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