Panel on Prewar Intelligence Filled Out as Bush Names Two
President Bush on Thursday named the final two members of the commission that will investigate prewar intelligence on Iraq, adding the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former Pentagon official.
Charles M. Vest has been MIT’s president since 1990. Henry S. Rowen, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, was an assistant defense secretary from 1989 to 1991 and a deputy assistant defense secretary from 1961 to 1964.
Bush, under fire about whether Iraq had banned weapons before the U.S.-led invasion, reversed course last week and created the nine-member bipartisan commission.
The panel has until March 31, 2005, to issue its report.
The commission is led by Laurence H. Silberman, a former federal appeals court judge and ambassador to Yugoslavia, and Charles S. Robb, a former two-term Democratic senator and Virginia governor.
The other members are: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.); Lloyd Cutler, former White House counsel to Presidents Carter and Clinton; former federal judge Patricia M. Wald; Yale University president Richard C. Levin; and retired Adm. William O. Studeman, former deputy director of the CIA.
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