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Sizing Up the Iraq Intelligence Panel

By Brian Naylor

Published February 7, 2004 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 20 years ago.

President Bush has named a bipartisan commission to investigate questions about intelligence gathering in the lead-up to the war in Iraq.

Former Sen. Charles Robb of Virginia, a Democrat, and retired federal judge Laurence Silberman, a Republican, were named to head the panel.

Also asked to take part: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Lloyd Cutler, former White House Counsel to Presidents Carter and Clinton; Rick Levin, the President of Yale University; Adm. Bill Studeman, the former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; and Judge Pat Wald, a former judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals.

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James Woolsey, former director of the CIA during the Clinton administration, speaks with NPR's Brian Naylor about the commission and the scope of its investigation.