Panel Holds Hearings on U.S. Intelligence (report due in March)

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Bush established the panel in February at the height of criticism over the failure to find Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, which had been publicly declared by the administration as the main reason for removing the Iraqi dictator from power. The panel is scheduled to submit its report and recommendations next March. The Senate and House intelligence committees will produce their reports this year on the intelligence failures associated with the Iraqi weapons program.

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Wednesday's discussion concerned Iraq and a controversial October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). It concluded that Hussein's government had chemical and biological weapons and had reconstituted its nuclear program.

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The commission released a statement by its co-chairmen, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Laurence H. Silberman and former senator Charles S. Robb (D-Va.), which said: "Due to the sensitive nature of our work, which concerns highly classified matters of national security, these meetings are not open to the public."

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61811-2004May27.html?referrer=email

Due to the senstive nature...we can't open the meeting because too many heads would roll, ie Tenet, Condi, Cheney, Etc. This is a joke...:eyes: