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On March 31, a bipartisan commission led by former Senator Charles Robb (D-Va.) and federal appellate court judge Laurence Silberman, a Republican, reported to President George W. Bush on what went wrong in the intelligence community when it failed to accurately assess that Iraq did not possess stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
The White House-appointed commission also offered recommendations on improving overall U.S. intelligence performance.
For some, the report's conclusions were bound to be of questionable value because the commission's mandate ignored policymakers' actions on the intelligence and the interaction between policymakers ...