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Commission on Redundant Commissions. Did we really need a new commission to tell us this? More intelligence sharing and the CIA screwed up on Iraq pre-war intelligence? Thanks, WMD panel. Next? Meantime, the Senate Intel committee has defaulted on its promise to release the findings of its investigation of administration influence on those faulty pre-war intel estimates. Update: A reader writes, regarding the above:
Why on earth did you not take the next step?
Without the political angle - and without the threat of formal future study of the political angle - the WMD commission will cement the Bush Administration's line that any and all misdeeds and errors regarding pre-war intelligence came out of the intel community. The WMD commission is going to report the "what" not the "why" of the pre-war intel.
In plainer English, we're going to hear "The CIA exaggerated the nuclear threat" when the more complete sentence might read "The CIA exaggerated the nuclear threat under pressure from the OSP and the Vice President's office."
And we're going to be one step further away from ever getting the low-down on the "why."