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Its mission is, in part, "to ensure the most effective counter-proliferation capabilities of the United States and response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the ongoing threat of terrorist activity." With regards to Iraq, "the Commission shall specifically examine the Intelligence Community's intelligence prior to the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom and compare it with the findings of the Iraq Survey Group and other relevant agencies or organizations concerning the capabilities, intentions, and activities of Iraq relating to the design, development, manufacture, acquisition, possession, proliferation, transfer, testing, potential or threatened use, or use of Weapons of Mass Destruction and related means of delivery." The commission is required to make its report by March 31, 2005.

Commission members are:

• Charles Robb, Democrat, former U.S. Senator and governor of Virginia, co-chair
• Laurence Silberman, Republican, former U.S. Court of Appeals judge, served in Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations, co-chair
• John McCainAlternative meanings: John S. McCain, Sr. McCain, Jr. John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician. Considered a maverick Republican, McCain has been a U. Senator from Arizona since 1987, winning re-election in 1992, 1998, and 2, Republican, U.S. Senator from Arizona
• Lloyd CutlerCutler is an American attorney. Cutler served as legel counsel in the Carter and Clinton presidential administrations. Born in New York City, the son of a trial lawyer, Cutler graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1936 and a law degre, former White House counsel to Presidents Jimmy CarterJames Earl Carter, Jr. born October 1, 1924) was the 39th ( 1977 1981) President of the United States. He had previously served one term as Governor of Georgia. Carter's administration marked the decline of U. power overseas and an economic recession. and Bill ClintonWilliam Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) is a U. politician who served two terms as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A moderate Democrat who was elected Governor of Arkansas five times, Cli.
• Patricia WaldPatricia Wald Patricia McGowan Wald is an American judge. Wald served a the chief judge for the U. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Wald earned her l, Democrat, former appellate judge.
• Rick LevinRichard Charles Levin (b. 1947) is an American economist, who has served as president of Yale University since 1993. Born in San Francisco, California, Levin graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with a B. in history. He received a Bachelor of Letter, president of Yale UniversityYale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third oldest American collegiate institution (or fourth, if St. John's College, Annapolis is included) and one of the most prestigious in the world. The Univer
• Retired Admiral Bill StudemanWilliam O. Studeman is a retired admiral of the United States Navy and former deputy director of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency. Between 1988 and 1992 he was director of the NSA. On 6 February 2004, Studeman was appointed to the Iraq Intel, former CIA deputy director
• Charles M. Vest, president of MIT
• Henry S. Rowen , former assistant defense secretary.

The first seven members of the panel were appointed on February 6, 2004, the date of the executive order which created it. The two final members, Vest and Rowen, were appointed on February 13.

Days before the American commission was announced, the government of the United Kingdom, the U.S.'s primary ally during the Iraq War, announced a similar commission to investigate British intelligence, known as the Butler Inquiry.

The commission is independent and separate from the 9-11 Commission.

see also: Iraq Survey Group, Office of Special Plans, Operation Rockingham