Via Bros. Judd:
President Bush was expected to name Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, to a bipartisan commission that will investigate flaws in U.S. intelligence used to justify the Iraq war, Republican sources said on Thursday... He would lend a streak of independence to a commission that Democrats doubted would be non-partisan since its nine members are being picked by Bush rather than by Congress. Republican sources said McCain was offered the post by the White House on Thursday and accepted. Aides said he would be in Germany attending a security conference on Friday, so he would not be in Washington for the announcement. Names that have been circulating as possible commission members included Robert Gates, a former CIA director under the president’s father; Nebraska Republican Rep. Doug Bereuter; and former Georgia Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn, among others. The White House was also drafting an executive order to set out the scope of the investigation. The administration was giving the panel a broad mandate to look beyond Iraq and at other intelligence matters like the nuclear programs of Libya, Iran and North Korea.
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