Yahoo! News - Bush Sets Up Iraq WMD Intelligence Panel
Democrats immediately questioned the independence of the panel since its members were handpicked by Bush. Bush had initially been cool to a commission and agreed to it under pressure from Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill.

He gave the commission until March 31, 2005, to report back, meaning the results will not be known until after November when voters decide whether to give him a second term. Democrats want it sooner.

Did he give them the Ouija board too?

The executive order that Bush signed laying out the objectives of the commission said the panel will assess whether the U.S. intelligence community is sufficiently organized, equipped, trained and funded to identify threats. It did not give the commission a specific mandate to examine whether the Bush administration exaggerated the Iraq threat, which Democrats wanted.

Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said the panel's mandate was overly broad. "A more narrowly focused effort could be completed, and corrective action taken, in a much shorter time," he said.

But we wouldn't want that, Carl. That might expose George for the lying, murdering, greedy SOB that he is. Wouldn't be prudent.