Richard Levin among members

The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction -- a nine-member presidential commission that included President Richard C. Levin -- presented its report to President George W. Bush on March 31.

The independent commission was established by Bush in February of 2004 in order to conduct a wide-ranging review of U.S. intelligence operations, particularly in regard to weapons of mass destruction.

Its report included 74 recommendations for improving the U.S. intelligence community, including increasing the power and resources of the Director of National Intelligence and establishing a National Security Service inside the FBI. The commission's full report is available online at www.wmd.gov/report/index.html.

The commission was co-chaired by former U.S. Senator Charles Robb (D-Virginia) and Laurence Silberman, a retired member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. In addition to Levin, the other members included Lloyd Cutler '36 B.A., '39 J.D., White House counsel under Democratic Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton; Senator John McCain (R-Arizona); Henry S. Rowen, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs; Navy Admiral William O. Studeman, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Judge Patricia Wald '51 J.D., another retired member of the D.C. appeals court; and Charles M. Vest, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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