President Bush appointed a Jewish judge to co-chair a commission assessing the intelligence that preceded the Iraq war. Judge Laurence Silberman, a Republican, will co-chair the commission with former Sen. Chuck Robb (D-Va.). Also named to the panel last Friday was Rick Levin, Yale University’s first Jewish president.
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