Yes, but the Spineless Administration allowed one of the Chief Perps and the Dem's Career mouthpiece to sit on the Panel.
BS. Any fight on the 9/11 Commission's formation would have had the Democrats screaming "COVER UP" with the MSM shouting their whines from the rooftops and you know it. It would have been their rallying cry, bigger than any of the malarkey they've been trying so far. I think the administration made the best of a bad situation and handled it well. The whole thing was a stealth Kerry campaign event.