Stanford professor named to panel probing Iraq intelligence

The White House named a Stanford University professor emeritus and senior fellow at the university's Hoover Institution think tank -- and a director emeritus of the Asia-Pacific Research Center -- to the commission investigating the nation's prewar intelligence on Iraq. Henry S. Rowen, 78, was one of the two final members named to the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. The other member named Thursday was Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Charles Vest.