Members of the presidential commission that examined U.S. intelligence failures told White House officials they would resign en masse if President Bush did not ensure that the nation's spy agencies cooperated with their inquiry -- and had to repeat the threat more than once.
Laurence Silberman, the federal judge who was co-chairman of the inquiry said he told officials, "If we did not get support from the White House at any time we ran into any difficulties, I and others would resign."
"I did occasionally have to remind the White House of the commitment I had made to resign," Silberman continued, saying he had done so to "focus their attention."
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