The independent panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks announced Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as their counterparts in the Clinton administration, William Cohen and Madeleine Albright will all testify at a two-day hearing next week. CIA Director George Tenet and Clinton’s national security advisor Sandy Berger will also testify. One top official who is not scheduled to appear is national security advisor Condoleezza Rice who repeatedly declined on the advice of the White House, citing separation of powers.

Meanwhile Time Magazine reports the President Bush-appointed panel to examine intelligence failures before the invasion of Iraq has yet to meet — five weeks after the committee was formed. It is unclear when the panel will hold its first meeting.