Almost completely Irrelevant

So it turns out US intellegence is "Dead wrong" about WMDs in Iraq (Post, BBC). The good news is the administration is pretty much exonerated. No foul. Now there may be some wacky conspiracy theorists who believe that the administration stacked the committee that cleared them.

Says Adam Entous Reuters:

Democrats have derided the commission as "wholly owned" by the executive branch
since its members were all appointed by Bush.

That's a little heavy for me. After reading the profiles of the committee members I couldn't tell if it was biased or not, so instead let me underscore a completely irrelevant oddity. Holy children Batman! Those members sure are prolific!!

BABY TIME!
Larry Silberman 1 son 2 daughters
Chuck Robb 3 children
Rick Levin 2 sons 2 daughters
John McCain 5 sons 2 daughters (Go John!! though iirc some are adopted)
Henry Rowen 3 daughters 3 sons
Walter Slocombe 2 daughters 1 son
Bill Studeman 2 daughters 1 son
Charles Vest 1 daughter 1 son
Patricia Wald 3 daughters 2 sons

Thats an average of 4 kids compared to the current national average of 2.14 per female (let's assume each committee member only begets children with one female). Kinda odd, but maybe the current numbers don't apply since these folks aren't exactly current:

AGES
Larry Silberman 69
Chuck Robb 65
Rick Levin 57
John McCain 68
Henry Rowen 79
Walter Slocombe 63
Bill Studeman 65
Charles Vest 63
Patricia Wald 76

For an average age of: 67. What's up with that? Couldn't the administration have found a younger panel? How about a handful of these guys' kids? I'm sure the investigation was conducted with vim and vigor, but I still feel underrepresented.

And then the dark voice in the back of my head says "maybe they didn't want anyone who would be around too much longer...." My dark voice reads too much Fafblog. Which is an appropriately irrelevant ending to a completely irrelevant post.