Yes...Sandy Burgler, Richard Holbrooke, Maddie Albright...all were "consulted"...there are more...but you get the picture.
I saw Sandra Day O'Connor on Hairball, and she said that they were SO proud of the fact that they were able to come up with 79 unanimous recommendations...
then she said, (this is verbatim).."it has been a remarkable PERFORMANCE"...
SO..that is how she characterizes it a "performance".
Also..Evan Thomas came on and was very nasty about Pres. Bush and Cheney...he said that this group had to pull Pres. Bush in off of a tree....and that Dick Cheney is so dark, that to hear that he actually smiled once is remarkable.
THEN, Dan Bartlett was on ...and first think he said was that Evan Thomas' type rhetoric re: Pres. Bush needing pulled in off of a tree is exactly why there has been such a problem getting a unified message out of the USA...
YEP.