Henry H. Perritt Jr., dean of the Chicago-Kent College of Law and head of the panel that produced the Illinois report on Carnivore, said the panel of scientists was a "first-rate group".
The head of the panel, Mohammad Yousef Nuristani, for instance, is a former spokesman for the president.
The head of the panel, known as the World Court, will be Judge Gilbert Guillaume of France.
The head of the panel has conceded, however, that the whereabouts of much of the money is still unclear.
The head of the panel is no less than Simon Frith, a lecturer and the author of Music for Pleasure: Essay on the Sociology of Pop. 15.
"He's done something radical," said Peter Girguis, a biological oceanographer at Harvard and head of a panel that oversees the nation's fleet of deep-research vehicles.
Since then, as head of the panel that monitors the bank bailouts, she has become one of the nation's most prominent consumer advocates.
Judge John G. Heyburn II of Federal District Court in Kentucky, the head of the panel, brushed aside the suggestion that a judge's location might unduly influence his actions.
But the views of many were probably well represented by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, who is head of the panel.
"We could cover ourselves with this comment and say, 'The president demanded an investigation,' " said Lyubov V. Volkova, deputy head of the panel, known as the Public Oversight Commission.
