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Book SynopsisThis text presents a comparative, international study of commissions of inquiry that have been convened in response to extraordinary failures and scandals.
In recent years, commissions of inquiry have been common to the politics of the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia.
Table of Contents1 Toward the Comparative Study of National Security Commissions of Inquiry
Stuart Farson and Mark Phythian 2 Influence without Power: Commissions of Inquiry and the Australian Intelligence Community
Andrew O'Neil 3 Public Inquiries in Canada: Making Espionage, Organizational Culture, Wrongdoing, and Mass Murder More Transparent
Stuart Farson and Reg Whitaker 4 The Politics of Commissions of Inquiry into Security and Intelligence Controversies in Britain
Mark Phythian 5 Inquiring into Dirty Wars: A "Huge Smokescreen of Humbug"?
Peter Gill 6 The Role of Judges
Ian Leigh 7 The Politics of U.S. National Security Commissions
Kenneth Kitts 8 Investigative Oversight of the American Intelligence Community: Promise and Performance
Glenn Hastedt 9 Commissions of Inquiry as Agents of Change in the Israeli Intelligence Community
Shlomo Shpiro 10 Legislative Commissions of Inquiry in Spain
Antonio M. Díaz Fernández 11 Cover Up or Dig Up? Inquiries into Security Services in Welfare States: The Cases of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
Janne Flyghed 12 Commissions of Inquiry in South Africa's Intelligence History 1960–2005
Kevin A. O'Brien 13 Commissions of Inquiry into National Security and Defense Affairs in the Southern Cone: The Cases of Argentina and Chile
José Manuel Ugarte 14 European Parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Inquiries into Intelligence and Security Issues
Aidan Wills 15 The United Nations Iraq Oil-for-Food Inquiry
Reid Morden 16 Inside a National Security Inquiry: The Aspin-Brown Commission at Work
Loch K. Johnson Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors
