Commissions of Inquiry and National Security: Comparative Approaches (Praeger Security International)

Contents......Page 6
1 Toward the Comparative Study of National Security Commissions of Inquiry......Page 8
2 Influence without Power: Commissions of Inquiry and the Australian Intelligence Community......Page 20
3 Public Inquiries in Canada: Making Espionage, Organizational Culture, Wrongdoing, and Mass Murder More Transparent......Page 36
4 The Politics of Commissions of Inquiry into Security and Intelligence Controversies in Britain......Page 62
5 Inquiring into Dirty Wars: A “Huge Smokescreen of Humbug”?......Page 85
6 The Role of Judges......Page 105
7 The Politics of U.S. National Security Commissions......Page 120
8 Investigative Oversight of the American Intelligence Community: Promise and Performance......Page 140
9 Commissions of Inquiry as Agents of Change in the Israeli Intelligence Community......Page 165
10 Legislative Commissions of Inquiry in Spain......Page 186
11 Cover Up or Dig Up? Inquiries into Security Services in Welfare States: The Cases of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark......Page 210
12 Commissions of Inquiry in South Africa’s Intelligence History 1960–2005......Page 228
13 Commissions of Inquiry into National Security and Defense Affairs in the Southern Cone: The Cases of Argentina and Chile......Page 257
14 European Parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Inquiries into Intelligence and Security Issues......Page 274
15 The United Nations Iraq Oil-for-Food Inquiry......Page 299
16 Inside a National Security Inquiry: The Aspin-Brown Commission at Work......Page 315
Selected Bibliography......Page 332
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About the Contributors......Page 356