Toward the comparative study of national security commissions of inquiry / Stuart Farson and Mark Phythian -- Influence without power : commissions of inquiry and the Australian intelligence community / Andrew O'Neil -- Public inquiries in Canada : making espionage, organizational culture, wrongdoing and mass murder more transparent / Stuart Farson and Reg Whitaker -- The politics of commissions of inquiry into security and intelligence controversies in Britain / Mark Phythian -- Inquiring into dirty wars : a "huge smokescreen of humbug"? / Peter Gill -- The role of judges / Ian Leigh -- The politics of U.S. national security commissions / Kenneth Kitts -- Investigative oversight of the American intelligence community : promise and performance / Glenn Hastedt -- Commissions of inquiry as agents of change in the Israeli intelligence community / Shlomo Shpiro -- Legislative commissions of inquiry in Spain / Antonio M. Díaz Fernández -- Cover up or dig up? : inquiries into security services in welfare states : the cases of Norway, Sweden and Denmark / Janne Flyghed -- Commissions of inquiry in South Africa's intelligence history, 1960-2005 / Kevin A. O'Brien -- Commissions of inquiry into national security and defense affairs in the southern cone : the cases of Argentina and Chile / José Manuel Ugarte -- European parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe inquiries into intelligence and security issues / Aidan Wills -- The United Nations Iraq oil-for-food inquiry / Reid Morden -- Inside a national security inquiry : the Aspin-Brown Commission at work / Loch K. Johnson.