The city needs an outside force, whether an independent special prosecutor or the investigatory commission recommended by Mr. Mollen, to take over the fight against corruption.

An investigatory commission met on March 7, and held hearings at which both union and management witnesses testified.

Palestinian officials continue to insist on an international investigatory commission into the past 12 days of violence as a prerequisite for the resumption of negotiations.

In his more than 11 years in office, the County Executive has rarely appointed investigatory commissions.

The government would set up an official investigatory commission before which representatives of the Jewish and Greek communities were ordered to present their evidence.

General Florea said a special investigatory commission would be sent from Bucharest to open the files and determine where charges should be brought.

Historically, grand juries were sometimes used in American law to serve a purpose similar to an investigatory commission.

Recently an investigatory commission found the charges pressed against those individuals were false.

When the theory was first presented in 1987, a review of the accident was conducted by a second investigatory commission.

The establishment of objective investigatory commissions clearly has a place here.