investigative committees
Congressional fact-finding bodies
Investigative committees are formal bodies—typically within legislatures—empowered to examine specific issues, events, or allegations.
They gather evidence, subpoena witnesses, and issue reports.
Congressional investigative committees have probed everything from organized crime to presidential misconduct: The investigative committee called the former aide to testify.
The term also applies to similar bodies in other institutions.
- auditFormal accounts examination
- watchdogGuard or monitor
- congressional inquiryLegislative body's formal investigation
- whistleblowerInsider who reports misconduct
- smoking gunIrrefutable proof of wrongdoing
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Judicial bodies or playing areas
criminal courts · trial courts · tribunals · grand juries · legislative bodies
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