Sources: AG Told PM State Commission Most Suitable, By Aluf Benn (Haaretz)
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Attorney General Menachem Mazuz informed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that appointing a state commission of inquiry is the appropriate way to investigate the Lebanon war, government sources said Sunday.
The legal options were presented to Olmert in the Mazuz letter, which ran to three pages. The options included a state commission of inquiry or a clarification committee, both in accordance with the law on inquiry committees; a government review panel, in accordance with the law on government powers; a committee appointed by the defense minister, in accordance with the law on military jurisdiction; and a request that the state comptroller prepare a report.
For each option, Mazuz added a short section analyzing the law and its legal significance. The only section where he expressed his opinion was in relation to a state commission of inquiry, which he described as the appropriate method in the existing statutory situation.