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• s  designed to find information or ascertain facts
  a fact-finding committee

• Reiterman was one of a handful of journalists who accompanied the Congressman on a fact-finding mission to Jonestown, Guyana.
• Republicans say the fact-finding trip is merely for show, given Obama's commitment to troop withdrawal, which he repeated in a speech July 15.
• The second fact-finding board, appointed March 15, 1948, investigated a meat-packing strike, became one of four to see its strike settled before an injunction had to be issued.

• investigative
• investigatory

News & Articles

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• Commissioners Pleased With New Public Process Following Police-Involved Shootings
  After five months and three public reviews of police-related fatalities, Clark County commissioners are generally pleased with how the county's new public fatality fact-finding review process works. Commissioners on Tuesday heard a planned, routine report
  June 19, 2013 - Las Vegas Review-Journal
• County Commissioners check up on new fatality review process
  Clark County commissioners are checking up a on a process many of you asked for: the police fatality fact-finding review process. The new title is a mouthful but is it...
  June 19, 2013 - News 3 Las Vegas
• Detective at fact-finding review: Police tried to negotiate with man they eventually killed
  A fact-finding review gave the public more insight into the fatal shooting of 36-year-old Justin Hoey, a Las Vegas man shot by Henderson police.
  June 14, 2013 - Las Vegas Sun

Quotes

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• John McCain in Christian Science Monitor
  In my experience, fact-finding missions usually work best the other way around: First you assess the facts on the ground, then you present a new strategy,said McCain prior to addressing a town hall meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Ban Ki-moon in Washington Post
  Ban said that during a meeting with al-Bashir last month, "he said he would issue visas to the fact-finding mission."