 Instead, two internal inspection probes were to be created, one to investigate the political echelon and another to examine the IDF, while a third investigation of the Home Front to be possibly undertaken by the state comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss (although Lindenstrauss, to the "amazement" of the PMO, said that he already has "the authority to investigate the war in Lebanon" and that he "report[s] only to the Knesset").These were to have a far more limited mandate and narrower authority than a single commission headed by a retired judge.Olmert stated that "we do not have the luxury to submerge in investigating the past.