In 2005, this definition was deemed to be physically impossible by a scientific investigative commission.

In 2005, investigative journalist Dominick Dunne said on Larry King Live that he believed Gary Condit knew more information about the Levy case than he had been disclosing.

It was announced, in September 2005, that the Metropolitan Police Special Branch would be merging with the Anti-Terrorism Branch of the Metropolitan Police to form a new department called Counter Terrorism Command, with the new department coming into being on 2 October 2006, thus completing a process begun when the investigative wing of the Special Branch X squad became The Anti-Terrorist Branch in 1972.

In 1997 Wayne Madsen, now an investigative journalist on international security issues and counterterrorism, joined EPIC as a senior fellow, leaving in 2005

* April 2005: EPIC filed a complaint asking a federal court to force the FBI to disclose information about its use of expanded investigative authority granted by sunsetting provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.

* On 13 December 2005, using Dáil privilege, he claimed that Frank Connolly, an investigative journalist and a brother of one of the ' Colombia Three ', had travelled to Colombia under a false passport.

In 2005, the British satellite company British Sky Broadcasting produced an investigative piece using hidden cameras, which included footage of two of Phelps ' granddaughters, Libby and Jael.

In 2005 and 2007, UK investigative journalist Duncan Campbell wrote a series of articles criticizing police forensic procedures and trial evidence.

In a Special Report of July 2005 the European Court of Auditors concluded that " the hybrid status of the Office, which has investigative autonomy but reports to the Commission for its other duties, has not adversely affected the independence of its investigative function.

A " double genocides " theory, accusing the Tutsis of engaging in a " counter-genocide " against the Hutus, is promulgated in Black Furies, White Liars ( 2005 ), the controversial book by French investigative journalist Pierre Péan.

Hans Hallén, who monitored ICA stores in southern Sweden from 2003 – 2005, said he had informed the company's managers of the exact practices that were exposed on 5 December 2007 by the Sveriges Television in its weekly investigative television programme Uppdrag granskning.

In 2004 and 2005, the Post-Standard published in-depth investigative pieces focusing especially on the inner workings of Albany, including Gov.

Additionally, The Lone Star Iconoclast features investigative reporter Stephen Webster, who has penned a number of the publication's more widely read features since 2005.

Nigel Jaquiss won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for his work on the story.

* Hawaii Reporter awards from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, including awards for best investigative reporting and best business reporting

* UK Daily Telegraph investigative article ( May 2005 )

John L. Hess ( December 27, 1917-January 21, 2005 ) was a prominent American investigative journalist who worked for many years at The New York Times.

The payments were revealed on January 7, 2005, in an investigative report by Greg Toppo of USA Today.

The term Takfiri was brought to a more public prominence by the BBC investigative journalist Peter Taylor, in his 2005 BBC television series The New Al Qaeda.

Gaymard's resignation as Minister of Finances came after the satirical and investigative newspaper Le Canard enchaîné disclosed on 16 Feb 2005 that the government was funding an exclusive apartment for Gaymard and his family ( his wife and his 8 children ).

In 2005, Navasky received the George Polk Book Award given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting.

From 2002 to 2005, Gretchen Currie Kelly served as editor, expanding the paper's focus to include comprehensive coverage of Native Hawaiian issues as well as investigative reporting of development issues on the island.

In response to public criticism, U. S. president Bush initiated an investigative commission who released their report on March 31, 2005.

Nigel Jaquiss ( born 1962 ) is an American journalist who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, for his work exposing former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt's sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl while he was mayor of Portland, Oregon.

* 2005 – Jack Anderson, American journalist ( b. 1922 )

* 2005 – Scott Young, Canadian journalist and novelist ( b. 1918 )

* 1929 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Jacques Roche, Haitian journalist

* 2005 – Marjorie Williams, American journalist ( b. 1958 )

* 2005 – Jack Horner, American sports journalist ( b. 1912 )

* 1937 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author ( d. 2005 )

In 2005, she appeared in the role of Rita Skeeter, the toxic Daily Prophet journalist in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

* 1922 – Jack Anderson, American journalist ( d. 2005 )

In 2005 an Austrian journalist revealed that Fritz Edlinger's GÖAB had received $ 100, 000 from an Iraqi front company as well as donations from Austrian companies soliciting business in Iraq.

Released in conjunction with The Beekeeper, Amos co-authored an autobiography with rock music journalist Ann Powers entitled Piece by Piece ( 2005 ).

* November 15 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist ( d. 2005 )

** Hunter S. Thompson, American author and journalist ( d. 2005 )

* July 20 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist ( d. 2005 )

* October 19 – Jack Anderson, American journalist ( d. 2005 )

In 2005, three years after Fortuyn's death, the Dutch journalist Peter R. de Vries obtained and publicized a secret report of the intelligence department of the Rotterdam police.

In 2005, journalist Oliver Benjamin founded The Church of Latter-Day Dude, a website-philosophy and mock religion inspired by the character " the Dude ", a former hippie, in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski.

Its administration in Southern Iraq has been criticized as corrupt and as " theocracy mixed with thuggery " According to a 2005 report by journalist Doug Ireland, the Badr Organization has been involved in many incidents of attacking and killing gays in Iraq.

In November 2005, controversy erupted when journalist Steve Gilliard posted a photograph on his blog.

* Al Aronowitz ( 1928 – 2005 ), rock journalist who claimed that Bob Dylan wrote his famous " Mr. Tambourine Man " in Aronowitz's former Berkeley Heights home.

* Maria Rosseels ( 1916 – 2005 ), journalist and writer

One of Renner's grandsons, Karl Deutsch-Renner, a well known journalist at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, died in Ottawa in 2005 at the age of 95.

* Steven C. Vincent ( 1955 – 2005 ), American journalist and author kidnapped and murdered in Iraq August 2005