Miriam Webster Definition of comptroller:
1 a royal-household official who examines and supervises expenditures
2 a public official who audits government accounts and sometimes certifies expenditures
Wikipedia: A comptroller is a management level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization.
Oxford English: Comptroller (noun): A controller (used in the title of some financial officers).

An so on ..... all the definitions are the same .....

So how officer charged with reviewing accounting affairs promote himself judge and jury of the elected political and military echelon?

Finally, some one talking sense.

One of the best opinion pieces I have read in a long time.
Ben-Dror Yemini has hit the nail on the head.
Well done

The blanket is too small and no matter how it is pulled something always sticks out. The criticism is valid but adding a patch over a hole in the blanket will not do the trick. Israeli government continues to ignore the greatest need of the country since its creation, the need of forming the Constitutional committee and of writing it. And I can tell you why it is so: the Knesset members never want to work hard.