Even friends of the Fellowship, however, acknowledge that the group has made itself vulnerable to unfriendly assessments, because its insistent secrecy and Coe's indiscriminate outreach to leaders of all kinds raise legitimate questions of accountability.
Politicians have a legitimate need to impose accountability, and while the ease of counting – something, anything – makes it tempting for them to infer quality from quantity, it doesn't take much reflection to realize that this is a stillborn strategy.
In a critical report, it attacked the "reactive and opaque" handling of the renegotiation and warned that "presenting Parliament with a 'fait accompli' could give rise to legitimate concerns about the accountability and transparency of both the process itself, and its outcome".
And the second step, going beyond goal tracking, is to make the community foundation deep enough that it becomes a legitimate source of answers, accountability and positive support.
The report's recommendations include everything from better training of counselors, to more legitimate measures of counselor accountability, to greater support of counselors from teachers, administrators, and the community.
While the media provided a brief mention of an appellate court's denial of his plea to get his job back, too many reporters failed to tell the more important part of this story: the decision may hurt future public employees seeking redress and accountability over legitimate job losses and discrimination.
No continent has paid more dearly than Africa for the absence of legitimate institutions of law and accountability and a resulting culture of impunity.
A major corporate buy-out by private equity can reshape a community or an industry, and there will always be a legitimate demand for transparency and accountability when that happens".
But the administration must not arbitrarily shut down the flow of legitimate data necessary to preserve accountability and the free flow of information cherished by Americans, even in times of war.
The intervention being applied is an explicit ethical framework for legitimate and fair priority setting, accountability for reasonableness (AFR).
