Having at first resisted the idea of giving Tom Ridge, his homeland security chief, a proper department and making him accountable to Congress, Mr Bush is now sensibly changing his mind.
While Bemba's lawyers are likely to appeal against the verdict, for now his conviction makes him accountable and offers some form of justice to the thousands of people whose lives were devastated by his need to control.
In an interview with US media, Mr Brown's mother said the only way to restore peace in Ferguson was by "arresting [Mr Wilson] and making him accountable for his actions".
"We have a responsibility to make sure we hold him accountable," he added, "and we also have a responsibility to make sure we organize individuals like never before".
"I think you must be tough and make the case and hold him accountable for what he has done across multiple fronts, because he is out of touch with what's going on with the American people.
"Because he holds no political office, it makes him less accountable.
His power over schools has made him directly accountable for them, streamlined organisation and allowed him to make New York a test-bed for reform.
The findings will make them accountable.
We need electoral reform to make them accountable".
The system, he said, failed to make them accountable and made it hard for them to effect real change.
This would help make them accountable to their community as well as accountable nationally.
