It also helps ordinary people press for accountability from officials.
The action was unsuccessful, but Horman believes it helped focus tens of thousands of exiled Chileans involved with Chile Solidarity to continue to press for accountability.
Every publication genuinely committed to the principles of a free press – transparency, accountability, giving the public information it absolutely has a right to know – would have published this material.
Ms. Schapiro's comments are the most direct signal yet that the S.E.C. is continuing to press for accountability and restitution for the upheaval in financial and housing markets in 2007 and 2008, which led to the sweeping regulatory bill that President Obama is scheduled to sign on Wednesday.
Friends also should press for accountability for violations by all sides in Yemen and push for the United Nations to establish a human rights monitoring and reporting mission in Yemen to help constrain abuses.
With little appetite from the White House to press for accountability from the spies -- either for torture or for the apparent snooping into Senate computers -- it seems the only people being forced to suffer consequences are the ones whose names Feinstein announced on the Senate floor last December.
Humanitarians have pressed for accountability of peacekeeping troops.
When corporate scandals shook investor confidence, they noted, the president went to Wall Street to press for corporate accountability.
Regulators need to use the investigation into UBS's interest rate manipulation to press for more accountability among global financial institutions.
Rather than criticizing doctors for giving too much care, Dr. Gupta needs to press for more accountability in emergency rooms and seek to ensure that basic tests are followed up and not ignored.
