The Shattos have not given a public account of the boy's death.
Rangzieb Ahmed's missing fingernails cried out for a public account that never came.
The public account is very much an extension of her personal brand; targeted and strategic.
Mr. Putin has yet to give his own public account of those events.
Their decisions, too, are not held to public account or checked for consistency.
At their best, they are an unrivalled means of forcing the powerful to give a public account of themselves.
McCurley's rare public account of the squadron's activities came in June, when the Air Force awarded him a Bronze Star.
Mr. Yanin resigned swiftly and never gave a public account of the episode, which some journalists here called Pornogate.
The public account committee's report has a weary, seen-it-all-before tone about many previous privatisation failings.
In e-mail exchanges over the past week, Ms. Livingston also gave statements that refute the public account of the event.
He said he would decide whether to hold a hearing on the matter based on whether his staff uncovered details that differed from the agency's public account.
