"The C.I.A. has a track record of resisting accountability," Senator Christopher S. Bond, the Missouri Republican who is the committee's vice chairman, said in a statement.
"These confirmation hearings will be a rare opportunity for the Senate and the public to finally get some answers on several issues for which the administration has resisted accountability, including its use of the Patriot Act, the lack of cooperation with Congress on oversight, and the policies that have been rejected by the courts on the treatment of detainees," Mr. Leahy said.
But the behavior of the Americans in the Philippines following Laude's death is not uncharacteristic of the response that these crimes receive at home: blaming the victim, sweeping her death under the rug, and resisting accountability.
Throughout its six-decade history, the CIA has resisted accountability, with even some of its own nonspook directors kept in the dark about the agency's most troubling activities.
Diane Ravitch, for example, the New York University professor and former assistant secretary of education, has urged college presidents to resist the "accountability juggernaut".
And right now, it's clear that APSCU is actively resisting such accountability for its members.
Teachers must be held accountable for their performance, yet we need to resist over-simplified accountability schemes that reduce the complex interaction of teaching to convenient numbers.
Worse, in resisting improvements in accountability, they undermine public confidence in the integrity of the bankruptcy process.
Still, faculties have left themselves vulnerable by resisting demands for accountability, in the view of Charles S. Lenth, the director of higher education policy studies of the Education Commission of the States.
