At his news conference, Blumenthal took responsibility for his mistakes but said he was not responsible for mistakes in the many articles written about him.
On Wednesday, the archbishop of Milwaukee said the pope should not be held responsible for mistakes that were made in Wisconsin, according to The Associated Press.
The inability of regulators to hold senior bankers personally responsible for mistakes will fuel demands for stronger accountability rules and will increase pressure on the Government to resurrect plans to make senior financial services executives prove they were unaware of wrongdoing.
The decision to focus the panel on how to respond to future outbreaks, and to name Dr. Yeoh as its chairman, drew strong criticism from opposition parties here, who contended that it was part of a pattern in which senior officials were not held responsible for mistakes.
As an incentive, participating merchants who use certain sales tax processing services get their tax collection costs subsidized and aren't held responsible for mistakes those services might make.
The company responsible for the mistake in programming the call was fired.
"We will no longer be working with the animation studio responsible for this mistake.
Would you discipline or fire the employees responsible for the mistake?
The error is significant, not only because Arlington National Cemetery reserves its plots for distinguished veterans but because Douglas himself was willfully responsible for the mistake.
Mr. Obama said he did not know about the memo, but added, "I consider the entire campaign, and in particular myself, responsible for the mistake".
Most Americans who are wrongly imprisoned have no hope of collecting damages from the public officials or agencies responsible for the mistake.
