"But a company that knows in effect that the disclosure is deceptive or misleading can't be shielded from accountability under many circumstances".
It's the senior officials, it's the policymakers who are shielded from accountability, who are shielded from oversight and who are allowed to make decisions that affect all of our lives without any public input, any public debate, or any electoral consequences because their decisions and the consequences of the decisions are never known.
This structure reinforces the reality that powerful states are too often shielded from accountability," he said, pointing out that three of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the US, China and Russia - do not recognise the ICC's jurisdiction over their territories.
Because, as others have previously pointed out, the company has long used a policy of not commenting on individual accounts to shield itself from accountability — e.g. from criticism that it's providing a platform to nazis and white supremacists.
Government should not be gratuitously hampered but its discomfort should never shield it from accountability.
Jeanne Smoot, a lawyer at the Tahirih Justice Center, which drafted the new Virginia law, said: "Pregnancy exceptions don't exist to help children but to shield adults from accountability".
"Any attempt by this President to remove Special Counsel Mueller from his position or to pardon key witnesses in any effort to shield them from accountability or shut down the investigation would be a gross abuse of power and a flagrant violation of executive-branch responsibilities and authorities," Warner said.
Sophisticated political actors have exploited loopholes and abused the system to hide the identities of their financial supporters and shield them from accountability.
Executives who break the law should know that their bonuses are at risk, their jobs are at risk, and that corporations cannot shield them from accountability for crimes.
Where in the past Members of Congress could act to befriend predatory schools and shield them from accountability, confident that industry lobbyists were watching and the public was not, the tide may be turning.
