> I don't know what the right answer is here, but I am certain that I don't find incompetence a better excuse than malfeasance. In the United States there are

> I don't know what the right answer is here, but I am certain that I don't find incompetence a better excuse than malfeasance. In the United States there are laws regarding criminal negligence, and hypothetically speaking, if someone died as a result of her criminal negligence, it would be considered criminally negligent homicide in most states and could result in prosecution and a real prison sentence. Would she ever be tried or found guilty of it? Based on the outcome so far, I doubt it; the powerful and connected rarely fall. But the standard does exist.