The saddest conclusion that occurs to me (not really addressed in his article) is that mechanisms for accountability aren't working very well, if they exist at

The saddest conclusion that occurs to me (not really addressed in his article) is that mechanisms for accountability aren't working very well, if they exist at all. A corollary is that accountability mechanisms are really gross in nature, so any observer or involved person might ascribe something like a demand for leadership change to causes other than the real underlying incompetence.