Who is accountable for anything? Everyone must be scared to take action. A little lip service on a Sunday show, soon like everything else is forgotten. The powers to be will bury this with some stupid manufactured crisis for the news media to feed on.
This behavior goes hand-in-hand with characters who think they are untouchable, such as the DIC (dip$hit-in-chief). This flaw in their thinking is typically the reason for their downfall. Their hubris is stunningly obvious to us all.