We live in a country where editors of both The New York Times and USA Today resigned, not for any personal crime, but because lies had been told under their watch. That's all.
I don't know about the USA Today editor, but Howell Raines resigned ovr the Jason Blair debacle because it was shown that he was complicit, if not the chief instigator, in promoting an incompetent to the position that Blair attained.
As a side note, if CEO's and others in high administrative positions (in both private industry and government) resigned every time a low-level worker bee did something wrong then there would be no CEO'S or administators.
Good point. But it might provide me the chance to one day become a CEO! :-)