Accountability problems.

• Author: Kendall, R.
• Position: READERS FORUM: VIEWS ... COMMENTS ... SUGGESTIONS - Letter to the editor

Your January 2009 article, "Industry Braces for Bigger Crackdown on Corruption" reads as if government and industry are individuals whom one can hold accountable, Ironically the article fits very nicely into the state of our economy today as the triggering event (not the fault) was the result of a few in industry trying to do what a few in the government wanted them to do to help out a few non-homeowners in these United States. Loosely using numbers like "300 procurement fraud cases" and "50 individuals have been criminally charged"--both of which are fractions of the total number of procurements and the total number of government and contractor employees--is irresponsible to the 99.9 percent of the government and industry that try to do the right things.

There seems to be those in the government who believe that legislating...