Yes, both parties should be held accountable. The board of directors who ought to really screen the administrators, helping toward the organization; rather was much the same as leaving everything to the management itself to do whatever they feel is right. None of the outside directors had general correspondences with the top management or with other representative outside of board or council gatherings and preceding April 2002, they were never met without anyone else's input to talk about matter related with WorldCom. They were taking everything simple, did not do anything aside from going to the board meeting which was directed and chosen by Bernie Ebbers, and as an arrival, get the profit yearly. This shows how removed they were from the
