official patrick kennedy the four employees reassigned were never punish the way most americans think of accountability. they never missed a paycheck and the state department simply shuffled the deck chair. >> at the end of the day no one is held accountable. >> i submit respectfully accountability includes being relieved from your job and assigned to other positions. to me that is serious accountability. >> the reassignment, nobody missed a paycheck. no one has been held accountab accountable. the board did not take this to the upper levels of management. >> the decision to temporarily relieve and reinstate these four state department officials amounted to what they call the potomac two-step virginia managers are blamed as policy