Whitman said Apotheker and Shane Robison, HP's former head of strategy, are to blame, and she noted that they are both gone. Whitman said that the board -- of which she was a part at the time of the purchase -- "feels terribly" about missing Autonomy's accounting fraud. But she said the purchase was thoroughly audited by consulting giant Deloitte, which itself was audited by KPMG -- and neither of those companies found anything suspicious about the deal.