Calling chiefs of station around the world and being down into the daytoday involvement . That did not happen to my knowledge. The interaction between the National Security staff in the Central Intelligence agency was almost exclusively, not largely but most exclusively between mr. Mcdonough and mr. Brennan and me. And so i guess what im wondering is it that because of your level because we have all these he all these enough to show a variety of people under them that were involved in these talking points and other things and i guess where im going is the light that shines on the daytoday operations, what does that tell us about not only how this administration works but the bigger institutional dangers let me back up for just a second. The cia 33 years . Yes sir. Would you say the cia is more independent today than it was when you entered or less . From micromanagement i dont mean republican or democrat i mean the influences of bosses in the white house. Very hard for me to say becaus
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Responsibility and liability in this entire issue. Have you met with them and with the Engineering Team that was responsible for this switch . I have not met with the specific Engineering Team that is responsible, but i am speaking to leadership and those individuals are being interviewed as part of the investigation. Now, going back, did you say that this was a defective part when you talked about it earlier . We have learned when we knew when the recall decision was made and we later went back and looked at the chronology, theres points that suggest, and thats why were doing the investigation. Okay. All right. Now, i think that youre going to hear from more than one of us about not having a new part number assigned. Who made that decision . Was that strictly a delphi decision or did that come into the gm supply chain for that decision to be made as to how that part number would be coded . At a general level, General Motors is responsible for General Motors parts numbers but, again, t
Person was the one that decided not to recall the defective version . Where did where in the timeline is that . I dont know but that is part of the investigation that were doing. Do you know when it was that it was discovered, what year, what you know, where in the timeline that it was discovered that, in fact, a new part number was not assigned . I became aware of that after we did the recall and the timeline was put together. So that was just in the last month or so. Is that right . Thats when i became aware. But when did gm recallize that no new part number had been assigned . Again, thats part of our investigation. I want to know that just as much as you because thats an unacceptable practice. It is not the way we do business. So, youve stated publicly that something went wrong with our process. Hows the process supposed to work . Hows this how are you redesigning the process to ensure that, in fact, it should work the way that it needs to work . Well, one of the things we are doin
It would vibrate and tear the keys off the teeth. But never once did i have that shut off. For me, they made pretty good ignition switches. Can you tell me how many models gm makes today . Around the globe over 100. 100 different models. Can you tell me how many ignition switches they make . Well we sell if you have 100 models how many different ignition switches would there be. I cant answer that question i dont know. Gm has proven i dont understand this reinventing the wheel. That every car has to have a different set of circumstances to make sure that it meets the qualifications. I recommend that you work hard with us and our next witness from the national Highway Traffic Administration says that when a car shuts off says that the airbag deploys for 60 seconds. I would ask that you reach out and work not only with your engineers saying hey we have some pretty good why do we reinvent the wheel every time we invent a new ignition switch on these models. So. I would welcome the opportu