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How is Volkswagen's US head, who lives and works in the US, able to issue proclamations with such certainty about the non-existence of private conversations and
by droithomme 11y ago
How is Volkswagen's US head, who lives and works in the US, able to issue proclamations with such certainty about the non-existence of private conversations and directions taking place among the engineering staff and management in Germany, where he spends almost no time?
It is as if a US diplomat stationed in New Zealand used his authority to declare that Bush had never authorized any torture, and it was rogue individual interrogators who did it. How would he know given he was on the other side of the world when the conversations would have taken place.
- bpodgursky 11y agoI would assume he is speaking on behalf of Volkswagen, not testifying as an individual on his own experiences. Volkswagen's current story is that it was a couple rogue engineers, so he is conveying that. Congress isn't going to get the CEO in to testify, so it's reasonable to assume he is speaking as a proxy.
- randcraw 11y agoExactly. If Mr Horn is certain of what he says, where's the proof? To make such allegations, any court would require that VW produce historical evidence of this misbehavior. Yet he offers none. In the absence of such evidence, the responsibility for misdeed falls to the corporation's most senior executives -- for failing to create and maintain a process that should have captured and revealed such misdeeds, thereby PRODUCING THE MISSING AUDIT TRAIL. Blame others without evidence ==> cover up.