Boeing CEO David Calhoun appeared before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Tuesday to face questioning about how the aerospace giant is responding to safety concerns amidst ongoing investigations by authorities. Just hours before Calhoun’s testimony, the Senate subcommittee released a damning report on Boeing based on a number of whistleblower complaints and previously undisclosed government findings which found Boeing lost track of hundreds of substandard aircraft parts, eliminated quality inspectors and put manufacturing workers in charge of signing off on their own work.
He actually walked down the line of us and apologized to each person. He looked at me in the eye, and so I looked at him back, and I said, “How can you apologize? Are you also sorry for the deaths of innocent people that your bombs are causing in Rafah?” And at that point, he just turned away from me. So, if you are really sorry, if you really are not wanting to profit from death, then you would respond. You would stick it out. You would look at the person. Another mother started crying when he apologized to her. Again, when she started crying, he just turned away, walked away from her. So, that is a rehearsed apology.
And he is benefiting from all kinds of death. So, he’s gotten bonuses for killing all of our family members. He has a 40 — I think they estimate it as 42% increase in his salary, causing during — causing the Alaska blowout.
— source democracynow.org | Jun 20, 2024