{"id":68896,"date":"2007-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/06\/12\/cest-lord-woolf-qui-va-soccuper-de-bae-mais-pas-comme-on-lattendait\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T00:00:00","slug":"cest-lord-woolf-qui-va-soccuper-de-bae-mais-pas-comme-on-lattendait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/06\/12\/cest-lord-woolf-qui-va-soccuper-de-bae-mais-pas-comme-on-lattendait\/","title":{"rendered":"C’est Lord Woolf qui va s’occuper de BAE, \u2014 mais pas comme on l’attendait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nous avons \u00e9voqu\u00e9 dans notre F&C d’hier l’initiative de BAE de nommer une personnalit\u00e9 ind\u00e9pendante, \u00e0 la t\u00eate d’une commission qui devrait \u00e9valuer la situation \u00e9thique de ce m\u00eame BAE. Notre appr\u00e9ciation<\/a> \u00e9tait, pour le moins, sarcastiquement sceptique. Il semble que nous n’ayons pas eu tout \u00e0 fait raison.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl est vrai que deux textes de l’Independent<\/em> \u00e9clairent les conditions de cette initiative, qui la rendent tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rente de la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence qui \u00e9tait cit\u00e9e (l’action de BP aux USA, l’ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re). Jeremy Warner \u00e9crit<\/a> ainsi :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abWhat’s more, the nature of the appointment has been quite widely misreported by the British media. Lord Woolf’s purpose is not to investigate the ins and outs of Al-Yamamah, but rather to vet procedures and practices for future and ongoing contracts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbPerhaps naively, the company takes the view that the corruption charges associated with Al-Yamamah are water under the bridge, and that it could not in any case rake over the past even if it wanted to because of continued duties of confidentiality under the contract.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbLord Woolf’s function will therefore not at all mirror what the former US Secretary of State James Baker did for BP in investigating the Texas City oil refinery blast. The Baker inquiry was an attempt to find out what happened, clear the air and apportion blame. BAE has taken the view that this is simply not possible with Al-Yamamah. Instead, the intention is to reassure that from here on in the company is whiter than white.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tUn autre article<\/a> d’analyse g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, dans le m\u00eame journal, confirme cette analyse en \u00e9mettant des doutes (le titre est explicite : \u00abMission impossible for legal top gun?<\/em>\u00bb) sur la possibilit\u00e9 que cette enqu\u00eate freine l’actuelle crise de BAE : \u00abThe committee seems unlikely to appease BAE’s harshest critics. Analysts made comparisons yesterday with an independent review of health and safety set up last year by the oil company BP, following an explosion at one of its refineries in Texas City. But crucially, unlike the BP inquiry, BAE’s committee will have no remit to investigate what has gone on at the company in the past. Lord Woolf will not be employed to study the Al Yamamah arms deal BAE signed in the 1980s, or any of the allegations about payments that the company has subsequently made to the Saudi royal family.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBAE semble devoir nommer pour cette t\u00e2che Lord Woolf, l’ancien Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, personnage implicitement d\u00e9crit comme au-dessus de tout soup\u00e7on. Rien \u00e0 voir avec James Baker, qui s’\u00e9tait occup\u00e9 de BP aux USA il y a un an. Qui plus est, la d\u00e9cision semble avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9cipit\u00e9e \u00e0 cause de la r\u00e9cente relance du scandale, alors qu’elle \u00e9tait envisag\u00e9e depuis plusieurs mois. C’est la plus s\u00fbre indication de l’\u00e9tat d’esprit de grande inqui\u00e9tude, voire de panique, de BAE. C’est ce qu’explique Jeremy Warner :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abBritish Aerospace didn’t want it to come out this way. As it is, the likely appointment of Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice, to head a new ethics committee overseeing the company’s procedures and practices looks like a panic reaction to new revelations over BAE’s \u00a340bn Al-Yamamah arms contract.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIn fact, the appointment has been in the planning for months, and is more a response to the company’s ambitions in the US, where such committees are standard practice among defence contractors, than the corruption allegations associated with BAE’s 20-year-old contract with Saudi Arabia.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 12 juin 2007 \u00e0 07H59<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nous avons \u00e9voqu\u00e9 dans notre F&C d’hier l’initiative de BAE de nommer une personnalit\u00e9 ind\u00e9pendante, \u00e0 la t\u00eate d’une commission qui devrait \u00e9valuer la situation \u00e9thique de ce m\u00eame BAE. Notre appr\u00e9ciation \u00e9tait, pour le moins, sarcastiquement sceptique. Il semble que nous n’ayons pas eu tout \u00e0 fait raison. Il est vrai que deux textes… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3792,3858,4551,6763,4364],"class_list":["post-68896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bae","tag-corruption","tag-panique","tag-woolf","tag-yamamah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}