A blistering Congressional report came out today on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's handling of a General Motors ignition switch problem.The defect is blamed in 19 deaths.
David Shepardson is chief of The Detroit News Washington, D.C. bureau. He says the House Energy and Commerce Committee analysis really hauls NHTSA into the "congressional woodshed."
"They had ample information to have discovered this problem in 2007 but, for a number of different failures, didn't do it," says Shepardson.
The report says the NHTSA misunderstood how vehicles worked, lacked accountability, and failed to share information.
* Listen to the interview with David Shepardson above.
