City analysts Evolution Securities said the investigation could shift culpability towards Transocean – which operated the Deepwater Horizon rig on BP's behalf – and "in particular the integrity of the blowout preventer which should have acted as the ultimate fail safe", Graeme reports.
In the wake of international calls on Saudi leaders to explain Khashoggi's disappearance, the kingdom's defenders began pushing a counternarrative that shifted culpability onto Turkey and Qatar, whose governments have had years of tensions with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a key Saudi ally.
Its principal tactic was to shift culpability to UCIL, stating the plant was wholly built and operated by the Indian subsidiary.
The resulting lawsuits against these "carbon majors" are radical because they shift the culpability from developed countries to corporations.
That story, with its shifting sense of culpability, is the closest Davis comes to describing her struggles with Daniel.
Despite Mr Dimon's admirable private candour, the authors urge executives to devise a plausible narrative about their failure that includes "clearly denying culpability, shifting responsibility for the mishap, reducing the offensiveness of the act, giving the appearance of reasonable behaviour and offering acceptable motives".
Some qualitative studies have shown that some people either with a psychiatric diagnosis or related to someone with a psychiatric diagnosis believe that biogenetic accounts reduce – or might reduce – stigma and blame, through shifting responsibility and/or culpability away from the individual and towards heredity (Meiser et al, 2005; Laegsgaard et al, 2010; Potokar et al, 2011).
As the story changed, culpability shifted back and forth.
Accident investigators lessen these odds even further, prosecutors say, by shifting attention away from the culpability of individuals and toward systemic failures in oversight.
