Hi,
I respectfully disagree with your second reading and criticisms of the BEA and their response to this news article. They made somethings crystal clear:
1. They and they alone have the responsibility to release information concerning the AF447 investigation.
2. The BEA reserves the right to confirm information published from an external source as being accurate and true.
3. The BEA investigation has not reached the stage of determining cause of the accident.
and,
4. Articles, such as this one, does the families of those who perished no good and could cause harm as it is not information either released or concurred by the BEA.
Your answer has nothing to do with my critics about the BEA.
My critics about the BEA are about his right to be a moral judge of what the press released.
It's not his role to decide if a press release can be harm for families victims etc ...
If they want reply to press articles they must be factual and not emotional.
They have to publish a strong denial or a strong approval.