perhaps even hypocritical
From my perspective, there’s more than a whiff of hypocrisy in Mr McCormick disclaiming responsibility for the outcome of pre-existing systemic issues in the organisation of which he has been CEO for over 3 years, on the one hand, and on the other hand insisting that the PIC of NGA must bear sole responsibility for the ditching despite the patently obvious pre-existing systemic issues that contributed to that outcome.
The average lifespan of the CASA CEO/DASR is 4 to 5 years. Mr McCormick is therefore likely to be gone, soon. (Sooner, if he continues to lead with his chin.)
And that’s one cause of the systemic problems.