GM suspends two engineers in disciplinary action

It's a little hard to blame this on the Government since the problem started in the early 2000s well before GM became Government Motors. However, the unions are still owners, as far as I know, and they were there through the whole thing. While some engineers may have tried to cover it up, the worker bees are the ones who installed the product, albeit at the direction of the engineers eventually. Nothing good is going to come of this for GM but I'll bet they get through it just as Toyota has.