I have to imagine that even a cold hearted MBA can probably appreciate that the PR damage occurring right now more than justifies the cost of a decently large team of people whose only reason for existing is auditing the assembly process.
If they want to stay out of the docket in the long run that would be an excellent move. Because if another 737 falls out of the sky and it happens over the United States you can bet that prison time for execs is going to be called for if they don't get to the bottom of this. Whether it will happen is another thing but they have run out of goodwill.
