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...holiday pay. Frustrated union leaders say they were blackmailed into eating what amounted to a 20% wage cut. "We had to accept these terms because there was the constant threat that these jobs would go to Hungary if we didn't," says Wolfgang Mueller, who was IG Metall union's representative on the Siemens supervisory board at the time. The concession didn't help much. When Kleinfeld took over in 2005, he jettisoned the handset business, selling it to Taiwan's BenQ, which shut it down a year later, embarrassing Kleinfeld and sparking protests from workers and politicians...
Kleinfeld expected to have his contract extended. And with good reason. He presented first-half results that show that all the company's divisions are profitable again for the first time in years. Dieter Scheitor, the IG Metall union representative on Siemens' supervisory board who gave Kleinfeld a shove, says what matters most is whether all the bad news is out now. "Experience teaches us that the scandal probably has not reached its final act yet," he says...
...Feith himself did in the walkup to the 2003 invasion. Intelligence analysts working for him drew links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda that didn't pan out, they say. But those suspected links were cited by President Bush and Vice President Cheney in the rush to war. The IG said Feith's work was "inappropriate," but not illegal...
...Feith chooses to argue that the debate shouldn't be over whether he and his staff got it right, but whether or not the CIA - which looked but could find no links between Saddam and al-Qaeda - should be immune from outside criticism. "The IG got this point wrong and it would be dangerous to follow his badly reasoned opinion on the issue," Feith writes on his site. "To guard against such errors, policy officials should be praised, not slapped, for challenging CIA products." He helpfully notes that the CIA got it wrong when it concluded, before the war, that...
...Defense for Policy, was "the f---king stupidest guy on the face of the earth." Today, there was another bad review. Feith got publicly slapped by the Defense Department's inspector general for developing pro-war intelligence on Iraq - outside of official channels - that now seems plainly wrong. The IG concludes that Feith's office, on a free-lance basis, made claims "that were inconsistent with the consensus of the intelligence community." The report said that Feith's shop exaggerated the purported links between Saddam Hussein's government and al-Qaeda. "That was the argument that was used to make...