http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ABB Posts tagged with 'ABB' at MetaFilter. Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:40:10 -0800 Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:40:10 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/25482/War%2DProfiteering%2DOrdained%2Dby%2DProvidence <a href="http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,447429,00.html">Former N. Korean Nuclear Contractors are</a> <i>"pretty sure that at some point Don was involved," since it was not unusual to seek help from board members "when we needed contacts with the U.S. government." </i> An article in yesterday's <i>Fortune</i> mentions and quotes a number of former employees/contractors for a Swiss engineering firm -- headed by <b>Donald Rumsfeld </b>at the time that Pyongyang began getting its nuke on. Nevertheless, <i>Today Rumsfeld, riding high after the Iraq war, is reportedly discussing a plan for "regime change" in North Korea. But his silence about the nuclear reactors raises questions about what he did--or didn't do--as an ABB director.</i> unsurprisingly, the media is <a href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=rumsfeld+north+korea+abb">not exactly </a>all over this. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.25482 Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:40:10 -0800 ABB brokenlink donaldrumsfeld korea nuclear pyongyang rumsfeld Ignatius J. Reilly