The company's top crisis managers have been dispatched to the gulf.
After early wobbles Germany's top crisis managers, the chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the finance minister, Peer Steinbrück, appeared to regain their footing, joining in the European bail-out having previously rejected the idea of a common fund.Yet the mood in Germany remains jittery.
"I'm a little baffled by the whole thing," said Marina Ein, also a top crisis management specialist in Washington whose recent clients included Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund and French presidential candidate accused of raping a hotel worker.
Indeed, a third, top crisis manager who asked not to be named has another theory about Amazon's latest lob, which is that another shoe may be about to drop.
John Weber is one of the nation's top crisis managers.
Now, she's the first person they might call to defend that kind of accusation, as top crisis manager for one of the premiere corporate litigation firms in the country, the Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
