Tobacco Litigation Update

Something smelled fishy about the Justice Department's cave-in on the tobacco litigation, and yesterday, we found out why.

Apparently, the trial team didn't want to reduce the amount of damages DOJ was seeking. That decision came down from on high -- specifically, an Associate Attorney General, Robert D. McCallum, who has the distinction of being both a buddy of Bush's from Skull and Bones AND being a former partner in a law firm that represented R.J. Reynolds.

So the trial team wrote a memo documenting their objections to what they perceived as political interference, and then someone leaked that memo to the NY Times.

Nice . . . .

Hopefully, the Times won't lose interest -- as they so often do.