The New York Times has an interesting piece on the political history of DOJ’s anti-tobacco lawsuit that I blogged about a few days ago. An excerpt:
Past and present members of the tobacco trial team say that during the Clinton and the Bush administrations, the political leanings of whichever administration was in charge were always a factor in a case involving so much money and so many powerful players.
“I don’t know that what the Bush administration has done is any more politically based than what Clinton did in bringing the case in the first place,” said Paul Honigberg, a lawyer who worked on the Justice Department’s case from its inception and left as deputy director of the trial team in September 2001.
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