Bipartisan Foolishness ; the Justice Department V. Big Tobacco

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When the defense starts presenting its case today in the civil RICO case against Big Tobacco, it will be the federal government on the defensive. The Department of Justice has taken so long to lose so much that it has but one goal left: saving face.

And with the government headed for near-certain defeat - despite spending at least $135 million before the actual trial started - it is the Bush Department of Justice that stands to suffer from a snowball that started rolling downhill early in the Clinton administration.

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Bipartisan Foolishness ; the Justice Department V. Big Tobacco

The roots of the current litigation stretch back almost a decade, to a criminal investigation that a spokesman at Phillip Morris parent Altria estimates was launched in 1995. No charges were ever filed. And it appears tha...

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