Rethugs to American Kids:
Die!
From WaPo:
Matt Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said the Justice Department's lead trial lawyer called him May 9 to say her superiors wanted him to scale back the recommendations he had made in written testimony. They sought to remove his suggestions for a ban on tobacco company methods of marketing to young people before Myers took the stand. Myers said he refused to do so.
Let's hear it for - "The Justice Department's approach to tobacco litigation should be based on the facts of the case and not political favors to the tobacco industry," wrote Rep. Henry A. Waxman, (D-Calif.) and Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.). "It is highly unusual for government prosecutors to abandon evidence-based testimony by their key witnesses at the last moment in a major trial." Democratic Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.), Frank Lautenberg (N.J.), Richard J. Durbin (Ill.), Ron Wyden (Ore.) and Tom Harkin (Iowa) made a similar request.