Comments on: more emerges on Bush interference with prosecution http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2007/07/12/more-emerges-on-bush-interference-with-prosecution/ Blogging U.S. vs. Philip Morris, Inc. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:27:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Judith Ostergard http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2007/07/12/more-emerges-on-bush-interference-with-prosecution/#comment-26274 Judith Ostergard Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:40:03 +0000 http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2007/07/12/more-emerges-on-bush-interference-with-prosecution/#comment-26274 When one considers the deaths of people that live in the U.S. from tobacco products, it makes people wonder why the government doesn't just ban the killer weed. To keep tobacco legal, and let these death companies strike out at our children through ads, and cigarettes sold everywhere is next to genocide. As fast as the administration makes billions from cigarette tax monies it's spent on war machines and proliferation of a 15 year war. The "silent majority" must get off of their duffs, and get involved in class action suits against the tobacco companies and the government that takes death money from them. When one considers the deaths of people that live in the U.S. from tobacco products, it makes people wonder why the government doesn’t just ban the killer weed. To keep tobacco legal, and let these death companies strike out at our children through ads, and cigarettes sold everywhere is next to genocide. As fast as the administration makes billions from cigarette tax monies it’s spent on war machines and proliferation of a 15 year war. The “silent majority” must get off of their duffs, and get involved in class action suits against the tobacco companies and the government that takes death money from them.

]]> By: Maggie http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2007/07/12/more-emerges-on-bush-interference-with-prosecution/#comment-17932 Maggie Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:32:16 +0000 http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2007/07/12/more-emerges-on-bush-interference-with-prosecution/#comment-17932 If you are interested in learning about tobacco control methods and tobacco control activism check out the website "Global Tobacco Control Learning from the Experts" www.globaltobaccocontrol.org This site offers free instructional training for policy makers, researchers, educators and the general public. It helps participants learn how to advocate for substantial anti-smoking regulations and craft media campaigns that make a difference. The online lectures are given by tobacco control experts around the world. It’s educational, interesting, and free. If you are interested in learning about tobacco control methods and tobacco control activism check out the website “Global Tobacco Control Learning from the Experts” www.globaltobaccocontrol.org This site offers free instructional training for policy makers, researchers, educators and the general public.

It helps participants learn how to advocate for substantial anti-smoking regulations and craft media campaigns that make a difference. The online lectures are given by tobacco control experts around the world. It’s educational, interesting, and free.

]]> By: krueger http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2007/07/12/more-emerges-on-bush-interference-with-prosecution/#comment-16935 krueger Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:45:05 +0000 http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2007/07/12/more-emerges-on-bush-interference-with-prosecution/#comment-16935 A follow up: a story appearing today in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/31/AR2007073102163.html?hpid=topnews reports on more political interference in justice and Justice. US. attorney John Brownlee was prosecutor in a case involving OxyContin, the addictive painkiller. Brownlee was about to get a guilty plea from its manufacturer when he got a call from Michael Elston, a senior DoJ official, asking for more time. Elston was calling at the request of the manufacturer. Today's story is occasioned by a hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the fired federal prosecutors. The subject of the hearings is politicization of Justice, political influence on DoJ, improper pressure on the Department. The connection to the tobacco trial is whether Justice would have been subject to pressure in other cases. A follow up: a story appearing today in the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/31/AR2007073102163.html?hpid=topnews

reports on more political interference in justice and Justice.

US. attorney John Brownlee was prosecutor in a case involving OxyContin, the addictive painkiller. Brownlee was about to get a guilty plea from its manufacturer when he got a call from Michael Elston, a senior DoJ official, asking for more time. Elston was calling at the request of the manufacturer.

Today’s story is occasioned by a hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the fired federal prosecutors. The subject of the hearings is politicization of Justice, political influence on DoJ, improper pressure on the Department. The connection to the tobacco trial is whether Justice would have been subject to pressure in other cases.

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