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I used to come home tied in a knot

B&W lawyers had devised an ingenious method for avoiding discovery of sensitive information: have it shipped offshore a practice one attorney referred to as document management. It was the suggestion of Kendrick Wells, an attorney in B&Ws legal department, that staff be told that this effort was to remove deadwood, and that no one should make any notes, memos or lists. Wigand later testified that another law firm, Covington & Burling, sometimes edited scientific information on additives

Wigand's Mississippi testimony that CBS reconsidered, and allowed the show to run.

Wigand told 60 Minutes B&W knew its product was addictive, even though the companys chief executive had said otherwise in Congress testimony

And then I realized I didnt have cash

Who knows better than you? I got the brushoff