Today's settlement means no more damaging documents or information will be released by the courts.
Colson also proposed firebombing the Brookings Institution and stealing politically damaging documents while firefighters put the fire out.
Concealing this from Congress by altering damaging documents and fraudulently classifying other documents compounds that corruption.
A potentially damaging document emerged from Merrill.
Mr. Bryant said companies can use the orders to keep damaging documents away from the eyes of state and Federal regulators, for example.
They also noted that the company agreed to make potentially damaging documents available for use in lawsuits against other cigarette makers.
What passed as a poor substitute these days was when some scheming politico chose one particular paper to leak some hopefully damaging document to.
When confronted with the memo, Colonel North chided himself for not destroying all damaging documents.
In a safe which had been built-in in the dining room they found a wireless transmitter and some pretty damaging documents.
Accusing cigarette makers of destroying potentially damaging documents has been one of many accusations against the industry for years.