Word: discreditation
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...firsthand evidence...as to how the industry was conducting its business and what its motivations were," says Scott Ballin of the Coalition on Smoking OR Health, which includes the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association. "The efforts that they are going through to discredit him are directly proportional to the damage they know his testimony can do," says Richard Scruggs, the Mississippi lawyer who is shepherding Wigand through the courts...
...dossier B&W compiled about Wigand to help discredit his testimony, the whistle blower comes across as a chronic troublemaker, quick to complain if his consumer goods were lost or damaged. He also left a previous job under something of a cloud. Several weeks ago, Jack Paller, CEO of Biosonics, Inc., a New Jersey medical-device company, told TIME that in 1987 he had demanded the resignation of Wigand, who was chief operating officer, because he was abusive to the staff. Wigand's attorney contends his client was concerned that Paller was misrepresenting the efficacy of a product...
...lawsuits around the country. And if a man's true danger can be judged by how heavily his enemies are armed, then Wigand, once a vice president for research and development at Brown & Williamson, appears to be mighty fearsome indeed. B&W is going to great lengths to discredit him, while lawmakers are paying close attention to his testimony. As Mike Moore, attorney general in Mississippi, which (like Minnesota, Florida, Massachusetts and West Virginia) is suing tobacco companies to recoup millions of dollars spent treating smoking-related illnesses, puts it, "He knows where all the bodies are buried...
After these two incidents, Afrasiabi charged, Mottahedeh began a campaign to discredit Afrasiabi in academic and professional circles...
Since the early stages of the Clinton administration, Republicans have attempted to keep the Whitewater issue simmering to discredit the President. They attempted to bring the issue to a boil a few weeks ago when Hillary Clinton was forced to testify to a grand jury, but their strategy seems to have backfired. Parading into court draped in an embroidered coat, the First Lady appeared almost saintly. The Republican obsession with Whitewater began to look as if it was entirely motivated by partisan concerns...