['WEHNER', '&', 'YORK', 'ATTORNEYS', 'AT', 'LAW', '.', '513', 'CAPITOL', 'Court,', 'N.E.', 'SUITE', '200', 'WASHINGTON,', 'D.C.', '20002', 'TELEPHONE', '202.543-2700', 'FACSIMILE', '202.543-2023', 'January', '11,', '1996', 'VIA', 'FACSIMILE', 'AND', 'FIRST-CLASS', 'MAIL', 'Mr.', 'Benjamin', 'Wittes', 'Legal', 'Times', '1730', 'M', 'Street,', 'N.W.,', 'Suite', '802', 'Washington,', 'D.C.', '20036', 'Dear', 'Mr.', 'Wittes:', '|', 'am', 'writing', 'in', 'reply', 'to', 'your', 'letters', 'of', 'January', '9', 'and', '10.', 'It', 'is', 'evident', 'from', 'our', 'conversations,', 'as', 'well', 'as', 'from', 'your', 'letters,', 'that', 'you', 'have', 'read', 'or', 'been', 'given', 'a', 'copy', 'of', "ABC's", 'summary', 'judgment', 'papers.', '|', 'reiterate', 'what', 'we', 'have', 'already', 'advised', 'both', 'you', 'and', 'your', 'editor:', "ABC's", 'summary', 'judgment', 'papers', 'were', 'filed', 'under', 'seal', 'because', 'they', 'contained', 'highly', 'proprietary', 'details', 'about', 'Philip', 'Morris’', 'manufacturing', 'processes,', 'including', 'ingredients', 'and', 'specification', 'details,', 'required', 'to', 'be', 'treated', 'as', '“Trade', 'Secret",', '"Highly', 'Confidential"', 'or', '"Confidential"', 'under', 'the', 'Protective', 'Order', 'entered', 'by', 'the', 'Circuit', 'Court', 'for', 'the', 'City', 'of', 'Richmond.', '(A', 'copy', 'of', 'the', 'Protective', 'Order,', 'which', 'remains', 'in', 'force', 'and', 'effect,', 'is', 'enclosed,', 'along', 'with', 'the', 'cover', 'pages', 'of', "ABC's", 'summary', 'judgment', 'papers', 'bearing', 'the', 'legend', '"Not', 'To', 'Be', 'Opened', 'Nor', 'the', 'Contents', 'Revealed', 'Except', '(1)', 'To', 'The', 'Court', 'or', '(2)', 'By', 'Order', 'of', 'This', 'Court").', 'These', 'sealed', 'court', 'papers,', 'and', 'the', 'proprietary', 'information', 'contained', 'in', 'them,', 'were', 'shown', 'or', 'provided', 'to', 'you', 'in', 'violation', 'of', 'that', 'court', 'order.', 'We', 'deem', 'it', 'improper', 'for', 'you', 'or', 'your', 'newspaper', 'to', 'make', 'any', 'use', 'whatsoever', 'of', 'information', 'obtained', 'in', 'this', 'manner.', 'We', 'urge', 'you', 'not', 'to', 'do', 'so.', 'Nevertheless,', 'we', 'cannot', 'stand', 'mute', 'in', 'the', 'face', 'of', 'such', 'misinformation', 'as', 'you', 'have', 'been', 'fed.', 'The', 'summary', 'judgment', 'papers', 'filed', 'by', "ABC's", 'counsei', 'falsified', 'and', 'distorted', 'the', 'truth', 'about', 'how', 'Philip', 'Morris', 'makes', 'reconstituted', 'tobacco', '--', 'so', 'much', 'so', 'that', 'only', 'weeks', 'after', "ABC's", 'lawyers', 'declared', 'that', 'their', 'summary', 'judgment', 'papers', 'supposedly', 'would', 'demonstrate', 'that', '"Philip', 'Morris', 'adds', '‘significant', 'amounts', 'of', 'extraneous', 'nicotine’', 'during', 'the', 'production', 'of', 'reconstituted', 'tobacco",', 'ABC', 'itself', 'repudiated', 'these', 'very', 'representations,', 'expressly', 'acknowledged', 'that', 'it', 'did', '"not', 'take', 'issue', 'with"', 'Philip', 'Morris’', 'statement', 'that', '"it', 'does', 'not', 'add', 'nicotine', 'in', 'any', 'measurable', 'amount', 'from', 'any', 'outside', 'source', 'for', 'any', 'purpose', 'in', 'the', 'course', 'of', 'its', 'manufacturing', 'process",', 'and', 'apologized', 'to', 'its', 'national', 'television', 'audience', 'for', 'having', 'reported', 'the', 'contrary.', "ABC's", 'fawyers’', 'summary', 'judgment', 'papers', 'thus', 'must', 'be', 'viewed', 'with', 'deep', 'suspicion,', 'not', 'only', 'because', 'they', 'made', 'claims', 'that,', 'as', 'detailed', 'below,', 'are', 'demonstrably', 'false', 'and', 'misieading,', 'but', 'because', 'they', 'present', 'a', 'purported', 'account', 'of', 'Philip', "Morris'", 'manufacturing', 'process', 'that', 'ABC', 'itself', 'thereafter', 'renounced.', ' ', 'S6RGZE', '8708']