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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;The Paper of Record&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;concedes it&amp;#8217;s a slow news day by running, top right above the fold, a look at the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;latest doings of the DOJ&amp;#8217;s Antitrust Division&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;Interesting reading for legal news geeks nonetheless: the &lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;efforts of Obama&amp;#8217;s top trustbuster, Christine Varney, a former Hogan &amp;amp; Hartson partner and Clinton-era FTC commissioner, to &amp;#8216;rein in a host of major industries&amp;#8217; are reportedly so aggressive that she is getting pushback from within the administration.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;(The &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;phone call&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt; is coming from inside the house? &lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Well, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/business/26antitrust.html&quot; target=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/business/26antitrust.html?hpw&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;the leak&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;s &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;are coming from inside the White House!)&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;Among the industries in Varney&amp;#8217;s crosshairs: telecoms, airlines, railroads (!?), and &amp;#8211;at the special request of Vermont&amp;#8217;s Bernie Sanders&amp;#8212;those &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;BigMilk &lt;span&gt;nogoodniks&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;The article also has some vague details about what or who the DOJ is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; going after: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;[In connection to the] White House effort to overhaul financial regulation, officials weighed but rejected a significant antitrust role as a way to reduce the size of large companies considered too big to be allowed to fail.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;Meaning, the DOJ &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; considering breaking up some banks, but then decided against.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Or, alternatively, the DOJ &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; considering a more expansive definition of &amp;#8216;too big to fail,&amp;#8217; but then bagged it. &lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Or something else entirely; Hard to say, move along.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;-posted by brian&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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