Impressive-sounding recitations of the requirements for establishing a class action, but not a trace of the inquiry a judge is supposed to perform into the fairness of the settlement and the basis for the fee.
Petraeus gives many of these airborne, progress-on-the-march tours to visiting congressmen, journalists, and academics, and there was a cringe-inducing quality to some of his recitations as he skimmed above the country at an altitude of a thousand feet.