Conyers Wants Ashcroft Investigated for Ethics Violations

[BurtWorm]

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/09/14/ashcroft/index.html


Sept. 14, 2004 | Washington -- A leading House Democrat asked the Justice Department's watchdog Tuesday to investigate Attorney General John Ashcroft's trips last year to promote the anti-terror Patriot Act.

Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, contends a pair of speaking tours Ashcroft took broke laws barring publicity campaigns and grassroots lobbying by executive branch officials, unless authorized by Congress.

Conyers requested the investigation in a letter to Glenn A. Fine, the Justice Department's inspector general. A spokesman for Fine said no decision has been made on the request.

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Conyers also released a review by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, estimating the cost of Ashcroft's Patriot Act trips at more than $208,000, not counting expenditures by U.S. attorney's offices around the country in connection with the initiative....

[4morewars]

1. Conyers Rocks !!!!!!

Get that evil POS John !!!!

[Syrinx]

2. what do we know about the inspector general?

Conyers is one of my favorite Dems to see on the Crossfire-type shows.