WASHINGTON — Attorney General John Ashcroft (search) did not violate the Anti-Lobbying Act when he visited more than 16 cities to talk about the USA Patriot Act, the Justice Department said in a letter released Monday.
The agency's inspector general, Glenn A. Fine, said the trips in August and September of 2003 did not run afoul of laws barring executive branch officials from engaging in grassroots lobbying or prohibiting the spending of government money on unauthorized publicity or propaganda.
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Let's see if I understand this. Glenn Fine is put into as Inspector General during Ashcroft's tenure.
Ashcroft tools around the country touting the patriot act and telling people you better support it or Kerry will blow up nukes with Al Qaida's help in US cities after he raises your taxes and poisons good christian church-going patriots.
His IG says it's ok.
Wow. I am impressed.
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