, SecurityFocus 2004-10-12
He may not have trashed any hotel rooms, but U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft spent over $200,000 of taxpayer money in a four-week, 31-city tour last year promoting the controversial USA PATRIOT Act, according to a report by Congressional auditors released Tuesday.

Tom Jennings
You're missing the point. Gov't doesn't always play fair, there is a well-documented record of severe abuse of law-enforcement (for ex.) power to track/interfere w/people and groups some gov't people find inimical to their int...
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