Matt Drudge reports: “Fed up with having his picture taken during events in the Justice Department’s Great Hall in front of semi-nude statues, Attorney General John Ashcroft has reportedly ordered massive draperies to conceal the offending figures — which have been displayed since the 1930s!”

The draperies themselves, according to ABCNEWS.com’s Beverly Lumpkin, cost just over $8000.00, and are designed to cover the Spirit of Justice’s enormous aluminum breast — an alloyed bosom left exposed by the immodesty of Ms. Justice’s ill-fitting toga.

Above: A glum Attorney General Ashcroft, overshadowed by a shiny metal booby

And I thought the war on drugs was a waste of my tax money…

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