[Willie Green]

However, legal representatives for the scientists are still locked in discussions with the US Justice Department over what the researchers are allowed to do with the bones.

Hmmmmm....
The Justice Dept. lost in court, but they're still wasting taxpayers' money on this?
Sounds like it's time for Ashcroft to toss somebody's butt out onto the street.

[Jack Black]

Perhaps it's now the "Creation Science" types in Justice who are trying to protect their sacred beliefs. After all if scientific dating shows the skull is 9,000 years old it sort of bumps up against the Biblical Fundamentalists with there 6,000 year old Earth theory. Anyone know if Ashcroft is a "young Earth" devotee?