[sneakypete]

....should we order glasses?

Not until Ashcroft starts growing hair in his palms.

[razorback-bert]

And it turns out that they were indeed ordered by someone in the attorney general's office, who delivered the request to the Justice Management Division and asserted it was the attorney general's desire. I'm told she was the only person in the attorney general's office who knew about it. She's his advance person, and she said it was done for "aesthetic purposes" — she just thought it would look better when staging events in the Great Hall.

So, a low level staffer gets to spent $8,000 of my money, to please her aesthetic vision.