NP - Cover Up

[David Morris]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000007343jan29.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation

WASHINGTON -- It's a Washington cover-up of a different sort.

The Justice Department has spent $8,000 on blue drapes to hide two giant 
partially nude statues in the Great Hall of the agency's headquarters, 
spokesman Shane Hix said Monday.

Drapes were occasionally hung in front of the aluminum Art Deco statues 
before formal events "for aesthetics," Hix said. The department used to rent 
the drapes, but has now purchased them and left them hanging. The drapes 
provide a nice background for television cameras, Hix said. ABC News 
reported that Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, a religious and conservative man, 
ordered the statues covered because he didn't like being photographed in 
front of them.


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