- Fri Apr 04, 2014 4:35 pm
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Eric Holder defends using Justice Department airplane for 27 personal trips. Attorney General Eric Holder disputed a Government Accountability Office report on his use of Justice Department airplanes for personal trips, saying it overstated the number of trips he took and failed to recognize that some trips were job-related.So Holder says he just used a Government jet for 27 personal trips so back off, it's not like he miss appropriated it on several hundred personal trips.
"My staff keeps telling me to take it easy, you know, well, this is one that gets me," Holder told Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing. "There was this notion that we've taken -- I think it was described as hundreds of personal trips. That was wrong. GAO counted flights, not round trips. And we looked at it and figured out from the time period that they were looking, we took not hundreds, but 27 personal, four combined -- official and nonpersonal trips -- and none of the trips that I took or that the [FBI] director took ever had an impact on the mission capability of those airplanes." The Government Accountability Office indicated the miss use of a government jet for even one personal trip has resulted in government employees being fined and terminated from government service. The matters are normally reported to the department heads and the DOJ who then take appropriate action.
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