Daily Doc: No More Pizza, Ashcroft E-mail Says

As U.S. News correspondent Chitra Ragavan reported yesterday, former Attorney General John Ashcroft had to cancel a planned pizza party for political appointees from his tenure at Justice after it came out that the department's ethics office had raised suspicions about the gathering.

In an E-mail to the invitees, Ashcroft shows that he at least has a sense of sarcasm about the whole thing.

"Since I care about you, I do not wish to place you in the uncomfortable or awkward position of explaining the circumstances under which you ate pizza with me," he wrote.