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The Justice Department Saturday defended Atty. Gen. Dick Thornburgh`s use of government aircraft for private travel, including a trip to a convention in Hawaii aboard a Boeing 727 in which he and five assistants were the only passengers. The flight from San Francisco to Honolulu cost the government $38,000, according to a report Saturday in the New York Times. David Runkel, a spokesman for Thornburgh, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation ”has determined that for his personal security and the security of his
communications that he should travel by government airplane.” The FBI is a branch of the Justice Department, which Thornburgh heads.
