The emails from D.C. government accounts ask recipients to text personal identifying information in order to receive additional unemployment payments.

After being briefed on an unrelated case, James Comey told Congress that the FBI learned of emails that “appear to be pertinent” to the investigation, though their significance remains “unclear.”

FBI Director James Comey called her handling of classified information “extremely careless” but said “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case.

The sex scandal involving former CIA chief David Petraeus has now engulfed another senior U.S. official, this one in charge of NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Sometimes PR people can pitch their products at the oddest times. Just ask Kwame Brown.

Thanks to Ken Cuccinelli and Rush Limbaugh, there are a lot of people out there who seem to be convinced that D.C. is smuggling its rats into Virginia.

While you’re busy wondering about Attorney General Peter Nickles’s political future, don’t forget our city’s other least trustworthy public servant! Reviving the local story that rocked early July, the Washington Post has obtained a bunch of old emails from the office of Ward 8 D.C. Council member Marion Barry, which show that Barry and his staff complained about the quality of the work his ex-girlfriend, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, was doing for them at the time.Barry’s…

D.C. Wire has a fantastic tidbit from a series of internal Office of Tax and Revenue emails between District CFO Natwar Gandhi and embezzler of $50 million Harriette Walters. The emails, written in April of 2007, about seven months before the scandal broke, came about after Gandhi sent out an announcement to his employees letting them know that had decided not to accept an offer to become Amtrak’s CFO. Walters replied to Gandhi’s staff-wide email…

The Examiner’s Bill Myers managed to get a hold of a bunch of internal MPD emails concerning last summer’s controversial “Neighborhood Safety Zone” checkpoints in Trinidad, and the resulting story paints a chaotic picture of disagreement and confusion over the tactic within the department. A series of emails written by Assistant Chief Diane Groomes complained that the additional officers sent to staff the Trinidad checkpoint had left areas of the city under-protected. You can download…