Dear Congressional Staffers: Nobody is too cool for the magnetometers. U.S. Capitol Police officers say they need more backing from their leaders to stop congressional staffers who insist on bypassing metal detectors when entering the Capitol with lawmakers. Several officers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told The Hill …

From the DCist via the AP: Just breaking now from the Associated Press (via NPR): James Von Brunn, the white supremacist who shot and killed security guard Stephen Johns at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in June, has died.

Ex-Rep James Traficant was released from prison today.  [beam him up] CNN affiliates KTTC and KAAL report that Traficant left the Federal Medical Center prison facility in Rochester, Minnesota Wednesday morning in a cab headed toward the nearby Greyhound bus station. A bus heading in the direction of his former …

Maybe this? Maybe grab himself a new toupe ? His options, like his new freedoms, will be limitless. HAPPY FRIDAY.

Clinton’s former COS got her contraband on recently. Betsey Wright, chief of staff under Gov. Bill Clinton and a long-time familiar figure in state and national politics, has been charged with 51 felony counts of attempting to take contraband items into the Varner Unit of the prison system, which houses …

Michael Vick was released from prison early this morning.  [woof]