Ensign papers available

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a collection of documents it collected while investigating John Ensign of Nevada, who resigned a U.S. Senate seat in the wake of a sex scandal.

The 3,000 pages of print matter were obtained from the Justice Department by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and can be read at www.scribd.com/doc/250381920/What-CREW-Learned-About-John-Ensign.

Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, who was accused of being involved in paying off an Ensign mistress and was admonished by the Senate while escaping charges, is leaving the Senate and gave a farewell speech last week in which he said, “We need to be supporting and praying for” President Obama.