Sen. Coburn Hands Over Emails to Feds

Watch out, GOP public-relations teams: Republican Sen. Tom Coburn has handed over emails to federal authorities investigating an extramarital affair that Sen. John Ensign had with a campaign aide. This could be good news—Coburn’s cooperating with the Justice Department, after all—but it provides another blow to the embattled Ensign and, possibly, the Republican Party. “We’ve given them everything they wanted,” Coburn, referring to the Justice Department, told Politico. What makes this all the worse for Ensign: At the time of the affair, Coburn was Ensign’s roommate in a townhouse on Capitol Hill. Sources familiar with the investigation say the probe is focused more on Doug Hampton, though, whose wife, Cynthia, carried on the nine-month affair that ended in August 2008. Of the affair, Coburn said on Thursday, “We didn’t do anything inappropriate.”