The Prince of Darkness himself might be best-suited to write the foreword to former Vice President Dick Cheney's forthcoming book, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) suggested Monday.

Grayson, during an appearance on MSNBC, blasted the former Republican vice president for having attacked President Barack Obama's handling of defending the U.S. from terrorist attacks.

Cheney's attacks, Grayson argued, were only a tactic to gin up sales for his memoir, which is expected to be released this year.

"I wonder who's doing the introduction to his book?" Grayson said. "Maybe it's Mephistopheles; maybe it's Satan."

Grayson said that Democrats needn't be on the defensive when it comes to their handling of national security issues, arguing that it was Republicans in the White House and Congress who'd been neglectful of national security in the time preceding the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks.

A new website tracks government-run Twitter accounts from around the country.

The site, launched late last year, is called GovLive tweets says it tracks 68,031 tweets from 540 agencies.

The accounts are nearly all run by local governments.

The site bears some resemblance to sites like TweetCongress and Congressional140, which both aggregate and track tweets from members of congress and committees.

Check out this screenshot of GovLive tweets:

When Hillary Clinton accepted her nomination to be secretary of State, the Clintons agreed to make their donations list public. This was done to prevent any conflicts of interest with her new position as secretary, Wnyc.org reported.
 
Elton John is on the list of high profile contributors to the Clinton Foundation. John’s AIDS Foundation donated between $5 million and $10 million. Other contributors include celebrity entrepreneur Donald Trump and Coca-Cola.
 
Other notable celebrities who contributed to the charity foundation founded by former President  Bill Clinton include Barbra Streisand, Oprah Winfrey and Anne Hathaway.

Hilton Hotels headquarters will leave sunny Beverly Hills for the bitter cold Capitol Hill. The Washington Post reported that Hilton will move “several hundred jobs” to D.C., a plan that will make our region the center of hospitality. 
  


Hilton’s famous family has lived in Beverly Hills for years, but this move could prompt sisters Paris and Nicky to start making more stops in D.C. 
  


The transition has multiple hotel analysts expecting stepped-up competition between Marriott International, which already has headquarters in D.C. and Beverly Hills.

The individual, whose name has not been released, arrived at the White House with the official Indian delegation, which was being looked after by the State Department.

"This individual went through all required security measures along with the rest of the official delegation at the hotel, and boarded a bus/van with the delegation guests en route to the White House," the Secret Service said in a release.

There is no evidence that the individual made contact with President Barack Obama, the statement claimed.

A couple from Virginia, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, made national headlines last month when it was discovered they entered the state dinner and shook hands with President Obama.

The Secret Service is in the midst of an investigation into the security lapse.

Bonner's offices were closed on Monday after each received suspicious letters, according to a spokesman for Bonner.

Hazmat crews are on the scene at two of Bonner's district offices, in Mobile and Foley, Ala., according to a local CBS affiliate.

The letters were received this morning, Bonner's spokesman said, and they have been turned over to law enforcement. The offices haven't yet begun to reopen.

The Washington offices Sens. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) were targeted in live anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001. Anthrax scares have popped up occasionally with lawmakers in the years since.

The HBO series Big Love, chronicling the lives of a fictional Mormon family, will move their cast from Utah to Washington D.C. The third episode of the new season, which begins Jan. 10th, will have the series in the nation's capitol for multiple episodes.
 
Actress Sissy Spacek (The Coal Miner’s Daughter) will play a lobbyist who is determined to set herself as a fixture in patriarch Bill Hendrickson’s life. In September, actor Bill Paxton, who plays Hendrickson, and actress Chloe Sevigny, who plays one of Bill’s wives, were filming scenes in town, DCist reported.
 
The Washington setting could perhaps be due to the fact Bill is set to run for Senate this season.

Opinions vary on how much media exposure is good for a politician, but for freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) there's no debate: the more, the better.

As viewers of cable news channels will attest, Chaffetz seems willing to go on camera anytime and talk about anything.

And it appears that he is.

In a recent interview in the Desert News, Chaffetz described a typical conversation he has with a TV news producer:

'We've got this spot, can you be on?'  the producer will ask.

"I'll say yes, then ask what the topic is," said Chaffetz. "They love that."

He then offered up some sample praise from producers: ""You're so easy to work with," they'll say, and "we can count on you.""

Chaffetz, who starred in a CNN web TV show about life as a first year-congressman, speculated that he is one of only "a handful" of members of Congress who don't negotiate interview questions before appearing on live TV.

Most members are "so scared of going on television and having a YouTube moment," he said, referring to the possibility that a lawmaker's verbal gaffe becomes a viral video on the Internet.

That is clearly not a worry for Chaffetz, whose name brings up 269 unique videos in a quick YouTube search.

Chaffetz (pictured here granting a radio interview on the go) also mentioned his willingness to give reporters his personal cell phone number and communicate directly with them, sometimes even via text messages; a rarity in Congress.

So how has the national media reacted to his "more is more" strategy so far?  Chaffetz said they are "fascinated."