Emails made public by WikiLeaks on Saturday exposed the moment Hillary Clinton’s campaign learned, in late February of last year, that the New York Times was preparing a story about Clinton’s private emails.

Campaign staff and Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, did not appear to grasp just how much damage the story would ultimately do to her image when they concluded that the reporters “sniffing around” her private email use would not find anything.

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