Pope Francis’ visit has been a real boon for people who really follow the news. To be sure, the pontiff’s dominance of headlines and airtime has spread his message of hope and his critique of materialism. But beyond that, it has also given Washingtonians a chance to leak bad news when they think everyone is distracted by something else.

On Tuesday, as the pope arrived, the State Department finally came come clean about another untruth former Secretary Hillary Clinton has been telling for months about her emails. On at least eight occasions, Clinton has said the State Department approached her last fall with a routine request for her emails. As she put it Sunday, “When we were asked to help the State Department make sure they had everything from other secretaries of state, not just me, I’m the one who said, ‘Okay, great, I will go through them again.'”