Emails: Clinton’s campaign welcomed the dark-money cavalry

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When David Brock announced that his super PAC, Correct the Record, would coordinate directly with Hillary Clinton, he raised eyebrows. While some saw the setup as “shady,” Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta (whose opinion of Brock is not exactly favorable) saw it as an opportunity.

A May email exchange released by WikiLeaks shows that for all of Clinton’s complaints about dark money in politics, her campaign was pretty happy about this. What she opposes in public, she’s more than eager to embraces in private.

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