Department of Justice emails obtained in a document dump reveal reporters for major U.S. publications privately downplaying a key story in the 2016 election, one that reflected poorly on the Obama-era Department of Justice and the Clinton family.

The American Center for Law and Justice published the emails last week, which were acquired through a Freedom of Information Act Request. The emails center around then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac of the Phoenix airport last June. As the Washington Examiner‘s Eddie Scarry reported:

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