3JohnDBurke
At the time it was the only chance to possibly exonerate him
4Olivermagnus
It seemed like they could use it to try and explain why they did the things they did. Sort of a Hail Mary pass.
5Maura49
It gave them a chance to offer proof of what the president had really been doing during the cold war years.
7Sergeirocks
Yes. It provides mitigation, to some extent.
8Andrew-theQM
It might help in the long term, but wouldn’t help in the short term.
9threadnsong
I think it helped. She would be able to side with him in case the documents were leaked which was to his advantage.

