[DannyTN]

Possibilities:

• To build public knowledge and support for an enforcement action.
• As a distraction from wikileaks.
• To prove that not all of the WJC Foundation's money came from PayForPlay schemes. Some came from selling pardons.
• Do build email weariness.
• To admit to FBI wrongdoing before they can be accused of a coverup.
• Abraham Lincoln made them do it.

[Styria]

It makes it a lot harder for Obama to issue a pardon for the crime of pardoning in exchange for a bribe. It will make him look suspect too.