To me it was just kind of interesting.
If you check MD4Bush's posts you clearly see a subtle pattern of encouraging dishonesty and trickery to smear the opponents, then sitting back to see who would bite.
It then appears that when no one really went along, the emphasis changed and the NCPAC emails were provided to expose deeds that never took place and a plan that never existed.
If a reporter for a major newspaper was conspiring with a MD Democratic operative to manufacture a scandal to make Republicans look bad and get someone fired from their job, it's big news, whether the reporter was logging into the account or not.