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Well, this is awkward - GOP Email Scandal Explodes
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/12/clinton-attack-dog-chris-christie-accused-hiding-9428-emails-documents.html

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie loves to pontificate from on high about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton using a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. Christie has accused Clinton of not waning the public to know what she’s doing, saying “She believes we don’t have a right to know. When I’m president of the United States, you have a right to know what your president is doing.”

So it’s kind of bad that hours after Chris Christie puffed that he was uniquely qualified to “prosecute the case against Hillary Clinton” in the Fox Business GOP debate, papers were filed in federal court accusing him of hiding thousands of documents.

… Including emails. A lot of them. 9,428 to be exact.

Andrea Bernstein and Matt Katz laid out the case in WNYC:

Christie’s legal team is inappropriately hiding thousands of documents related to the Bridgegate scandal, the two defense lawyers argued in briefs filed late Tuesday. Among the hidden documents, the lawyers say, are emails to and from the governor’s personal and work email accounts and a calendar entry from the week when an order was delivered to close lanes at the George Washington Bridge in 2013.

The reporters note, “At least 16 of those emails were sent from top Christie aides to former Port Authority appointee David Wildstein, who pleaded guilty in May to felony corruption charges for the politically-motivated lane closures, and Bill Baroni, the former top Port official who has pleaded not guilty in the case.”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027336937