These revelations were embarrassing to Clinton's opponents, wrote the Washington Post . The Sun-Times quoted Rahm Emanuel, Stephanopoulos' successor, on the  From Day One I always thought this was politically motivated and had politics written all over it; after five years, it is nice to have the truth catch up with the president's political opponents.
Rahm Emanuel's thought on political motivation was not thought initially and had only become true once evidence had come forth.