The Weekly Standard is reporting that the Republican National Committee has filed a Freedom of Information Request for all “Benghazi emails between Obama’s reelection campaign and State Department.”

The letter from RNC attorney Jonathan Wacklawski requests “any and all emails or other documents containing the terms ‘Libya’ and/or ‘Benghazi’ dated between September 11, 2012 and November 7, 2012 directed from or to U.S. Department of State employees originating from or addressed to persons whose email addresses end in either ‘barackobama.com’ or ‘dnc.org’.”

This is important because the news of the Benghazi attack could conceivably have altered the outcome of the 2012 election — particularly had the alleged coverup now coming to light been revealed prior to the election. The emails from the campaign, if actually released, could show there was coordination between the DNC, the Obama campaign and the White House to spin the story in a way that was advantageous to the president-coordination which is illegal.

The problem for the RNC is that the Obama administration has an abysmal record of actually releasing information requested via FOIA.

Indeed, in 2011 the Associated Press found that this administration, far from its promises of being the most transparent administration in history, was the least transparent.

If the RNC can prove collusion between the White House and the Obama campaign, the fallout promises to be dramatic.