Podesta used this ploy when he got a job with the Syfy channel after WJC's last term. "We'll force GWB to release the UFO files..."
Gee, why didn't you bother when you could have walked into the Oval Orifice, and asked the Bent One to do it?
Oh, I see. No political or monetary value doing it that way.
The fact that he wasn't tarred and feathered after what he pulled at the Javits Center shows you that Democrats have no self-respect left.