The issue focused on "derogatory and offensive" comments by Eustace O'Brien, a former medical director of the University of Texas at Austin's computer lab.

O'Brien was among about 20 state officials who left an email for President Obama in which he called then-Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn a "muckraking machine" and said that if she had been president, "our political system would be where it is today."

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