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</html><description>Unlike HJC, Oversight does not publicly release subpoenas when they serve them. So Mukasey's cowardly letter begging Bush to invoke executive privilege so he doesn't have to go to jail for shielding Dick Cheney's role in outing Valerie Plame is one of the first hints of the scope of what Waxman was after.</description><thumbnail_url>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/files/28/files//2008/06/july-10-meeting.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>
