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What Sirica did...
Before Nixon caved, Sirica was going to cite him for comtempt and fine him personally. His logic was the potential criminality involved outweighed any claims of privilege. The use of Executive Privilege was supposed to be extremely narrow and was only relevant to the info NOT under investigation. In other words, for a converstation that covered Vietnam and Watergate, the Vietnam part would be covered, the Watergate part wasn't. His big difficulty was separating those two parts. He relied the 1800 Aaron Burr treason case. This is all in his book about Watergate.
His book is very instructive, Glenn, you might want to check it out.