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It was Holder, as U.S. Attorney in D.C., who chose not to prosecute Ira Magaziner when he told the bald-faced lie that only federal employees belonged to Hillary's health care task force. (It was in fact rife with insurance industry types.) Holder's rationale? No one ever wrote down what "membership" in the task force actually meant.
No doubt Dick Cheney remembered this when he formed his energy task force.