House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Henry Waxman wants to look into the Valerie Plame outing, citing a disclosure Scooter Libby made to the FBI in which Libby indicated to investigators that he may have been instructed by Vice President Dick Cheney to out Plame. Waxman wants the FBI to turn over records of an interview they conducted with Cheney during the course of the investigation that ended with the conviction Libby for perjury and the subsequent commutation of his sentence by President Bush.

In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Waxman said that recent revelations from Scott McClellan represent a breach of trust. In an interview with the Today Show last week, McClellan said the President admitted to McClellan that he authorized the leak of Plame's identity. In his book McClellan says Bush and Cheney "directed me to go out there and exonerate Scooter Libby."

Do not expect Mukasey to comply with Waxman's request for documents. Still, the move works for Waxman politically because he can continue to put pressure on the Bush administration at a time when the Plame outing is being re-examined in light of McClellan's book. If the administration blocks Waxman from getting the records he wants, he can argue that once again the're politicizing justice.