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The party’s over. Yesterday, a D.C. Superior Court judge ruled that Peyton Brooks, the son of alleged bagman Howard Brooks, can invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying in front of Mary Cheh’s Committee on Government Operations and the Environment, effectively ending the public side of Sulaimania. (The Committee will be able to pose written questions to Brooks, but he can choose which ones he wants to answer, if any.)

In total, Cheh and Company listened to 26 hours of talk from 19 in-person witnesses — which, at nearly one and a half hours per witness, surely has to be some kind of record.

Good times, man, good times.