Michael Moore and the federal government have been circling each other for months, ever since it came to light that Moore might have violated the U.S. embargo against Cuba while filming his new health-care exposé Sicko. All that foreplay finally came to a head last night when Moore told Jay Leno–as well as the alleged millions who still watch The Tonight Show–that "the Bush Administration has now issued a subpoena for me." According to a press release from NBC, Moore then revealed that, prior to Sicko's release, studio head Harvey Weinstein pressured Moore to remove a scene from the film that cast negative light on Hillary Clinton's stance on health care. Weinstein just so happens to be a strong supporter of Clinton's presidential candidacy. In explaining his refusal to grant Weinstein's request, Moore told Leno, "I'm going to go after whoever is in power, doesn't matter if they are Democrat or Republican. I'm going to try to be a voice for people that don't have a voice."
Specific details of the subpoena weren't mentioned in the press release, and no news has been posted yet on michaelmoore.com.