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White House Picks Counsel: Fred Fielding
Time's Mike Allen has the scoop:
President Bush plans to name the widely respected Republican lawyer Fred F. Fielding as White House counsel this week, party sources tell TIME....Fielding was Counsel to President Reagan from 1981 to 1986, deputy White House counsel from 1972 to 1974 and associate White House counsel from 1970 to 1972. He was Clearance Counsel for the Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition in 2000 and 2001, and has degrees from Gettysburg College and University of Virginia School of Law....
"The key for the Administration is going to be drawing the lines on these boundaries of executive privilege and access to documents and congressional oversight — drawing the lines around the really important issues and trying to be a little more flexible on the others," said a former colleague of Fielding. "They're not going to fold, because Fielding is a very serious, hard-nosed person, and he's a tough negotiator. But they're also going not to take a totally stonewall position. That doesn't meant they're going to cave in. What it means is they're going to negotiate and focus on the things that they're truly protecting and that are truly important."
Well, given that he was John Dean's deputy during Watergate, he's no stranger to scandal.
Comments (23)
Anonymous wrote on January 8, 2007 3:34 PM:He would be well-advised to recuse himself when anything regarding 9/11, Iraq (the two are not linked!) or related intelligence comes up.
He was, after all, a 9/11 commissioner and should be wary of that HUGE conflict of interest.
karen marie wrote on January 8, 2007 3:37 PM:... "a politically savvy outsider with ties throughout the capital and in Congress" ... (from the earlier "story" about who they were looking for)
can anyone say o-x-y-m-o-r-o-n?
oldtree wrote on January 8, 2007 3:45 PM:wonder why time would use such a term as "well respected" when doing a news story? that is not reporting, it is a campaign statement from the GOP. Is time telling us they work for the GOP now, full time?
oldtree wrote on January 8, 2007 3:46 PM:the man is hardly respected, and to consider the person that appointed him, neither is he well.
excuse my error, "widely accepted". perhaps he is obese?
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