The new White House counsel is Richard Nixon's old deputy WHC. Talk about bringing back the dead. Could it be any more clear that Bush's presidency is just an extension of Tricky Dick?
Fielding is a senior partner at Wiley Rein & Fielding, a Washington, D.C. law firm. He has served the American government in a number of roles throughout his career. He served as Associate Counsel for President Nixon from 1970 to 1972, where he was the deputy to John Dean during the Watergate scandal. He was the Counsel to the President for President Reagan from 1981 to 1986. Fielding has also served on the Tribunal on the U.S.-UK Air Treaty Dispute (1989-1994), as a member of the president's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform (1989), as a member of the Secretary of Transportation's Task Force on Aviation Disasters (1997-1998) and as a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9/11 Commission).
Oh, and people, including his former boss John Dean, placed bets at one time, over whether he might have been Deep Throat. Funny, that. And why, prey tell, do the Bushies want Fielding? Two words: executive privelege...
"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."
Dean was on with Olbermann tonight, and said Fielding had to practically be dragged kicking and screaming into this job. It won't be pleasant.
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