BUSH ADMIN Hires Nixon's Top Lawyer To Handle Legal Fights With Dem Congress

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White House brings in Nixon-era lawyer
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
Thu Feb 22, 2007


WASHINGTON - In his first job at the White House, Fred Fielding, barely in his 30s, broke the news to President Nixon's top lawyer about the Watergate break-in.

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Now, more than two decades later, President Bush has brought the 67-year-old lawyer back to handle legal fights the White House expects with the new Democratic Congress.

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Still, he insists he has no interest in stonewalling Democrats, who plan to investigate the Iraq war, suspected government fraud and White House decision-making on environmental policy, secret surveillance and other matters. The White House could erect roadblocks to congressional subpoenas and requests for information.

"Then nobody gets anything done," said Fielding, who has a tiny motorized train on his desk that runs in a circle on its way to nowhere. "If they need information and we can provide them information consistent with not giving away the executive branch prerogatives, then we'll find a way."

In responding to congressional requests for documents, Fielding will be conferring at times with Vice President Dick Cheney and his chief of staff, David Addington, who have broadly interpreted the powers of the presidency. Cheney has argued that executive privilege, which lets the president seek advice and deliberate policy without having to disclose the information, has been eroded by Congress in response to the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.

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[Democrat 4 Ever]

1. Good, he did such a great job for Nixon. /sarcasm off

Just proves that old reichwing nuts never go away they just live in a mansion somewhere until a new Republic scandal requires their expertise. And they always have scandals. It is what defines the Republics. There are leagues of reichwing nuts who love the "rule of law" as long as it doesn't apply to them thus the need for the vast reichwing roll call of attorneys.