Bush Appoints former Nixon Assoc. Counsel & "9/11 Commision Member to Replace Meirs

[KoKo]

Could things get any stranger? :eyes:


from Wikipedia:
Fred Fisher Fielding (born March 21, 1939) is 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. As of Jan. 8, 2007, he had been picked by President Bush to replace outgoing White House Counsel Harriet Miers.

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).

He is the chairman of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest.

He was born in Philadelphia and raised in Mechanicsville, Pennsylvania. He graduated with honors from Gettysburg College. He then attended the University of Virginia School of Law.

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Veteran Washington lawyer named counsel

2 hours, 27 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A veteran Washington lawyer who has been through the legal battles of Watergate and served both Presidents Nixon and Reagan is
President Bush's choice to be his White House counsel.
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Fred Fielding's appointment was likely to be made Tuesday, according to a Bush administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the move has not yet been publicly announced.

Fielding will become Bush's top legal counsel just as Democrats, once again the majority party in Congress, plan to take a more critical look at the administration. From the
Iraq war to environmental policy and secret surveillance, the Democrats who now control both the House and Senate are armed with subpoena power and ready to summon panels of witnesses.

Fielding, a longtime Washington lawyer, will replace Harriet Miers, Bush's failed Supreme Court nominee and longtime adviser. She submitted her resignation Thursday after six years in the White House, and it will take effect Jan. 31.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070109/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_fielding

[Peace Patriot]

1. Fascinating! (--the 9/11 connection.) n/t

[KoKo]

2. and that Fielding was Deputy to John Dean during Watergate.

Also it was speculated for awhile that he was "Deep Throat."

I can't wait to see what John Dean thinks of this appointment. It's very odd. One would think Bush wouldn't want the "taint" of Watergate era at this time to be out there with this appointment when there's so much pressure for his own impeachment.

[KoKo]

6. kick..........

[Skidmore]

3. Old Nixonians never die, they just....

keep on wreaking havoc.

[Captain Hilts]

5. ...ran the most liberal administration this country's seen since! nt

[Captain Hilts]

4. They're 'lawyering up'. nt

[KoKo]

7. Lawyering UP with OLD Nixon Appointees? Give Me a Break...is this the

best they can do? :eyes: