By Emma Schwartz, Legal Times
Now it’s Fred Fielding’s move.
Congressional Democrats have always believed that the Justice Department’s plan to fire eight U.S. attorneys began in the White House, and last week they proved willing to take their investigation to its doorstep by subpoenaing two former Bush aides.
The White House has yet to say whether it will assert executive privilege over the testimony sought from its former public affairs director, Sara Taylor, and former White House counsel and one-time Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers.
But Fielding, the White House counsel, hasn’t budged from his first response to congressional inquiries in March. His position is simple: no transcripts, no oath and no public testimony – and any questions must be restricted to discussions between White House officials and the Justice Department. Internal White House deliberations are off-limits.