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Whether you may legally adopt a policy within the White House that would require an attorney from the Counsel's Office to be present during interviews of White House staff by congressional investigators
White House counsel asked the OLC whether it could adopt a policy requiring required an attorney from the Counsel’s office to be present during interviews of White House staff by congressional investigators as a way to represent the institutional interests of the executive branch. The OLC concluded that the White House could legally adopt such a policy.
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