Reading Room Document
Congressional Testimony by Presidential Assitants
This memo reviews the legal implications of an assistant to the president testifying voluntarily before a senate committee, and attaches three relevant previous OLC opinions on the subject. The memo advises that even testimony subject to a waiver of immunity "has some potential to undermine the legal basis of the immunity." The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at https://justice.gov/olc/page/file/1225991/download.
The OLC's Opinions
Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit