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Democracy & Technology Blog Fielding’s Telecom Ties

Bret Swanson
January 8, 2007
Telecommunications

Fred Fielding, the new White House counsel, was also Ronald Reagan’s counsel and comes from Wiley, Rein & Fielding. The Washington Wire notes that the law firm

“is well-known for its telecom practice, which is led by FCC Chairman for Life Dick Wiley. One of his many protégés, current FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, has stocked the independent agency with former Wiley Rein lawyers and the two men remain close.”

Fielding will probably spend much of his time answering subpoenas from Henry Waxman, but I would bet he’s more tuned into the telecom market than was Harriet Miers. Could this move marginally heighten the White House’s interest in telecom and technology, which to this point has been less than intense?
-Bret Swanson

Bret Swanson

Bret Swanson is a Senior Fellow at Seattle's Discovery Institute, where he researches technology and economics and contributes to the Disco-Tech blog. He is currently writing a book on the abundance of the world economy, focusing on the Chinese boom and developing a new concept linking economics and information theory. Swanson writes frequently for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal on topics ranging from broadband communications to monetary policy.