The White House Will Not Enact Privilege Over the Meadows Documents
President Biden‘s White House does not plan to shield documents related to former President Trump’s ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
White House deputy counsel Jonathan Su penned a letter to Meadows’s attorney on Thursday notifying him that President Biden would not assert executive privilege over the documents requested by the committee from Meadows, citing a “compelling need” by Congress to access the documents in the course of its investigation into the deadly attack.
“The President believes that the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield information reflecting an effort to subvert the Constitution itself, and indeed believes that such an assertion in this circumstance would be at odds with the principles that underlie the privilege,” Su wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill.
