Ed Siskel is shown during a news conference at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in August 2017. At the time, he was corporation counsel for the city of Chicago, under then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced Siskel will be the new White House counsel. While in the Obama-Biden administration, as deputy White House counsel, Siskel helped craft the response to the congressional investigations into the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. (Associate Press)
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday tapped Ed Siskel to be the top White House attorney, picking a veteran of Rahm Emanuel’s City Hall and the Obama administration to be in place for election year GOP investigations and obstructive moves.
Siskel — nephew of the late Chicago film critic Gene Siskel and raised on the North Shore — is familiar with high-stakes congressional and other politicized probes.
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