Well, well, well...what is Mr.Bannon up to?
Not being railroaded by Adam Schiff , for starters, it seems.
And not wandering into the Mueller Witch Hunt grand jury hearing without an attorney nearby for consultation , in the certain game of "Gotcha" The Grand Inquisitor Mueller and the rest of the proven corrupt Obama Swamp KGB-FBI/DOJ Inquisition plan to try.
Sloppy Steve might well be playing "Trojan Horse", and planning to wreak a little havoc...ya know?
This might be veeeeeery interesting....and, maybe we'll get an idea about the grand jury, as well, and insight into whether the one seated by Mueller is as corrupt and biased as the rest of his Witch Hunt Inquisition has already been exposed as being.
Kind of like an "unmasking".....
Bannon refuses to comply with House subpoena
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon declined on Tuesday to comply with a subpoena ordering him to answer questions from a U.S. House intelligence panel about his time at the White House as part of its investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. election.
After Bannon initially refused to answer questions about the matter, Devin Nunes, the committee’s Republican party chairman, authorized a subpoena during the meeting to press Bannon to respond.
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Even then, Bannon refused to answer questions after his lawyer had conferred with the White House and was told again to refuse to answer questions about the transition period immediately after Trump was elected, or Bannon’s time in the administration, according to Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee.
Separately, the New York Times reported that Bannon had been subpoenaed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before a grand jury in a probe of alleged ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, on Tuesday.
Bannon spent hours on Tuesday meeting behind closed doors with members of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee. He was the latest high-profile figure to appear before the panel as part of its investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. election.
Bannon refused to speak not only about his time at the White House, but also any conversations he had with President Trump after he had left the administration “that might be for the purpose of the President seeking his advice on anything,” Schiff said.
“We expect to have Mr. Bannon back in, we hope very soon, with a different position by the White House,” Schiff said.
Asked if the White House had told Bannon not to answer certain questions, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said: “As with all congressional activities touching upon the White House, Congress must consult with the White House prior to obtaining confidential material.”
“We’ve been cooperating fully with these ongoing investigations and encourage the committees to work with us to find an appropriate accommodation in order to ensure Congress obtains information necessary to its legitimate interests,” she said.
Mueller’s subpoena, which was issued last week, could be a pressure tactic to induce Bannon to cooperate fully with his investigation.
Attorney Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, said the most likely reason for a Mueller subpoena of Bannon was that “he thought having an attorney present and giving Bannon a more relaxed setting would not yield the same testimony as if he got him in the grand jury room with no attorney there and a more adversarial style of questioning.”
A witness is not permitted to bring an attorney into a federal grand jury proceeding, but can step outside to consult with counsel.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1F5168
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