During
ten hours of questioning by the House Intelligence Committee, on the
instructions of the Trump White House, Steve Bannon refused to testify
about his work for the Trump administration and the Trump transition
team. But the leaks tell us that Bannon did testify about his time working on the Trump election campaign for president.
So let me explain, as an attorney who worked for Judicial Watch under Larry Klayman and has more recently performed legal work for Klayman at Freedom Watch. The elites in Congress and the news media should know better.
The Washington establishment was all upset, as if this were something new or unusual. In the adrenaline-soaked, hyperventilating atmosphere of official Washington, this got everyone outraged.
Ranking Democrat Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and others demagogued the incident. As New York magazine reported: after Bannon's attorney, William Burck, conferred with White House officials, Bannon "doubled down" on his refusal to answer the committee's questions, according to Schiff.
So let me explain, as an attorney who worked for Judicial Watch under Larry Klayman and has more recently performed legal work for Klayman at Freedom Watch. The elites in Congress and the news media should know better.
The Washington establishment was all upset, as if this were something new or unusual. In the adrenaline-soaked, hyperventilating atmosphere of official Washington, this got everyone outraged.
Ranking Democrat Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and others demagogued the incident. As New York magazine reported: after Bannon's attorney, William Burck, conferred with White House officials, Bannon "doubled down" on his refusal to answer the committee's questions, according to Schiff.
"This was effectively a gag order by the White House preventing this witness from answering almost any question concerning his time in the transition or the administration," Schiff said.
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