DOJ moves to limit Bannon media circus over January 6 investigation

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Source: CNN

Prosecutors have accused former President Donald Trump's ex-adviser Steve Bannon of attempting to try his criminal case through the media instead of in court and have asked a judge to limit what Bannon can release publicly throughout the case, according to a new filing in DC District Court.

Bannon is trying to convince a judge not to bar him and his lawyers from sharing documents he receives from the Justice Department with the public before his trial.The DOJ prosecutors said in the filing Sunday some of those records must stay private while the case is pending, because they include internal communications between congressional staffers and notes of FBI interviews with witnesses who could testify against Bannon at trial.

"Allowing the defendant to publicly disseminate reports of witness statements will have the collateral effect of witness tampering because it will expose witnesses to public commentary on their potential testimony before trial and allow a witness to review summaries of other witnesses' statements recounting the same event or events," the prosecutors wrote on Sunday.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/politics/department-of-justice-steve-bannon-court-filing/index.html

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[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. Release of all evidentiary discovery to criminal defendant to the media so they can try

the case in the Court of Social Media, The Hon. Armchair Judges of the world render verdict?

Not to mention all witnesses being exposed to public scrutiny, and these days you know what is coming from the you know whom vile internet trolls (and ofc Fox will weaponize anything)…is why such pre-trial evidentiary disclosure to the defence is routinely NOT also open to the public.

[Justice matters.]

3. AND don't forget screwing up any potential Jury selections... N/T

[PSPS]

8. Yes, the usual Bannon strategy of "flood the zone with shit."

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. It would expose potential witnesses to harassment and even death threats.

But that's what Bannon and his lawyers want, isn't it? Tainted witnesses could arguably result in a mistrial.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Do we really need more Bannon media circus in this case?

I think not. Gross.

I am so sick of these criminals. Prosecute and jail.

[Historic NY]

4. Bannon is an avowed Leninist....no one seems to mention it

Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party, as the political prelude to the establishment of communism

[bucolic_frolic]

5. I can see the tactics of Leninism, the Jan 6 insurrection had November 1917 written all over it

But tell me how we get to the point of communism, unless you mean Soviet-style ruled by oligarchs instead of state bureaucrats?

Does he have anything to do with the IRA? Libertarians love a weakened State.

This is beginning to seem to me as much a fascist revolution from the Right as a coup d'etat which are traditionally in non-military regimes, orchestrated from the left.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. Believe the model is Russia, a dictator at the top with controlled media and elections.

Not in nutshell:

A massive all white State sanctioned church heavily embracing all things Putin, both backs heavily scratched.

The appearance of democracy but with real with control by a select few politicos backed up by a custom made or distorted federal constitution, co-joined by church, select media, military and invasive surveillance, censorship and propaganda.

America had all the elements of that toxic brew simmering on the front burner when Herr was president.

Except not the military.

[Captain Zero]

11. Bannon doesn't want communism, but he admires Lenin's TACTICS for

the overthrow of the Kerensky Government, a Republic, in 1917.
But I don't think he has a Trotsky to bring along enough key military units.
Flynn is psychotic.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. I have a few manky old socks to complete the effect and silence Bannon's public bloviating.

[MissMillie]

12. I smell a grift

Bannon wants to make everything public so he can raise money off of it. (of course, there will be something in the fine print on the donation page that says they don't have to use the donations for his legal defense, or that every donation is actually a monthly continuing donation unless the donor opts out of it... you know the drill).