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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking: Bannon lawyer was relaying info to WH from closed Senate meeting
Wh told them what to respond to Senate committee
Details to come
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/obstruction-bannon-lawyer-relayed-questions-to-trump-white-house-during-testimony-and-they-told-him-to-not-answer/
sfwriter
(3,032 posts)please...
SHRED
(28,136 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)angrychair
(8,733 posts)That was a classified hearing, heard in a SCIF, how was the lawyer communicating with the WH during the briefing? Did they give his lawyer a secure line to the WH in the briefing room? Even that doesnt make sense, a true SCIF has no outside connected listening devices i.e. a phone in them. Im confused...a closed hearing implies classified, which is always done in a SCIF.
Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)Just an office/conf room somewhere with no press or gallery. Cell phone would do it.
angrychair
(8,733 posts)A closed intelligence Comm briefing is considered classified by definition (why its closed) and is always done in the House Intel Comm SCIF.
I mean I get it if it wasnt classified but anything they would ask someone like Bannon would fall or likely fall into that category and therefore a SCIF would be required.
Plus any closed hearing would preclude access to communication devices in the hearing room traditionally.
Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)I think you're overstating things to get in a dig. "Closed" means inaccessible to the public or press. That's all. "Classified" is in the need to know range where you block telecommunications and such.
Semantics matter, and if we hear later that the session was actually "classified" I will recant.
unc70
(6,120 posts)CNN kept referring to meeting room as a SCIF during their reporting yesterday evening. This was while they were waiting for the hearing to end. They showed the doors to the hearing room while discussing.
The reporters had used the term classified when describing the meeting.
Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)Please explain, I'll wait.
(Media is not infallible, especially CNN )
unc70
(6,120 posts)angrychair
(8,733 posts)I cannot imagine a closed session to question Bannon about Russian campaign connections and money laundering, among other things, not being classified in context.
To be fair we dont know for sure but I think its a fair assumption given the subject matter and witness being interviewed but I will recant if we get a definitive answer.
See, peaceful and pleasant discussion without name calling.