{"id":81738,"date":"2017-08-23T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T19:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81738"},"modified":"2017-08-23T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T19:50:28","slug":"deep-state-trying-the-muzzle-steve-bannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81738","title":{"rendered":"<i>Deep State<\/i> trying the muzzle Steve Bannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Democrats warn Bannon against publishing classified information<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81739\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bannon-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81739\" class=\"size-large wp-image-81739\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bannon-1-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bannon-1-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bannon-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bannon-1-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bannon-1.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn Kaster AP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BY MATTHEW SCHOFIELD<br \/>\nMcClatchy DC Bureau<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have a warning for Donald Trump\u2019s former chief strategist Steve Bannon: Don\u2019t use your position at Breitbart to share classified and sensitive information you collected while at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Steve Bannon has an ongoing obligation to safeguard our nation\u2019s secrets, and he does not gain some kind of extra Constitutional protection just because he is now returning to a position in the media,\u201d said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the senior Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Cummings said lawmakers closely watch people in such positions after they leave high level security positions. He said Bannon should not guide<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Breitbart\u00a0<\/a>to publish information based on classified material he learned while working for the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he or anyone else in a similar position fails to meet this obligation and provides classified information to someone who is not entitled to have it, he could and should be brought to justice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Cohen, press secretary for Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Bannon faces strict limitations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=91440_pp&amp;videoId=32863637\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBannon is subject to all the same legal restrictions on sharing classified information to which he was exposed in his role at the White House as any other former government employee,\u201d she said. \u201cThose who violate those restrictions can be subject to prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bannon was ousted from the White House on Friday and quickly returned to the far-right website Breitbart, which he ran until joining the Trump campaign team in summer 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/898964640817983488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised Bannon\u2019s return\u00a0<\/a>to Breitbart on Twitter: \u201cSteve Bannon will be a tough and smart new voice at @BreitbartNews&#8230;maybe even better than ever before. Fake News needs the competition!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But inside the White House, aides are worried Bannon will use the position to attack the administration\u2019s policy. It was no secret that Bannon\u2019s policy positions were far out of step with those advocated by other Trump advisers, including the president\u2019 daughter Ivanka and her husband and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n<p>Many are expecting Bannon to lash out at those who fought him at the White House. According to Vanity Fair, Bannon is \u201cabout to go nuclear\u201d in his \u201cwar\u201d with Kushner. A CNN interview with the Joshua Green, author of \u201cDevil\u2019s Bargain,\u201d a book about Bannon and Trump, noted that Bannon is about \u201cto go buck wild\u201d in his criticism of \u201cthe establishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart on Monday, citing \u201ca source with direct knowledge,\u201d did expose a bit of White House intrigue. The site sought to blame the president\u2019s staff for Trump\u2019s seemingly casual \u201cthat\u2019s too bad\u201d answer to a question about the crash of the USS John McCain that left 10 sailors missing.<\/p>\n<p>The site noted that National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster had failed to brief Trump on the accident, meaning the president was unaware of the situation when he made his short statement.<\/p>\n<p>As one of Trump\u2019s closest advisers, Bannon had access to extraordinary amounts of classified information on inside NATO business, nuclear threats posed by North Korea and Iran and the strength of Islamic terrorist movements.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no need to expose sensitive or classified information to cause havoc in the White House. A Bannon\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/steve-bannon-unrepentant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview last week\u00a0<\/a>with the liberal-leaning \u201cThe American Prospect\u201d just before he left the White House reportedly infuriated White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>Among Bannon\u2019s opinions: \u201cThere\u2019s no military solution [to North Korea\u2019s nuclear threats], forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that 10 million people in Seoul don\u2019t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about, there\u2019s no military solution here, they got us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This sort of insider\u2019s view might upset members of the Trump administration, but it isn\u2019t classified information.<\/p>\n<style>.mcclatchy-embed{position:relative;padding:40px 0 56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%}.mcclatchy-embed iframe{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%}<\/style>\n<div class=\"mcclatchy-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/white-house\/article167967687.html\/video-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3><strong>Bannon out days after Trump defended him<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>White House advisor Steve Bannon has been ousted from the Trump administration just days after President Donald Trump defended him at a press conference. Listen to Trump&#8217;s comments about Bannon on August 16, 2017<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/congress\/article168481027.html\">http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/congress\/article168481027.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats warn Bannon against publishing classified information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}