When the Intelligence Committee meets with Bannon, they shouldn't limit themselves
to questions about the campaign, as Reuters is reporting.
Among other things, I hope they ask him about Erik Prince and his secret meeting in the Seychelles -- which an April WAPost report said was to set up a back-channel line of communication between Putin and Trump. Bannon is said to have been close to Prince during that time period.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-congress/bannon-to-appear-before-congress-committee-for-russia-probe-idUSKBN1F02MT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon will be interviewed next week by a U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
The interview behind closed doors on Tuesday with the House Intelligence Committee will focus on Bannon’s time on the campaign, not the transition or his time in the White House, the source said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel/2017/04/03/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.ec0bfbecb3d8
The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials.
The meeting took place around Jan. 11 — nine days before Trump’s inauguration — in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, officials said.
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