NEW: THREAD: a peek into what most people considered a “simple, open-and-shut” case in the Bannon indictment. So for just ONE of Bannon’s lawyers - Costello - advising him to defy the 1/6 committee subpoena. In the 22 days it took to indict Bannon: 1/
1. The DoJ sought Costello’s phone records from FOUR different carriers and email records from FOUR different carriers. They used a 2703 order instead of a subpoena because a 2703 order doesn’t always require notification of the customer. 2/
2. The DoJ ordered Costello’s text logs from the 4 carriers that show dates & recipients but not content. These orders were dated Nov 11, the day before Bannon was indicted. It’s not clear if all these Costello logs are just for Bannon’s case, though. Costello also reps Rudy 3/
3. AND, Costello sat for 2 interviews with the FBI AND DoJ on Nov 3 & Nov 7. So phone records from 4 carriers, emails from 4 carriers, and 2 interviews with 2 agencies. And that’s just ONE of Bannon’s 4 lawyers. Adam Katz, David Schoen, & Evan Corcoran are the others. 4/
All told there were over 790 documents for this ONE GUY ALONE. Did you hear about Costello getting interviewed? Not until now. Did you know about the 2703 orders for phone and email records? Nope. So you see, these cases aren’t as “open-and-shut” as we might think. 5/
Not to mention. We’re only finding out in court filings. Not the media or leaks or loudmouth witnesses. Here’s the source for all this, by the way. 6/ politico.com/f/?id=0000017e…
Now. Let’s take Meadows. If DoJ and FBI needed to interview the lawyer advising Bannon as part of their investigation into whether or not he was in criminal contempt, then who would they need to get records for and interview in Meadows’ case? 7/
Well, former Deputy attorney general George Terwilliger, for one. Meadows hired him last October to rep him in the 1/6 stuff. 8/ politico.com/news/2021/10/2…
Who else advised meadows to defy the subpoena? Trump comms guy Taylor Budowich made a statement about it. So did ex trump campaign lawyer Justin Clark, & former deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin. And possibly trump himself 9/ theguardian.com/us-news/2021/o…
So just think about the difficulty navigating the potential asserted privileges in that group, and how many documents and interviews and phone records need to be obtained and then reviewed. And we won’t hear a word about it if it’s done properly. END
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