Phone, Email Records Sought for Bannon’s Lawyer

“The Justice Department has sought phone and email records of a defense attorney who represented Stephen Bannon, the former adviser to President Donald Trump, in his dealings with a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and his subsequent indictment for contempt of Congress,” the Washington Post reports.

“Bannon’s team decried the collection of Robert Costello’s records, saying it may have violated attorney-client privilege, a bedrock principle of U.S. legal practice that says a lawyer must keep confidential what they are told by their clients.”