根据一份新文件，检察官指控前总统唐纳德特朗普的前顾问史蒂夫班农试图通过媒体而不是在法庭上审理他的刑事案件，并要求法官限制班农在整个案件中可以公开发布的内容在
DC 地区法院。
班农试图说服法官不要禁止他和他的律师在审判前与公众分享他从司法部收到的文件。
司法部检察官在周日提交的文件中表示，在案件审理期间，其中一些记录必须保密，因为它们包括国会工作人员之间的内部通信以及联邦调查局对可能在审判中对班农作证的证人的采访记录。
“允许被告公开传播证人陈述的报告将产生证人篡改的附带影响，因为这会使证人在审判前接受对其潜在证词的公开评论，并允许证人审查其他证人叙述同一事件的陈述摘要或事件，”检察官周日写道。
班农被控两项藐视国会罪，罪名是未能回应众议院特别委员会发出的调查 1 月 6 日美国国会大厦袭击事件的传票，未能作证并交出文件。他已不认罪。辩护团队和检察官将于 12 月 7 日回到法庭，届时他们将讨论审判日期，并可能再次讨论案件的保密问题。
目前尚不清楚 FBI 就班农采访了哪些证人。
在新的法庭文件中，华盛顿特区美国检察官办公室的检察官阿曼达·沃恩、JP Cooney 和莫莉·加斯顿特别反对班农公开谈论他的案件，包括在首次出庭后在法庭外，他说他的法律团队对他的指控对拜登政府来说将是“地狱”。检察官还表示，他的律师没有像监督此案的法官所希望的那样，就该案的保密令提议进行善意谈判。
检察官写道：“辩方的误导性主张、未能授予、无法解释的全面反对和法外陈述清楚地表明了辩方的真正目的：滥用刑事证据在媒体上而不是在法庭上审理此案。”
DOJ moves to limit Bannon media circus over January 6 investigation
(CNN)Prosecutors have accused former President Donald Trump's ex-adviser Steve Bannon of attempting to try his criminal case through the media instead of in court and have asked a judge to limit what Bannon can release publicly throughout the case, according to a new filing in DC District Court.
Bannon is trying to convince a judge not to bar him and his lawyers from sharing documents he receives from the Justice Department with the public before his trial.
The DOJ prosecutors said in the filing Sunday some of those records must stay private while the case is pending, because they include internal communications between congressional staffers and notes of FBI interviews with witnesses who could testify against Bannon at trial.
"Allowing the defendant to publicly disseminate reports of witness statements will have the collateral effect of witness tampering because it will expose witnesses to public commentary on their potential testimony before trial and allow a witness to review summaries of other witnesses' statements recounting the same event or events," the prosecutors wrote on Sunday.
Bannon is charged with two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to testify and turn over documents in response to a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack at the US Capitol. He has pleaded not guilty. The defense team and prosecutors are set to be back in court on December 7, when they'll talk about a trial date and potentially discuss confidentiality issues in the case again.
It's not publicly known what witnesses the FBI interviewed about Bannon.
In the new court filing, the prosecutors from the DC US Attorney's Office, Amanda Vaughn, J.P. Cooney and Molly Gaston, especially take issue with Bannon speaking publicly about his case, including outside the court after his initial appearance, where he said his legal team would be on the offense and the charge against him would be "hell" for the Biden administration. The prosecutors also have said his lawyers didn't take part in good-faith negotiations on a proposed confidentiality order in the case, as the judge overseeing the case had wanted.
"The defense's misleading claims, failure to confer, unexplained wholesale opposition, and extrajudicial statements make clear the defense's real purpose: to abuse criminal discovery to try this case in the media rather than in court," the prosecutors wrote.
