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RELEASE BANNON: Congressman Demands Fed Dems Comply With First Step Act

He met the criteria for early release, so why is he still being held?

We live in a world where the Menendez brothers have a shot at early release from prison, while Steve Bannon is being denied it.

Steve Bannon is still serving time for another four days in his four month sentence. By law, he’s already supposed to be a free man. The reason? According to the First Step Act, Bannon qualifies for — and has earned — an early release.

And yet, authorities aren’t letting him out early.

They ‘don’t have time’ to process the paperwork.
No, really.

Surely it has nothing to do with the fact that Bannon is a ridiculously effective conservative communicator that is dangerous to liberal causes, right? —DailyWire

One Congressman is demanding his release.

Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) demanded the release of former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in a Thursday letter to Biden-Harris administration Bureau of Prisons (BOP) director Colette Peters that was obtained by The Tennessee Star.

Ogles accused the federal agency of “willfully facilitating the political persecution of the Democrat Party’s political opponents,” through its refusal to apply the First Step Act (FSA) good time credits accrued by Bannon, and demanded Peters take immediate actions to secure the former Trump adviser’s early release from prison.
[…] Ogles wrote in his Thursday letter to Peters, “Despite retaining eligibility for home confinement, the Bureau of Prisons chose nto to ensure a just, post-incarceration placement outcome for Steve Bannon,” and accused the federal agency of “baselessly” extending Bannon’s sentence because of his “prominent role in the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement,” before referencing reporting about Bannon’s incarceration by The Star:

In a letter obtained by the Tennessee Star on Monday, the Bureau of Prisons acknowledged that Steve Bannon would not be afforded the 10 days of good time credit he is entitled to under the First Step Act, as the Regional Reentry Management Office maintains it cannot process home confinement placements in under 30 days. While this bureaucratic explanation may be sufficient for an oftentimes complacent legacy media, millions of Americans will nevertheless see through this disingenuous explanation and raise questions as to why the Bureau is unnecessarily – and perhaps even illegally – imprisoning Mr. Bannon until only days before the 2024 general election.” — Tennessee Star

The formal language of Congressman Ogles’s letter called out Bannon ‘having to forego a benefit afforded to him under law’. He was polite enough to suggest it was for reasons we ‘could only hope to chalk up to the typical incompetence of a Washington Bureaucrat’.

That’s a lot more polite than the ‘blatantly corrupt weaponizing of government for political advantage’ that might show up if someone like yours truly were writing that same angry letter.

With less than two weeks to go before the presidential election, every day that can be used to persuade his audience is a big deal. And being held unjustly after receiving an already dubious sentence…?

If this is EXACTLY the ‘weaponization of the DOJ they keep telling us Trump will do to his enemies… how is it happening NOW, but didn’t happen four years ago?


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Wes Walker

Wes Walker is the author of "Blueprint For a Government that Doesn't Suck". He has been lighting up Clashdaily.com since its inception in July of 2012. Follow on twitter: @Republicanuck