So it wasn't just Bannon and his lawyer

The committee itself "had an agreement" with Trump. What a fucking surprise. And by "the committee", I mean Devin Nunes.

The White House believed it had an agreement with the House Intelligence Committee to limit questions for Steve Bannon only to events on the presidential campaign, and not during the ousted former chief strategist's time in the Trump administration, an official told CNBC.

According to the White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, staffers for the committee and the White House on Friday discussed the parameters of Bannon's testimony.

  CNBC

No fucking way. This is the most worthless, waste of time and money investigation they could possibly come up with.

The White House emerged from that conversation believing it had an agreement to limit the questioning of Bannon just to events during the campaign, and not during the transition period or his time in the White House.

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[H]ours into Bannon's closed-door testimony on Tuesday, Bannon's lawyers informed the White House from Capitol Hill that the questions would extend beyond the scope of what the White House understood the agreement to be. At that point, the White House told Bannon not to answer any further.

So, obviously, there is something they don't want Bannon telling. What kind of investigation gets parameters from the person being investigated? Ridiculous.

The committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, said the White House did not inform him or his fellow party members on the panel about such an agreement. "That was never conveyed to the minority," Schiff said Tuesday night.

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"And I think it came as quite a surprise to our entire committee frankly, apart from the majority staffer that was involved in that communication."

Gee, I wonder who that might have been.

At that point, House Intelligence Committee Republicans and Democrats joined forces to issue Bannon a subpoena on the spot to compel his testimony.

Which he refused to honor, on orders of the White House.

"Look, we've been completely cooperative throughout this entire process,"[Press Secretary Sarah] Sanders said. "We're going to continue to be cooperative. But we're also going to maintain some of the executive privileges here at the White House."

Look, cooperative means something other than what you think it means. It certainly doesn't mean telling the investigators what quesitons they can ask. No shit.

Unbelievable.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:  It's even worse than that!