house aides to communicate with news organizations even if they involve a former client. bannon was the head of breitbart, a far right website and before the white house issued the waiver bannon was subject to the ethics pledge barring him from communicating with breitbart and this waiver could get him off the hook because the white house made the waiver retroactive back to day one of the trump administration. that mans bannon could have violated the original pledge and this waiver covers prior conversations. now, the head of the office of government ethics flatly told mow said there's no such thing as a retroactive waiver. if you engage in prohibited conduct without the waiver you've violated the rule and issuing a waiver after the fact won't change that. look, the focus on bannon, as you pointed out, is key here because ethics experts are worried he's using breitbart as