Court Documents Suggest The Inspector General Might Not Be Investigating Bruce Ohr’s Role

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The judge’s rejection of the DOJ’s reliance on the law enforcement privilege is interesting for another reason that has escaped notice. In analyzing the FBI’s argument, the judge noted that the FBI had claimed that complying with the subpoena would require revealing “previously undisclosed details about an ongoing law enforcement investigation.”

The court then dropped a footnote, footnote 9, that added the DOJ had not argued the disclosure would likewise affect an ongoing “governmental self-evaluation” or “interdepartmental disciplinary proceedings”—factors that would support the government’s position.

The DOJ’s failure to argue that the requested disclosure would interfere in an ongoing internal review is surprising given that the Office of Inspector General is currently investigating the DOJ and FBI’s “relationship and communications” with Steele as they relate to the Carter Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court applications. In those applications, the DOJ claimed, it had suspended Steele around October 2016 for leaking to the press and later closed Steele as an FBI source—even though at the time the applications were submitted to the FISA court, Steele appeared to be feeding “intel” to the FBI through Ohr.

That does not necessarily mean Inspector General Michael Horowitz is not looking into Ohr’s role in Spygate, but just to be sure he is, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and concerned members of Congress should expressly request Horowitz investigate Ohr’s role as a backdoor conduit to the FBI for Steele.

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