The aggressive attempts of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to undermine President Trump’s reelection have fallen flat against the MAGA movement that saw a big victory in November. In an apparent attempt at damage control, the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has now revealed that three of its officials leaked “non-public” investigation information to media right before the an unspecified election.
On Monday (December 30), the OIG posted a one-page investigative summary of its probe into complaints against politically motivated leaks about “ongoing matters” to select reporters shortly before an election. The leaks led to the publication of two news articles just days before the election.
The OIG summary of the probe stated that three senior former DOJ officials were found responsible for the leaks in violation of the department’s policies. The three unnamed officials were not working at the DOJ anymore when the OIG contacted them for an interview. The three either didn’t respond to the OIG correspondence or declined to be interviewed. The matter has been referred to the Office of the Deputy Attorney General.
With the trust in federal agencies hitting a historic low, the DOJ currently is one of the most publicly distrusted federal authorities as reported in Townhall (November 26). Conservatives are very aware of this distrust since the DOJ has repeatedly been shown to favor the left-aligned deep state. Leaking information to sway election outcomes is one of the many ways the DOJ has worked to undermine the conservative movement in the country. Newsweek acknowledged this partisan distrust of the DOJ in its recent story about the leaks in question:
Specifically, the DOJ has come under scrutiny from some Republicans who have accused it and other federal law enforcement agencies of weaponizing their authority and using it against President-elect Donald Trump.
Earlier in December, the OIG released a damning report about the FBI’s role in the January 6, 2021 events. As reported in The Western Journal, the OIG report admitted that the FBI had more than two dozen “confidential human sources” among the January 6 protesters on the Capitol grounds. The details revealed:
There were a total of 26 confidential human sources on the ground on Jan. 6. Of that group, four entered the Capitol and an additional 13 entered the restricted area around the building.
Reacting to the revelation, legal analyst and commentator Jonathan Turley questioned the prosecutorial process of hundreds of January 6 protesters in the light of this previously undisclosed information by the DOJ.
https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1867271115011502082
It’s interesting that the Department of Justice is seemingly admitting the political actions targeting conservatives and violations of its own policies right before Trump’s upcoming inauguration as the next President. Could this be an attempt to come off as fair and ready to work neutrally in the Trump administration? More importantly, are these acknowledgments enough to restore the public trust in the DOJ or do we need to see serious accountability and dig deeper into what still lies beneath the surface?