Former FBI agent Peter Strzok obtained a court order demanding the Bill Barr and the office of the US Attorney General turn over all documents they possess relating to his firing and the office’s efforts to smear him in the press during the Trump administration.

According to Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes, the court ordered Barr and current Attorney General Merrick Garland to turn over any documentation and communications produced by the Department of Justice from mid-2017 through 2018 relating to his firing.

Strzok also will get records from the Department relating to media contacts relating to him and Lisa Page, a fellow FBI agent with whom Strzok had an affair.  Strzok specifically seeks information about conversations Sarah Isgur, the DOJ spokesperson during Barr’s time as AG, about Strzok and Page. 

The Trump administration and campaign prosecuted a PR war on Strzok, who was head of the FBI’s counterespionage unit, was fired in August 2018.  Strzok was also the lead investigative member of Robert Mueller’s special probe into the Trump campaign’s contacts with the Russian government and Trump’s subsequent efforts to obstruct justice.

Trumpians claim that Strzok and Page undertook a plan to damage Trump’s campaign in 2016 using information about the Trump campaigns contacts with Russians.  Trump claimed that Strzok and Page were acting on behalf of Hillary Clinton.

The FBI’s office of professional ethics recommended Strzok receive a 60 unpaid suspension and a demotion for having an affair with a coworker and for unprofessional texts between the two.  Then Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III fired Strzok after an internal Inspector General’s report found Strzok had violated minor Bureau procedures.