I agree with the idea that putting these documents before the public is both a resource and a warning, but I really don’t think Congress or Judicial Watch (which has received others under FOIA) would have gotten them if AG Barr didn’t want them to be got.

When it was known in 2013 that the IRS had volunteered to harass the opposition and then played hide-the-ball with their own inspector-general (while their outgoing directed lied through his teeth to a congressional committee and Lois Lerner took the Fifth), that was the time for Jimmy Carter and the Bushes to speak. They said nothing. The lot of them can do the world a favor and leave public life.

I find the second objective particularly interesting, in that it recognizes that success is not just nailing the guilty, but first about convincing the AG that we are not going to let him sweep this mess under the rug!

And the magnum opus (which I would prefer were a bit less convoluted…):
https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/07/20/notes-by-peter-strzok-regarding-new-york-times-article-in-feb-2017-implicates-comey-and-mccabe-in-conspiracy/