After the National Security Agency refused to give the OPR lawyers clearances, the head of the OPR shut his investigation down.

NPR: NSA Operations Remain Opaque to Investigators

Mr. Mukasey and Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip found so many errors in the report that they told OPR that the entire enterprise should be abandoned.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: My Gift to the Obama Presidency

In sum, OPR defends public reason liberalism without contractarian foundations.

FORBES: The Order of Public Reason

Instead the new attorney general let OPR's investigators run wild.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: My Gift to the Obama Presidency

OPR's investigation was so biased, so flawed, and so beneath the Justice Department's own standards that last week the department's ranking civil servant and senior ethicist, David Margolis, completely rejected its recommendations.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: My Gift to the Obama Presidency

Mr. MICHAEL SHAHEEN (Former Head, Office of Professional Responsibility): No one in OPR for the 24 years I was there was denied the necessary clearance, ever, and much less one that brought to a conclusion an investigation.

NPR: NSA Operations Remain Opaque to Investigators

In my case, he let loose the ethics investigators of the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) to smear my reputation and that of Jay Bybee, who now sits as a federal judge on the court of appeals in San Francisco.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: My Gift to the Obama Presidency