Special Counsel John Durham did yeoman work unraveling the Russia collusion deceit, though some skullduggery may still be hidden. That includes whether the Department of Justice disregarded the separation of powers to snoop on the House Intelligence Committee.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Thursday sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray seeking documents related to subpoenas issued in November 2017 to Google. The subpoenas demanded that the tech giant hand over the private records of two Republican staffers working for then-House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes. News of these subpoenas broke in December, after Google followed its policy of alerting customers five years after law enforcement action against them.

Mr. Jordan wants answers about the suspicious timing and nature of the Google subpoenas. In November 2017, Mr. Nunes was probing the origins of the FBI’s probe of whether Donald Trump had colluded with Russia. Mr. Nunes had revealed that the Hillary Clinton campaign had funded the infamous Steele dossier, and he was gearing up to issue a memo revealing the FBI’s abuse of wiretaps against Trump associates. The DOJ and FBI resisted Mr. Nunes’s request for documents, turning them over only under threat of contempt citations.

Mr. Nunes issued his memo on the FBI abuse in early 2018. Adam Schiff, then the ranking Democrat on the Intel Committee, released a rival memo with false claims that he said exonerated the FBI. The media at the time bought the Schiff...

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