The Judicial Watch ® MAY 2018 VOLUME 24 / ISSUE 5 A News Publication from Judicial Watch VerdictA News PublicationWWW.JUDICIALWATCH.ORG from Judicial Watch JW Files Two Lawsuits For Docs On Justice Department Officials’ Ties To Fusion GPS Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s wife worked for Clinton- connected firm Judicial Watch filed two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the Justice Department on March 1, 2018 for records about top Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s and his wife Nellie Ohr’s involvement in the Trump dossier authored by former British spy Christopher Steele (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:18-cv-00490)) and (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:18-cv-00491)). Until his dossier-related demotion, Bruce Ohr was the fourth-ranked official at the Justice De- partment and an Obama-administration contact for Steele. The House Intelligence Committee WIKIPEDIA See LAWSUIT on page 2 U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 3 JW Sues For Records Of Clinton Message from State Department Protocol Officer the President 6 Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Court Report Department of State on January 31, 10 2018 for emails, calendar entries Corruption and other information in the elec- Chronicles tronic file of Dennis Cheng, who was deputy chief of protocol for two 14 years under former Secretary of State Government Hillary Clinton (Judicial Watch v U.S. Uncovered Department of State (No. 1:18-cv- 00221)). Cheng was deputy chief of pro- tocol of the United States from July 2009 – July 2011. Following his ten- ure at the State Department, Cheng Malcolm Shabazz joined the Clinton Family Founda- Mosque tion as director of development, and 18 WIKIPEDIA then in April 2015 became finance In the Media U.S. Department of State headquarters, Washington, D.C. See PROTOCOL on page 4 Cover Story Lawsuit From page 1 memo released by Chairman Devin Nunes on February 2 says that Nellie Ohr was “employed by Fusion GPS Judicial Watch is a conservative, to assist in the cultivation of oppo- non-partisan American educational sition research on Trump” and that foundation that promotes transparency, Bruce Ohr passed along the results accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. of that research to the FBI, research Judicial Watch advocates high standards that was paid for by the Democratic of ethics and morality in America’s National Committee (DNC) and the public life and seeks to ensure that Hillary Clinton campaign. public officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuits in the United States District Court SHUTTERSTOCK Judicial Watch Board of Directors Chris Farrell, Tom Fitton, Paul Orfanedes for the District of Columbia after the President Donald J. Trump Editor Justice Department failed to respond www Carter Clews to two separate FOIA requests in De- Editorial Assistant cember 2017. “Steele admitted to Janice Rurup Judicial Watch’s December 7, Ohr his feelings against Senior Writer 2017 FOIA request about Bruce Ohr then-candidate Trump Dr. Larry Hunter seeks: Circulation Director when Steele said he ‘was John Albertella l All records of contact or commu- desperate that Donald Direct Response Marketing Manager nication, including but not limited Trump not get elected and Ariana Azizkeya to emails, text messages, and in- Graphic Design Consultant was passionate about him Jeanne Minnix stant chats between Bruce Ohr and any of the following individuals/ not being president.’” Production and Traffic Manager Tim Wathen entities: former British intelligence ~ House Intelligence Committee Public Affairs Director officer Christopher Steele; owner Memorandum Jill Farrell of Fusion GPS Glenn Simpson; www Member Services and any other employees or repre- 1 (888) 593-8442 sentatives of Fusion GPS; Fax (202) 646-5199 2017 FOIA request about Nellie Ohr Social Media l All travel requests, authorizations seeks: www.JudicialWatch.org and expense reports for Bruce www.facebook.com/JudicialWatch www.twitter.com/JudicialWatch Ohr; and l All records of contact or com- munication, including but not Send your comments and questions to l All calendar entries for Bruce Ohr. limited to emails, text messages, Editor, The Judicial Watch Verdict® and instant chats between DOJ c/o [email protected]. 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The Nunes memo notes that Editorial content may be duplicated with before Steele was terminated as a attribution and without permission. source “he maintained contact” with May 2018 l Vol. 24 l Issue 5 See LAWSUIT on page 4 2 The Verdict l MAY 2018 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Connecting The Dots On The Deep State’s Effort’s To Topple President Trump In 2016, the Clinton campaign and the DNC hired a firm — Fusion GPS — who used Russia intelligence sources to come up with scandalous and false allegations about then- candidate Trump. And rather than warn and protect Donald Trump from this Russia/Clin- ton disinformation campaign — the Obama FBI, under James Comey, and Obama DOJ, under Loretta Lynch, used the Clinton-DNC-Russia con- spiracy Dossier to target and spy on President Trump and his team. Remember — Obama used the IRS — and Robert Mueller’s FBI — to target innocent conservatives and Speech delivered by Tom Fitton potentate scandal. Oh, and yes, it is the Tea Party in 2012 to ensure his Conservative Political Action a Russia scandal. Because we know reelection. Is it any surprise that Convention (CPAC) Hillary and Bill took Russia cash — Obama would abuse the Deep State February 24, 2018 and wanted to cover it up. What again in 2016 to try to steal anoth- Good afternoon, CPAC! better way to do that than with a er election? Unmasking and then Judicial Watch is your watchdog secret email system! illegally leaking the names of Trump in Washington. We uncovered the Judicial Watch just forced the team members caught up in foreign Clinton email and pay-to-play scan- State Department to admit there was intelligence gathering would be an dals, and most everything we know classified information from Clinton incredible but unsurprising abuse by about the Benghazi and IRS corrup- email server on the laptop of Antho- the Obama administration. tion scandals. ny Weiner, including the identity of Let me suggest that Obama and By the way, the Clinton email a CIA operative. Clinton need to finally be questioned scandal isn’t over. The Clinton I know we talk about special about their collusion, their shady email/pay-for-play scandal is an prosecutors, but enough of that — I little Dossier, the leaking and the Obama scandal, a State Department don’t want new prosecutors, I want unmasking. scandal, a Justice Department scan- prosecutions. Stolen and destroyed Hillary Clinton and the Demo- dal, and a FBI scandal. It’s a shady records, violations of national secu- cratic Party tried to hide the fact that corporation scandal. It’s foreign rity laws — you name it — Judicial they gave money to GPS Fusion to Watch has compiled more than create a Dossier which was used by www enough evidence to justify the lawful their allies in the Obama administra- arrest of Hillary Clinton! tion to mislead a Court into allowing The Left, the Obama So, no wonder the corrupt D.C. them to spy on the Trump Team. gang, the Clinton Establishment would rather talk Now the ethically-challenged about their made-up garbage about Adam Schiff wants to put out a gang, the permanent Donald Trump and Russia. memo about his party’s Dossier. bureaucracy, the Deep Let me get right down to it, we I also want to read the Democrat- State and their allies have a rule of law crisis here in ic memo on the Democratic dossier Washington, D.C. paid for with Democratic party/cam- in the corrupt liberal The Left, the Obama gang, the paign money for use by a Democratic media all have targeted Clinton gang, the permanent bureau- administration to spy on the oppo- cracy, the Deep State and their allies nent of a Democratic presidential President Donald Trump. in the corrupt liberal media all have candidate. www targeted President Donald Trump. See MESSAGE on page 5 www.JudicialWatch.org 3 Cover Story Lawsuit Protocol From page 2 From page 1 Bruce Ohr. The memo states: director of the Hillary for America presidential campaign. “For example, in September 2016, Prior to joining the Clinton State Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings Department, Cheng was finance di- against then-candidate Trump rector in New York for Mrs. Clinton’s when Steele said he ‘was desperate successful campaign for Senate. that Donald Trump not get elect- Judicial Watch filed the complaint ed and was passionate about him after the State Department failed to not being president.’ [Emphasis respond to a December 21, 2017 in original] This clear evidence Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of Steele’s bias was recorded by request for: Ohr at the time and subsequently in official FBI files — but not re- [T]he PST file of Dennis Cheng.