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BREAKING: JW today announced it filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ for records about the agency’s involvement in persuading President Trump to defer his September 2018 decision to declassify DOJ documents related to the Russia investigation (1/5).

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JW’s lawsuit is also seeking DOJ official Bruce Ohr’s records of communications around the time of Trump’s declassification announcement. Ohr was a key conduit between anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele and the FBI (2/5).

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Judicial Watch President @TomFitton : We have little doubt the Deep State DOJ is improperly trying to cover-up FISA abuse and other Russia hoax documents that President Trump initially ordered declassified. Trump should declassify the documents (3/5).

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JW recently released 339 pages of redacted records from the DOJ, which reveal that former Associate Deputy AG Bruce Ohr remained in contact w/ former British spy & Fusion GPS contractor Christopher Steele after Steele was terminated by the FBI (4/5)

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Judicial Watch also uncovered that the DOJ admitted in a court filing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the FISA spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page (5/5)

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NEW: JW announced it received 339 pages of heavily redacted records from the DOJ which reveal that former Associate Deputy AG Bruce Ohr remained in regular contact Christopher Steele after Steele was terminated by the FBI in November 2016 (1/3)

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The records show that Ohr served as a go-between for Steele by passing along information to “his colleagues” on matters relating to Steele’s activities. Ohr also set up meetings with Steele and regularly talked to him (2/3)

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Judicial Watch President .@TomFitton : These smoking gun documents show that Steele, a Hillary Clinton operative & anti-Trump foreign national, secretly worked hand-in-glove with the DOJ on its illicit targeting of President .@realdonaldTrump (3/3)

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BREAKING: JW filed an amicus curiae brief in the SCOTUS asking it to reverse a decision by the 4th Circuit which ruled that govt recognition of a WWI memorial cross is in violation of the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment of the Constitution (1/3)

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JW announced today that it filed a FOIA lawsuit against the U.S. DOJ for all records of communication of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former AG Jeff Sessions, and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein discussing the 25th Amendment (1/3)

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On February 14, 2019, former acting FBI Director McCabe stated in an interview with CBS that there were discussions about removing Trump under the 25th Amendment and confirming that Deputy AG Rosenstein offered to wear a wire around @realDonaldTrump (2/3)
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“This effort to overthrow President Trump is a fundamental threat to our constitutional republic so Judicial Watch will do everything it can in the courts to expose everything possible about this lawlessness,” said JW President Tom Fitton. (3/3)

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