Posted on 01/14/2026 10:47:10 AM PST by Morgana
Jan. 14 (UPI) — The FBI raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson on Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into a government contractor.
The FBI executed a search warrant at Natanson’s home, seizing electronic devices including a phone and laptop computers and a Garmin watch, The Washington Post, CNN and The Hill report. The reports are based, at least in part, on unnamed sources.
The investigation centers around a government contractor who has allegedly retained classified government materials. Natanson was informed that she is not the focus of the probe, unnamed sources told the Post and CNN.
According to the warrant, the FBI is investigating Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a system administrator from Maryland with a contract with the Pentagon who has top-secret security clearance. The FBI alleges Perez-Lugones has been taking classified reports home and keeping them.
Natanson was then allegedly reporting on the leaked information, Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on social media.
“This past week, at the request of the Department of War, the Department of Justice and FBI executed a search warrant at the home of a Washington Post journalist who was obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor,” Bondi wrote. “The Trump administration will not tolerate illegal leaks of classified information that, when reported, pose a grave risk to our Nation’s national security and the brave men and women who are serving our country.”
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Did he have highly confidential national security codes, messages from Kim Jung-Il, and nuclear codes?
Cause WaPo was all in on FBI raiding an actual President’s home for those things.
Hopefully using a SWAT team at 04:00...
It was rumored that the Venezuela operation was leaked to the press beforehand. This may be related to that.
Well the name sure checks out. Lugones is a common name in Venezuela and Colombia.
Is Aurelio no longer running his chop shop?
Perez-Lugones now faces a maximum of 10 years in prison upon conviction for the charge of “unlawful retention of national defense information.
No early out for good time while in prison examples must be made.
Oh boy!
Of course, the press will scream about the 1st Amendment, and “the free press”. Does the first amendment protect a journalist conspiring with a traitor to leak classified information to damage or overthrow a Presidential Administration? Does a press pass grant the holder access to classified information? Is the press exempt from being investigated for criminal acts?, No, No and No.
Did anyone figure out what company the contractor worked for?
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