Was the primary reason for the raid actually the confiscation of her notes to see who her sources were, and the investigation of guns owned by her husband just used as an excuse?
The firearms raid seems to be bogus, too, although the Maryland State Police told Pappas that her husband’s Facebook account showed evidence of illegal possession of firearms. Hudson’s husband has a conviction for resisting arrest from 1986, and that prevents him from owning firearms in Maryland. It doesn’t prevent Hudson herself from owning them, but the police confiscated her six legally-purchased firearms anyway. There seems to be no rational reason for seizing any paperwork at all, let alone her own notes; Hudson told Pappas that she had no classified documents at all in her possession, and at any rate the search warrant doesn’t cover that kind of confiscation.
Does the Maryland State Police usually troll Facebook to find illegal possession of firearms? Or is it more likely that DHS instigated this as a way to go after a longtime critic and reporter of the agency? This certainly doesn’t look like a coincidence, and perhaps Congress might want to look into what looks like a gross abuse of power to silence reporters and punish whistleblowers.
That is strongly suspected but of course the feds and police would never admit that.