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Posted on 01/14/2026 6:29:16 AM PST by DFG
The FBI executed a search warrant on the home of a Washington Post reporter as part of an investigation into the leaking of government secrets.
The reporter, Hannah Natanson, was at her home in Virginia when federal agents descended on her home on Wednesday morning, the Washington Post said.
The outlet said Natanson was raided as part of a probe into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials, and she had her home and devices searched.
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If she had a functioning brain, then all of that would be encrypted, but we’re talking about a female Washington Post reporter, so it’s probably in a folder on her desktop labeled “stolen government documents.”
Apparently, l/e is investigating a latino “govt system administrator” in Maryland.....Aurelio Perez-Lugones..... who had a top-secret security clearance and has been accused of accessing and taking home classified intelligence reports.
Natanson wrote a first-person account in December 2025 about her experience talking to federal employees who were sharing their experiences with the Trump administration’s reshaping of the government. In that article, she quoted a Defense Department worker who messaged her saying, “I understand the risks... But getting the truth and facts out is so much more important,” and a Justice Department staff member who wrote, “I’d never thought I’d be leaking info like this”.
It is unusual and considered aggressive for law enforcement to search a reporter’s home as part of a leak investigation, as reporters typically have a right to protect their sources under the First Amendment.
Investigators told Natanson she is not the focus of the investigation, which is looking into Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a Maryland system administrator who has top secret security clearance.
Two major memories I took from reading that book:
She probably wears boxers and doesn't shave her armpits.
Doubt it.
That's all fine and dandy, but if she kept sensitive documents and is caught in possession of them that isn't going to help her much.
She sure doesn’t like Trump.
Here is some of her work:
https://muckrack.com/hannah_natanson/articles
Have the “ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE THE PRESS!” screeches started yet?
Makes it sound like she was menaced by wasps.
No, they don’t
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-85
Branzburg v. Hayes
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/408/665/
The fact that reporters receive information from sources in confidence does not privilege them to withhold that information during a government investigation; the average citizen is often forced to disclose information received in confidence when summoned to testify in court.
She's got a profile on BlueSky, too.
Want to bet she calls the dog "our fur baby"?
about F-ing time to seriously go after leakers ...
The first amendment doesn’t mean you can break the law.
This is constitutionally bogus. "Reporters" shouldn't have a privilege to flout the law. There is nothing in the Constitution that gives "reporters" any greater privileges that other citizens.
You are, and any citizen is, just as much a "reporter" as any of the lowlifes employed by the gaslight media.
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