“The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials. The reporter, Hannah Natanson, was at her home in Virginia at the time of the search. Federal agents searched her home and her devices. The warrant said that law enforcement was investigating Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a system administrator in Maryland who has a top secret security clearance and has been accused of accessing and taking home classified intelligence reports that were found in his lunchbox and his basement, according to an FBI affidavit.”

See also Dean Blundell – “Early this morning, federal agents executed a court-approved search warrant at the private residence of Hannah Natanson, a reporter for the Washington Post. The agents searched her home and seized multiple personal electronic devices, including her phone and other digital equipment used for reporting. Let’s be precise about what the government is claiming—and what it is not claiming. According to the Department of Justice, the search is tied to an investigation involving a government contractor suspected of improperly retaining classified materials. Natanson herself has not been charged, is not accused of a crime, and is not alleged to have possessed classified documents. The government’s position is that her devices may contain evidence related to the contractor investigation. It’s a lie. They are trying to chill her outreach to government employees who have been fired or suspended as part of Trump’s DEI purge. She just wanted to count on there being thousands of them…”