DOJ presses for its own search of Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops

Federal prosecutors on Thursday urged a judge to overturn a ruling barring the Justice Department from directly searching a Washington Post reporter’s electronic devices seized as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of leaking classified materials.

The hearing in front of U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga in the Eastern District of Virginia marked the government’s latest attempt to convince the court that it should have the authority to conduct a tailored search of Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s phone, computers and other devices to look for information relevant to its investigation of the contractor.

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