Hours after the FBI searched a Washington Post reporter’s home and seized her electronic devices on Wednesday, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press asked a federal district court in Virginia to unseal records related to the search warrant.
The Reporters Committee’s filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia calls the FBI’s execution of the search warrant “exceptional” and argues that “denying the public access to every word of every page of the government’s justification for raiding a reporter’s home cannot be justified.”
According to the Post, FBI agents searched reporter Hannah Natanson’s home Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into a government contractor charged with illegally retaining classified materials. After searching her home, agents seized Natanson’s personal laptop, a work laptop, a Garmin watch, and her phone. The Post reported that the newspaper was also served with a subpoena seeking information related to the same government contractor.
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