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, seizing her phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch. One of the laptops was her personal computer, the other a Washington Post-issued laptop.
Investigators told Natanson that she is not the focus of the probe. 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.
The Daily Beast‘s report on what appears to be yet another Trump Regime attack on journalism reminds up about FBI capo Kash Patel’s reputation:
The shock move is a new low in Trump’s crackdown on the media.
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Kash Patel’s tenure as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been marked by high-profile gaffes. Patel, whom the Daily Beast has nicknamed ‘Keystone Kash’ for his bungling performance, was criticized for rushing to social media to tout his agency’s work on tracking down a person of interest in the Charlie Kirk shooting prematurely.
After the shooting, Patel reportedly refused to get off a plane without an FBI raid jacket and ended up wearing one nabbed from a female officer. He reportedly decorated it with patches from other agents.
A scathing 115-page report compiled by a national alliance of retired and active-duty FBI special agents and analysts declared that Patel is “in over his head” and leading a “chronically under-performing” agency paralyzed by fear and plummeting morale.
Trump has a particular vendetta against the Post. Before he was elected in 2024, he warned the paper “ought to clean up their act.”
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