On Wednesday, the home of a Washington Post journalist was raided by FBI agents who were ostensibly carrying out a search warrant to find evidence relating to a case involving classified documents.
Post reporter Hannah Natanson, whose reporting focuses extensively on the consequences of President Donald Trump’s attempts to fire workers and dismantle entire government agencies, was at her home when federal investigators arrived. Agents seized her electronic devices, including her phone and laptop computers, and searched her entire home as part of the raid.
Natanson has been told she is not the subject of an investigation herself, but that the search was related to the recent arrest of a government contractor named Aurelio Perez-Lugones, who has been charged with “unlawful retention of national defense information,” per court records. Notably, court documents do not allege Perez-Lugones had any connections to journalists, nor that he shared with anyone the classified documents he’s alleged to have taken.


