Project 2025 laid the groundwork for Wednesday’s raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home

Follow up to FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home, via NeimanLab, “On Wednesday morning, the FBI executed a search warrant on a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of a probe into a government worker accused of illegally retaining classified information. The reporter, Hannah Natanson, has been key to the Post’s coverage of the Trump administration’s federal workforce overhaul. She was present when federal agents searched her home, seizing her personal laptops, phone, and Garmin watch. The Post also received a subpoena Wednesday morning “seeking information related to the same government contractor,” the Post’s Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck reported.

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In an email to The Post’s newsroom, Executive Editor Matt Murray called the search an “extraordinary, aggressive action” that is “deeply concerning and raises profound questions and concern around the constitutional protections for our work.”

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…

While it is not unusual for FBI agents to conduct leak investigations of reporters who publish sensitive government information, it is highly unusual and aggressive for law enforcement to conduct a search on a reporter’s home…”

See also via CJR Nothing Is Secure – The home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter, was searched by the FBI. Her devices were seized. Runa Sandvik, whose life’s work is protecting journalists’ digital security, assesses the damage—and what news organizations need to know.