FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter’s home on Wednesday as part of an investigation into sharing secret government information, officials said, in a move that press advocates said threatened journalistic freedom.
The reporter, Hannah Natanson, has covered U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign to fire hundreds of thousands of federal workers and shift remaining workers to implementing his agenda.
Attorney-General Pam Bondi said federal agents had executed the search at the request of the Defense Department. Trump’s Justice Department last year reversed a policy that had barred prosecutors from seizing records from reporters in most circumstances.
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