Virginia Judge Halts FBI Review of Reporter’s Seized Devices in National-Security Probe
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A federal judge in Virginia barred the FBI from reviewing the devices seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson in a national-security leak investigation, preserving the materials for court review with a Jan. 28 response deadline and an early-next-month hearing; the ruling underscores First Amendment concerns and marks the first known instance of a reporter’s home being searched in such a probe.
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