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Don’t call them Nazis … but freedom of the press is now unAmerican.
FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move
The reporter covered the Trump administration.
FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move
The reporter covered the Trump administration.
“It’s a clear and appalling sign that this administration will set no limits on its acts of aggression against an independent press,” Marty Baron, the Post’s former executive editor, told the Guardian.
The reporter’s home and devices were searched, and her Garmin watch, phone, and two laptop computers, one belonging to her employer, were seized, the newspaper said. It added that agents told Natanson she was not the focus of the investigation, and was not accused of any wrongdoing.
In a first-person account published last month, Natanson described herself as the Post’s “federal government whisperer”, and said she would receive calls day and night from “federal workers who wanted to tell me how President Donald Trump was rewriting their workplace policies, firing their colleagues or transforming their agency’s missions”.