FBI Searches Home of Washington Post Reporter in Classified Documents Probe
The DOJ charged Aurelio Perez-Lugones last week for illegally retaining classified documents.
The FBI executed a search warrant at the home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter, as part of an investigation of a contractor supposedly having classified documents.
WaPo reported that agents searched Natanson’s home and seized her phone, personal laptop, WaPo-issued laptop, and a Garmin watch:
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.
Natanson covers the federal workforce and has been a part of The Washington Post’s most high-profile and sensitive coverage during the first year of the second Trump administration.
WaPo and The New York Times appeared to take shots at the Trump administration, with the latter saying that it’s “exceedingly rare” for federal agents to search the home of a reporter.
But the Times added at the very end:
In typical leak investigations, a reporter is not a target for prosecution but can be viewed as an avenue for obtaining evidence against the person suspected of leaking information.
Duh.
According to Fox News, Perez-Lugones, an American citizen from Miami, lives in Laurel, Maryland.
Perez-Lugones has worked as a government contractor since 2002, with a top-secret security clearance.
The Baltimore Sun reported that the DOJ charged Perez-Lugones last week for illegally retaining classified documents.
The FBI searched Perez-Lugones’s home and vehicle, allegedly finding “documents related to national defense.”
More from the report:
Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a system administrator at an undisclosed contracting company in Annapolis Junction near Fort Meade who has a “Top Secret” security clearance, is accused of accessing and taking home classified intelligence reports that were found in his lunchbox and his basement, according to an FBI affidavit.
The contractor did not have a defense attorney listed in court records.
The affidavit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, says Perez-Lugones logged into a classified system and took notes on a notepad throughout this week, then took the pages home. It also details the Navy veteran’s use of databases last fall to view and take a screenshot of a classified intelligence report about a foreign country, only identified as “Country 1.”
“Perez-Lugones had no need to know and was not authorized to search for, access, view, screenshot or print any of this information,” the affidavit says.
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Interesting, no doubt…but we want more info on the capture of Maduro and Clinton failing to show for a deposition.
good 🙂
also,,secret service agent for vance who is a loyal fjb supporter busted for divulging info
A Secret Service agent assigned to JD Vance has been put on leave after he spilled ‘sensitive details’ about his job protecting the vice president.
The agent, who has not been identified by Secret Service, revealed the secrets on a date with a woman who was really an ‘undercover journalist’ working for conservative influencer James O’Keefe.
The agent reveals important information regarding the vice president’s travel schedule and told her various advanced security tactics, in a video released just days after Vance’s Cincinnati home was attacked.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15461973/Secret-Service-agent-JD-Vance-leaking-sensitive-details.html
the communists are in charge and the “un american” committees of years past has prbably changed to “get the maga” committee ala jan 6 hoax
“an american citizen”
hmmmmm
the odds are stacked against maga as never before
at the local level people live in fear of the blmplo city council takeovers as cities have resorted to changing stats/how they are kept/calculated to angle against djt
the inner workings of the communistnazi gangs is so deep into the system that you cant even get the gop to stop helping the lefts takeover as they too fear becoming “just another citizen” and would rather sacrifice us so that can remain in the good graces of their aoc mamdami rulers
The WaPo reporter promptly sang a song about how critical her job was, and the long list of disgruntled Feds who sent her detailed Signal messages on how the Trump administration was a ball of failure, which she mindlessly parroted onto paper without checking to see if these were just weirdos writing fiction.
A stenographer is not a journalist, despite the protests of the ideologically motivated corporate media hacks who claim otherwise. Frankly, granting them the unearned title of stenographer is an affront to real stenographers… what they really are is NPCs being programmed to deliver a script.
“it’s “exceedingly rare” for federal agents to search the home of a reporter…. In typical leak investigations, a reporter is not a target for prosecution but can be viewed as an avenue for obtaining evidence against the person suspected of leaking information.”
Gee, I wonder who the Biden FBI was “really” investigating when they trashed James O’Keefe’s home looking for Ashley Biden’s diary that he had already turned down from a source who came to him with it?
“ at an undisclosed contracting company” They should name the company so that other prospective employers can decide if they want work with a company that can’t do a proper security screening of their employees