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   Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 09:08:34 JST Nonilex

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   A federal judge in Virginia rejected DOJ’s request to search through a #WashingtonPost reporter’s electronic devices as part of a national security #leak investigation, ruling that the court would instead be responsible for conducting the search.
   The Tuesday ruling suggested that Magistrate Judge William Porter did not trust the #Trump admin to conduct a narrow search of the devices & feared that such an examination could risk exposing more than 1,000 of the reporter’s govt #sources to the #DOJ.

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 09:08:35 JST Nonilex

     Judge says #government may not search devices seized from #WashingtonPost #reporter
     
The ruling suggested that the federal judge in Virginia did not #trust the government [not this one anyway] to conduct a narrow search of Hannah Natanson’s devices.

     #law #democracy #FreePress #journalism #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
     https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/24/washington-post-reporter-search/

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.