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The FBI connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026) searched the location of a Washington Post writer who has written astir U.S. national occupation cuts, successful a determination the paper described arsenic “highly antithetic and aggressive.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the hunt was portion of an probe into an alleged leak from the Pentagon, which has introduced caller restrictive media policies nether President Donald Trump.
Ms. Bondi said the writer “was obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked accusation from a Pentagon contractor” and that the hunt warrant was executed aft a petition from the Defence Department.
The Post named the newsman arsenic Hannah Natanson and said national agents seized a enactment laptop, a idiosyncratic laptop, her telephone and a ticker from her location successful Virginia, extracurricular Washington.
Agents told Ms. Natanson she is not the absorption of the probe.
Pentagon strategy head arrested
The insubstantial reported that instrumentality enforcement was investigating Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a strategy head with top-level information clearance who is accused of taking location quality documents recovered successful his lunchbox and his basement.
Mr. Perez-Lugones, who served successful the U.S. Navy earlier moving arsenic a Pentagon contractor, was arrested past week successful Maryland, according to tribunal documents that bash not notation immoderate interaction with journalists.
“The leaker is presently down bars,” Ms. Bondi said connected societal media. “The Trump Administration volition not tolerate amerciable leaks of classified accusation that, erstwhile reported, airs a sedate hazard to our Nation’s nationalist security.”
In December, Ms. Natanson wrote however she posted her unafraid telephone fig connected an online forum for authorities workers and galore contacted her astir their experiences of extremist cutbacks and argumentation changes successful Mr. Trump’s 2nd term.
The Defence Department past twelvemonth restricted media entree wrong the Pentagon, forced immoderate outlets to vacate offices successful the gathering and drastically reduced the fig of briefings for journalists.
American and planetary quality outlets, including The New York Times, AP, AFP and Fox News declined to motion the caller media rules and were stripped of their property entree credentials.
