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    FBI fights leaks by seizing Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops, and watch | FBI searches home and devices of reporter who has over 1,100 government contacts.


    FBI fights leaks by seizing Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops, and watch | FBI searches home and devices of reporter who has over 1,100 government contacts.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/fbi-fights-leaks-by-seizing-washington-post-reporters-phone-laptops-and-watch/

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    34 Comments

    1. Cautious-Progress876 on

      Nice to see we have skipped forward to the Gestapo harassing journalists and violating their rights.

    6. celtic1888 on

      I’m sure this would all happen under a Harris presidency

      Good thing Bezos didn’t want to endorse a candidate …. but when did he ever give a shit about his employees well being or journalism

    7. DaarthSpawn on

      Turn off mobile devices prior to surrendering them. It makes brute force password cracking and decryption much more difficult. You’re playing for time, they’ll eventually get in. But you’ll have a longer time frame to go to trial and/or stall.

    10. promiscuous_horse on

      God it’s kind of embarrassing that America and can’t even be original with being fascists

    12. jh937hfiu3hrhv9 on

      Another Gestapo shake down. Nobody is representing the citizens. This is why the second amendment was created.

    14. notPabst404 on

      > The search warrant said the probe’s target is “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,” the Post article said.

      So they searched a random reporters house for an unrelated person who doesn’t even work for the same company??? This sounds like it could be a big payout for Natanson.

    17. jojohohanon on

      > … , 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,”

      oh no. That’s why he’s in trouble. He should have stored them in a bathroom in a country club. That’s proven to cause zero upset with government agencies.

    18. Demonokuma on

      Maybe go after the dude that keeps leaking shit to journalists because he keeps adding them to group chats. OMG is that why they did that?! Actually they don’t even coverup lies anymore they just tell you.

    19. Melt_More_Ice on

      The fbi has always been corrupt. Hoover needed dirt on everyone so he could continue being a pedo.

    20. Navarro480 on

      So we just cool with this or what????? I remember I used to deal the don’t tread on me flags on the back of trucks and they have disappeared. All the 2A going Jo kamikaze types just silent. Weird

    21. wasted_moment on

      Well, that’s one way to stop all the bs. If fox news were to collapse today, somehow, someway, that’s a major blow to all the bs being spewed by a true agitator. They don’t care about news, they only care about clickbait, ragebait, and eye snatching headlines that draw viewers to all of it’s media base. It’s their money maker.

    24. 0ver9000Chainz on

      They’ll investigate this reporter, but not a man murdering a woman in broad daylight?

    27. Leather-Map-8138 on

      That’s illegal search and seizure. Whomever ordered that should be charged with a criminal act in 2029.

    29. Individual-Result777 on

      The truth is not the FBI’s motivation, they are paid by us but work for something else. If they cant give us this truth, maybe its time to stop paying them. What other reason was it explained to the public as to why we needed an FBI in the first place?

    32. danielbgoo on

      This is a batshit headline for “fascist government arrests reporter for reporting news.”

    33. compassrosette on

      “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

      –George Orwell, 1984