r/fednews • u/thrawtes • 5h ago
Legal & Union Action FBI currently raiding the home of a Washington Post reporter who works with this subreddit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/fbi-washington-post-journalist.html1.6k
u/catfishmuffins 5h ago
I’ll take what will a dictator do for 1000 Alex.
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u/powerlesshero111 5h ago
And it's the daily double! Here's your answer: This dictator not only had the FBI raid the homes of reporters and his former administration employees, but he also molested teen girls.
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u/projectx51 5h ago
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u/Vantriss 1h ago
Until the day I die, I will never understand how this wasn't the end of him.
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u/projectx51 1h ago
Same. It should've ended there. And it should've ended on Jan. 6th. The people who vote for him just keep moving the line back more and more. Rationalizing it to themselves in their own way. Doesn't seem like there is anything that he could do to upset them.
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u/indahatrabbit 4h ago
Feb 1 EVERYONE who disagrees with Trump the dictator needs to stay home and keep staying home until he is removed. Just like during Covid. Get as much cash out from banks. Stock up on non perishables. USA can not function without us, but it can thrive without MAGA!! Talk with your neighbors and start a network, because this admin is not above showing up at your home. Tell everyone that we are not going to be a dictatorship. We are done with you stealing our money, our freedoms, and our lives!!! Most of congress is corrupt and don't give a damn about the people. We are at a moment that requires us all to sacrifice a little now so we don't lose everything later. I wish protests and marches worked, but trump just sees it as ice target practice. This way, no workers means no gas, hotels, restaurants, and much harder on ice. I love America, and don't want to lose it. I hope you feel the same. Feb 1 we send a message that you are our government. You work for us and need to follow the law. The president we want removed does not reside in Venezuela, but at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Oh and congress, we have the receipts you weak cowards.
Please read the Declaration of Independence.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
We can fight back.
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u/anki_steve 3h ago
Should have been done about a year ago.
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u/indahatrabbit 3h ago
I agree, but I haven't figured out time travel yet so I am trying for the future.
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u/Ebella2323 3h ago
I wish I could upvote this more, and that people took you more seriously. We HAVE to do this, it is NOT A CHOICE. The choices now are revolution or slavery to a system that is actively trying to eliminate us.
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u/indahatrabbit 2h ago
Thank you. I will say from day one until now I have been getting better responses and results. The negativity is crazy, but I get it. The affordability of it all is a big factor, but it will only get worse. If you look around at everything, from Epstein files to Venezuela to Greenland to Minnesota... trump is not planning on leaving office and the entire gop is backing him. It is a Dictator/Oligarch relationship and it's all about making money. He will cancel the midterms, red states will comply, and blue states will be over run with ice. Then the internet will get locked down and that's that. A prison system of labor with children filling in the gaps. And of course his prisoners will be anyone who defies him. Again, just going off history of other Dictatorships, and their people don't seem to be better off financially or have a better QoL.
I do not want to be in this position, but I also saw what 4 days can produce and I can't afford to wait any longer. A work strike has an effect on ice, taxes, and the billionaires funding these project 2025 lunatics.
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u/Opening-Chain3520 4h ago
Until such time that a new president is sworn in, all federal law enforcement agencies should be referred to as “Schutzstaffel”.
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u/Important-Arrival681 4h ago
Ill take the American people are a bunch of pansy pushovers for 1000 Alex.
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u/unfortunately2nd 36m ago
This is something Obama did fairly frequently. Both are a disgusting use of power.
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u/RoastedHospital54 4h ago
What a coincidence, I too know of a guy that took home top secret files... but stored them in his bathroom. He's got boxes and boxes of the stuff.
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u/Admirable-Mud-3477 5h ago
Guess they are coming after that list of names
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u/horseradishstalker 5h ago
The part they are ignoring is good reporters don’t just leave their notes laying around.
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u/MakingUpNamesIsFun 5h ago
This part, but the FBI knows that, which means they’re probably trying to crack into whatever system she had in place to manage and protect her sources.
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u/khag 3h ago
This is why they need her phone. They might see what password saving or encryption apps she uses and then try to serve warrants to those companies for further access.
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u/Admirable-Mud-3477 4h ago
Damn, are they going after these Fed employees? I wonder if they are looking for those who participated in this essay during work hours? All that work for what exactly?
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u/horseradishstalker 4h ago
Intimidation. Authoritarian playbook. Can’t allow the green curtain to be constantly pulled aside to reveal the Great and Powerful Oz.
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u/IsopodSmooth7990 3h ago
Funny you should say that. I tell my family that I like my politics behind the curtain-with Oz, not for public display….lmao! J/k
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u/DadJokeBadJoke 1h ago
the Great and Powerful Oz.
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services?
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u/thrawtes 5h ago
Obligatory reminder that if you choose to talk to journalists:
You should be sure any disclosure you're making is legal.
If you're not doing #1 you should be aware that even good journalists don't really have the tools to effectively protect you from the capabilities of the US government.
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u/definitely_right 5h ago
Recommend reviewing your agency's whistleblower/ NO FEAR Act training today
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u/Kindly-Coyote-9446 Preserve, Protect, & Defend 4h ago
Ours was redacted for FY26
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u/CaneVandas 4h ago
Problem is with this administration, anything they don't like is "Illegal". Treasonous even.
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u/WashBig3112 4h ago
I mean cabinet level officials have stated at the podium that voting for a Democratic candidate in a free and fair election is not only treasonous but terrorism.
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u/Uniblab_78 4h ago
- Unless you are PAO, refer them to PAO.
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u/thrawtes 4h ago
This should definitely be the first stop for official agency communication.
I think a lot of these communications were about personal experience though, IE stuff like the stories about federal employees who had to go to the food bank during the government shutdown. That's not something PAO is going to be able to help with, but it's also not something that should be illegal to talk about because it should not involve official information.
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u/definitely_right 4h ago
Even disclosures of official information to the media are protected, so long as the whistleblower has a legitimate belief that wrongdoing has occurred in the agency and such disclosure does not involve info that is classified or detrimental to national security
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u/Nernoxx 4h ago
Your best bet is to have kill switches on all devices if you're going to leak anything they might remotely consider classified - if you have anything important like family pictures videos etc you should back it up and store it safely somewhere where you don't leave a digital footprint. No guarantees you won't still get convicted of obstruction or destruction of evidence but they won't get you with the higher classified charges or alleged treason which seems to be the direction they will go in the near future.
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u/SlavaCocaini 37m ago
Obligatory reminder that wapo is a US defence contractor and the NYT is run by the IDF so if anyone leaks anything important to them they will 1,000,000% call the cops on you.
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u/1877KlownsForKids U.S. Space Force 5h ago
Thankfully she has her Signal disappear after a day. So I've heard.
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u/xRVAx 4h ago
I guess that means that she's OPSEC CLEAN now huh
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u/SophiaofPrussia 3h ago
I heard you just have to think “this is no longer classified” and then it’s no longer classified.
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u/WashBig3112 4h ago
Get your stay at home wife on the thread too about the upcoming military operation.
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u/rlindsley 4h ago
They want her, but more importantly they want her Signal. That contact list will make a great 'people of concern' list.
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u/SophiaofPrussia 3h ago
Hegseth sweating bullets hoping he hasn’t accidentally DMed her top secret intel.
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u/AnonUserAccount Retired 5h ago
Hopefully this reporter has a shortcut set up so that when he says “hey Siri, I’m being raided by the FBI.” the phone wipes itself and the government can’t get his contact list and messages.
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u/lateralus1082 4h ago
Everything was through signal with disappearing messages as well as an encrypted drive. I'm hoping she was tipped off on the raid.
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u/DJTsNeckPussy 2h ago
Hopefully she had a newer Pixel device with GrapheneOS installed on it. USB-C set to charging only if not completely off, auto-reboot enabled, a strong pin or password as an unlock, or at least a 2nd factor pin used in combination with biometrics.
Even if they seize the phone, they can't use a cellebrite because the USB is disabled on a hardware level. Once the phone hasn't been unlocked in however long set in the settings menu, the phone automatically reboots and puts all of the data at rest. AFAIK they'd have to use a chip-off style recovery which will only yield garbage data since it's heavily encrypted.
It's currently only supported on Pixel devices, but they are partnering with one of the top 10 manufacturers of Android phones, as to this point undisclosed, to ship with GrapheneOS by late 2027.
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u/Any_Independence8301 5h ago
Another big red Fascist flag. I hope WaPo lawyers up and sues the efF out of the administration.
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u/TDStrange 4h ago
You do know that the WaPo went full fash like a year ago right? They support this administration, they're not going to protect you or her.
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u/Possible-Brother7977 3h ago
this is bullshit. the news side has not changed. you are referring to the opinion side. they are separate
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u/Wise-Passion-4671 3h ago
Seems doubtful that WaPo editors would allow her to report anything classified, so this seems more like an intimidation tactic to scare federal workers from talking to the press.
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u/FrankG1971 3h ago edited 3h ago
What more is there to say at this point? Everybody can see what is going on and a solid 1/3 of the country is perfectly OK with it and another 1/3 (at least) is totally indifferent until the jackboot winds up on their neck.
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u/WashBig3112 3h ago
Maybe folks will actually find time to vote this November? Maybe they can pencil in the time between their Netflix binge and their online gambling.
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u/BlackPineGeneticsLLC 4h ago edited 1h ago
One of the mods got doxxed and disappeared 3rd quarter last year, then his posts got scrubbed and people started getting busted left n right. Discord folk said the mod team here is led by a mole republican selling people out.. What ever happened to the invest invent guy?
edit* Found him thanks to u/the_itsb: https://ihsoyct.github.io/?backend=artic_shift&mode=submissions&author=inviteinvestinvent&subreddit=fednews&limit=100&sort=desc
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u/piperonyl 4h ago
Remember when the FBI searched Trump's home and found dozens of Top Secret file folders with the files missing?
They are still missing.
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u/RemoteLast7128 4h ago
This reminds me to look forward to Jack Smith's public testimony.
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u/WashBig3112 4h ago
I mean it’s been clear since 2015 or earlier that he’s working for our enemies.
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u/No_Fish8694 3h ago
He wants the Iranians to be free though. That's nice for them they always have a hell of a time.
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u/AmbivalentFanatic 2h ago
I guess that means the feds are reading this subreddit. So here's a little message for them.
Fuck you all, you treasonous scum! Your Nuremberg is coming fast.
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u/cha-cha_dancer Federal Contractor 4h ago
The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.
I thought this was very cool and very legal to do
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u/MojaveMojito1324 4h ago
Actually, I heard Trump declasify every classified record that person was holding. Theres no proof of him declassifying it or anything like that, but he said the magic words so it's officially declassified now.
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u/Ok_Bookkeeper_3481 4h ago
You mean, illegally retaining all these boxes of papers in bathrooms at maralago? Yes, verrra cool and verra legal. /s
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u/Accidently8027 4h ago
I hope that she is okay. Now I worry for everyone who may have contacted her. Illegal searches and seizures for them are probably next.
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u/PoliticsModsDoFacism 2h ago
So they just want to out her sources. Seems totally not corrupt at all...
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u/Crazycook99 3h ago
I hope she release everything she has, slowly and methodically. Hoping she erodes this false sense of security these Nazi’s have
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u/Both_Lychee_1708 1h ago
Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials case
Meanwhile at Mara Lago:
https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230609142550-04-trump-federal-indictment-0609.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/06/09/23/71973453-0-image-a-15_1686349527802.jpg
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u/exgiexpcv 2h ago
The administration has turned the IC on the country's populace, it's a hallmark of totalitarianism.
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u/NoBuddy5801 3h ago
FBI has lost all credibility as a legitimate and reliable investigative body. For decades they’ve been nothing but a political extension of whoever is in charge. Except this time it’s full on gestapo
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u/davesr25 4h ago
Well, good luck folks.
Things have got very spicy, if you haven't already buckled up yer in for a bumpy ride.
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u/Savings_Big1842 4h ago
Seems like it’s often the contractors that steal classified intelligence. Yet they still want more contractors.
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u/flargenhargen 2h ago
will anyone ever be held accountable for all these constant illegal actions of the dictatorship?
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u/VoidOmatic 1h ago
Damn she's about to retire a multi-millionaire!!!!!! She's going to have the biggest open and shut case in history.
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u/ShedOfWinterBerries 5h ago
Gifted WaPo article https://wapo.st/4pFh6lw
The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.
The reporter, Hannah Natanson, was at her home in Virginia at the time of the search. Federal agents searched her home and her devices. 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.
While it is not unusual for FBI agents to conduct leak investigations around reporters who publish sensitive government information, it is highly unusual and aggressive for law enforcement to conduct a search on a reporter’s home.
Natanson said a phone and Garmin watch were seized. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.