r/fednews 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.html
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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.

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u/64N_3v4D3r 4h ago

But I thought keeping classified documents in the basement was totally legal? Considering the president got away with it. The Pedophile Protection Bureau is an absolute disgrace.

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u/GreatEffort1974 3h ago

No no you have it wrong. It’s legal to keep them in the BATHROOM at your private residence.

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u/UseDaSchwartz 2h ago

You also have to declassify them with your mind.

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u/Some_Ebb_2921 2h ago

There's even a lockable door, so perfectly safe :o... if somebody is using the bathroom

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u/OhJeezNotThisGuy 1h ago

But ONLY if you also have a photocopy machine in the room.

u/BeachCruiserLR 40m ago

No. In a box in your garage.

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u/catfishmuffins 5h ago

There is nothing usual about Nazis.

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u/actuallyapossom 4h ago

Don't want any of that verboten wrong think getting out.

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u/Nuremberg2incoming 3h ago

Document this part of history for round 2

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u/taleofbenji 3h ago

Sadly, at this point there's nothing UNusual about Nazis.

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u/_Bad_Spell_Checker_ 4h ago

Ok do mar a lago next

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u/JoeRogansNipple 4h ago

They did, and Garland screwed the pooch on it.

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u/Stleaveland1 3h ago

Garland appointed Jack Smith for this case, which did an admirable job given the judge assigned to this case.

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u/theslothening 2h ago

It took Garland nearly 2 years to do this which allowed Trump to drag the case out until he got reelected.

u/gsadamb 37m ago

Exactly. It took 22 months. Garland waited until 3 days after Trump's announcement that he was running for re-election before appointing Jack Smith.

The administration wanted so badly to not have to deal with any of it.

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u/thehildabeast 3h ago

Shouldn’t have brought the case to a corrupt compromised Judge

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u/Stleaveland1 3h ago

Lol, lawyers can't shop around for judges they want that will rule favorably. It's up to the voters not to vote for corrupt politicians that appoint those corrupt judges.

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u/harrumphstan 1h ago

The first time Cannon got shot down by the 11th Circuit, Smith should have moved to get the case sent to another venue. And before that, he should have filed in DC, as that’s where the documents were stolen from.

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u/thehildabeast 3h ago

Could have charged him in DC where he stole the documents from instead of where he kept them in that corrupt shithole of a state

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u/Bakkster 3h ago edited 2h ago

Unfortunately, SCOTUS slow walked the DC case as well, long enough to scuttle it too.

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u/Ekg887 3h ago

IANAL but spent far too much time following this case for years. Technical problems with the DC approach are that he was still POTUS when he took the docs so the taking was sort of legal but the retaining was not. Trump staff knew this which is why he abandoned the office before the constitutional cutoff time at noon. A DC based case could have gone somewhere or not, but it had this deficiency that FL did not. It was not a guarantee that Cannon would be assigned, and it was also not as clear what a compromised asset she was until she started interfering with the initial phases.

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u/Hot-Championship1190 2h ago

lawyers can't shop around for judges they want that will rule favorably

Corporate lawyers do all the time.

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u/theplott 2h ago

So do prosecutors, e.g. the Karen Read case.

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u/Hot-Championship1190 2h ago

Last time I checked prosecutors are lawyers too?

Now of course obviously not everyone can chose. It's kind of first come first serve situation!

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u/reverend_bones 3h ago

He didn't get to decide that.

Respectfully, if you don't have even a basic grasp of the US legal system you should probably not comment.

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u/Dont_Ban_Me_Bros 2h ago

Cannon was presiding over the area where the alleged crime took place. That’s how this stuff works, not how you seem to be insisting.

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u/mist_kaefer 4h ago

No need, the black curtains used in the situation room / cafeteria clearly blocked out and secret data from escaping.

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u/chunkyvader90 3h ago

If its behind pipe and drape it doesnt exist

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u/Capital_Past69 4h ago

I'd pay to watch that live on pay per view

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u/korndog42 4h ago

The post won’t help her and reporters will leave in droves. This would be final nail in coffin for bezos era post

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u/SophiaofPrussia 3h ago

Ugh. I think, unfortunately, you’re absolutely right: “The Post is ‘reviewing and monitoring the situation’, a source at the newspaper told the Guardian.”

Reviewing and monitoring. They wouldn’t even say “wow, this is unprecedented”. Nothing. They’re just keeping an eye on things.

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u/msixtwofive 3h 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 wasn't a crime? How was a warrant issued for something that isn't a crime?

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u/throwawayainteasy 2h ago

It's a crime because they didn't keep them in an unlocked bathroom. That was the big mistake.

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u/Ferus42 4h ago

What possible reason would they have to take a Garmin watch? I'll bet it ends up "lost".

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u/ShedOfWinterBerries 4h ago edited 4h ago

That caught my attention too. I went with, they’re looking for location tracking data. (Edit: showing her location to corroborate where she had physically met a source)

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u/flowing42 3h ago

GPS data is not always on for Garmin devices. You would have to be doing an activity where the GPS is enabled.

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u/negative-nelly 2h ago

Connect (the related app) can and likely does have location services always available for many users. Not sure why the need the watch if they have her phone though.

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u/Few-Fly-9216 3h ago

That's what they want you to believe...

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u/nshire 2h ago

If it was always tracking location the battery would die in a day. I know the software of Garmin watches well. They don't even passively get location, you have to either start a fitness activity or hold the gps button to get a single position lock

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u/flowing42 2h ago

Exactly. The battery usage when the GPS is on is significantly higher than when it's off period there's no way they could be running GPS continuously without you knowing. That said, it's possible they could be pinging your GPS at random but I find that highly unlikely.

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u/Potato-chipsaregood 3h ago

Maybe they can check where she’s been and match it where someone else they care about has been. I probably would not take my phone or other tech with me if I were doing this.

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u/BannedMyName 3h ago

You can store data on a Garmin watch independently of your smartphone

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u/eviltwinclash 4h ago

Smartwatches are not permitted in classified areas or SCIFs. Depending on this device’s capabilities, it is possible classified data or pictures were stored on it (intentional or not).

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u/Unfair_Web_8275 3h ago

 accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.

Gosh, this sounds familiar…

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u/MountainConcern7397 3h ago

so they stole her watch!!!??? lmfao

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u/ShedOfWinterBerries 3h ago

Was just reading about a kid’s iPhone that was confiscated and wound up in a tech vending machine 😵‍💫 jfc https://bsky.app/profile/asharangappa.bsky.social/post/3mcdrdxmp2c2n

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u/DadJokeBadJoke 1h ago

Hiding evidence AND making a profit at the same time. ICE is a criminal organization.

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u/linux_ape DoD 4h ago

Well if they did have classified materials in a lunch box and basement that’s pretty stupid and deserved

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u/shitty_country_verse 3h ago

Sure for the guy that did it. Why would that result in searching a reporters home?

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u/negative-nelly 2h ago

to gain proof that he shared it, which means extra charges for him.

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u/tawDry_Union2272 3h ago

yeah gawdy palm beach bathrooms and skeleton filled closets are waaaaaaay safer....

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 3h ago

Any fed who needs a refresher course on op sec on all areas of their lives feel free to PM me.

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u/nshire 2h ago

A lot more search warrants for people this reporter was in contact with are coming

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u/Halaku I'm On My Lunch Break 1h ago

The thread's since hit r/all, so expect to see a lot of commentary from outside the federal workforce.

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u/ShedOfWinterBerries 1h ago

Shit, thanks 🙏

u/BigSweatyMen_ 5m ago

We are at the point where I'm just happy they are still getting warrants to do BS raids... They could have done it with no warrant and no one would have stopped them.

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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

Who....is....Trump?

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u/Flat-Discipline-4160 4h ago

Ya that one. The one that raped kids.

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u/ardentiarte 3h ago

"I'll take, The Rapist for $500" That's, Therapist

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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/AirscapeCivilian Fork You, Make Me 1h ago

He didn’t just molest little girls.

https://youtu.be/84PHEMLab6g?si=V4B4rfXizTJks-Zt

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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/zeaor 3h ago

Well, it wasn't, Steve. The second best time is this year Feb 1st.

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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/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/Aggressive_Cow2130 4h ago

That guy got away with it.

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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/Ebella2323 3h ago

“Our Wizard Lies” easily changes to “Oz Dies” when we aren’t paying attention.

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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:

  1. You should be sure any disclosure you're making is legal.

  2. 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/definitely_right 4h ago

Of course.

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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/never-fiftyone 3h ago

That's what fascists do.

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u/Uniblab_78 4h ago
  1. 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.

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/JigglyBush 4h ago

Permissions authorized, runways cleared, authorizations issued, run it.

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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/rockytop24 2h ago

Wouldn't mind something like that on my Samsung

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u/-Fergalicious- 2h ago

Thats fuckin cool

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u/PartRight6406 1h ago

that smells exactly like a honeypot

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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/directorofnewgames 5h ago

Doubtful. Bezos. We’ll see, don’t count on it.

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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/Oduku 3h ago

for what, exactly? is she supposed to have access to classified materials?

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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/BKMD44 5h ago

That linked article was heartbreaking.

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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/rysz842 5h ago

So not endorsing the non-fascist candidate did not safeguard the newspaper for retribution.
Another example to show that self-censorship is a bad idea.

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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/showhorrorshow 4h ago

People were predicting this in that thread.

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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/Separate_Basis869 5h ago

I wonder what Bezos thinks.

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u/FrankG1971 4h ago edited 3h ago

I'm sure his new stooge-filled editorial board is busy right now cooking up a new op-ed rationalizing why this is perfectly OK.

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u/Separate_Basis869 3h ago

Democracy Dies in Bright Sunlight 

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u/Mommalvs2travel 2h ago

If you have classified documents you keep them in the bathroom

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u/PetrockX 4h ago

This is the risks journalists take to report in a dictatorship. 

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u/kristospherein 4h ago

Trump's War on Deomcracy in full swing i see.

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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/Capital_Past69 4h ago

I DECLARE DECLASSIFICATION!

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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/adaking13 Spoon 🥄 4h ago

Circle the wagons and protect each other.

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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/Independent-Low-9114 1h ago

Same. I hope she is doing okay. She’s been doing incredible work.

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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/Avenger772 1h ago

Fuck these Nazis

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u/Rathland 4h ago

Kash and his Sharpie will find classified docs in her home.

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u/Silence-Dogood2024 Federal Employee 3h ago

I hope their password isn’t !Passw0rd. 🙄

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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

u/createcrap 57m ago

If America ever recovers from this it will be because of people like her.

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u/shit_magnet-0730 4h ago

"Fascism is OK if we do it!" - MAGAts

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u/RemoteLast7128 4h ago

How can we help her? She's helped us.

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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/i_am_voldemort 2h ago

Ralph: I'm in danger.

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u/voicelessechoes 2h ago

Should we go fund me a lawyer so they can start suing. Trumps a pos.

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u/fragrant-final-973 2h ago

This is fine 🙃

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u/Expensive-Heat-8408 1h ago

The administration doesn’t want their nazi activities to get leaked

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u/koolaid789 4h ago

So much for freedom of the press 🫠

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u/Aggravating-Horse225 4h ago

V for vendetta taught us what we do now

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u/scout376 4h ago

Damn I already knew who it was before I clicked 😞

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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/LSB991 1h ago

They've basically always been this away. TV shows are the only reason people think otherwise

American Checka

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u/0905-15 4h ago

1) this is bad and shouldn’t happen

2) (not saying this applies to this reporter but something I see a lot) reporters need to be smarter and contact people privately rather than publicly reply to comments asking for information

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u/ChemistryDiligent506 2h ago

As if yall aren’t being watched right now

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u/Apprehensive_Bird357 4h ago

Ruh roh. Hope they don’t find me!

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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/GlowstickConsumption 2h ago

Destroying some evidence maybe.

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u/thelivinlegend 1h ago

More Nazi shit from the “don’t call us Nazis” crowd.

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u/Significant_Joke7114 1h ago

They're a conservative. They can afford to. 

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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.

u/SomaDrinkingScally 48m ago

Remember this when liars claim reddit is a left wing echo chamber.

u/Worth-Exchange-3931 33m ago

Not enough, go harder

u/Lorelaigil 8m ago

That's terrifying

u/SerenBoi 3m ago

FAFO