BREAKING FBI Searches Home of Washington Post Reporter

[selmaborntidefan]

No tyranny here at all, folks.....and don't insult my intelligence with "but classified documents."

Not anymore.
Not after 90 Proof Pete included a liberal reporter on an airstrike meeting.
Not after the Pedo-in-Chief got caught with them at his house.
Just don't.

FBI searches home of Washington Post reporter in classified documents probe, newspaper says

FBI agents searched a reporter’s home on Wednesday as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of sharing government secrets, the newspaper reported. The FBI searched journalist Hannah Natanson's devices and seized a phone and a Garmin watch at her Virginia home, the Post...

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FBI agents searched a reporter’s home on Wednesday as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of sharing government secrets, the newspaper reported.

The FBI searched journalist Hannah Natanson's devices and seized a phone and a Garmin watch at her Virginia home, the Post said.

An affidavit says the search was related to an investigation into a system administrator in Maryland who authorities allege took home classified reports, the newspaper reported. The man, Aurelio Perez-Lugones, was charged earlier this month with unlawful retention of national defense information, according to court papers.

 

[Huckleberry]

Even if you’re a mainstream media critic and have doubts about their accuracy and ethics, this (combined with other recent actions) should concern you. Unfortunately, freedom of the press doesn’t seem to be a big concern for a lot of conservatives/libertarians, especially if a so-called “liberal” media source is involved. And, frankly, some far left types are happy to see conservatives muzzled. All of them are misguided.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Even if you’re a mainstream media critic and have doubts about their accuracy and ethics, this (combined with other recent actions) should concern you. Unfortunately, freedom of the press doesn’t seem to be a big concern for a lot of conservatives/libertarians, especially if a so-called “liberal” media source is involved. And, frankly, some far left types are happy to see conservatives muzzled. All of them are misguided.

For all of my raging at the media - and God knows they've earned it - mine is borne of the FACT that a free society DEMANDS freedom of the press, freedom to question those in leadership, and another in the checks and balances that preserves freedom for all of us.

All politicians - from time to time - have complained about their treatment by the press and sometimes the complaint is legit and sometimes it's a distraction technique. (Yes folks - by everyone, including that nice Christian man Jimmy Carter).

I think the worst thing that came out of Watergate (as a consequence) socially is that Woodward and Bernstein got turned into celebrities - which inspired a bunch of people to realize, "I might only make $28K as a journalist" (Lewis Grizzard's salary in 1977 at the AJC), but I can make millions and go on "Donahue" if I can create a ruckus."



And a lot of the so-called righties would be condemning this if Barack Obama or Joe Biden or especially Hillary Clinton had sicked her FBI on Shepherd Smith.

 

[Bazza]

Guy's a Navy vet.......SMH........


"Investigators told Natanson that she is not the focus of the probe," the Post reported.

The contractor is Navy veteran Aurelio Perez-Lugones, who is a system administrator in Maryland and who has been charged with “unlawful retention of national defense information,” according to a criminal complaint filed Jan. 9 in the U.S. District Court for the District Court of Maryland.

Perez-Lugones, a Miami-born U.S. citizen who "possesses a Top Secret security clearance," made his first court appearance in the case last Friday, the complaint states.

The FBI has accused Perez-Lugones of searching databases containing classified information without authorization and either printing or taking screenshots of that material, according to the complaint.

That material that Perez-Lugones allegedly began collecting in October is described in the complaint as "related to a foreign country."

“Perez-Lugones had no need to know and was not authorized to search for, access, view, screenshot, or print any of this information,” the complaint states.

The FBI had been watching Perez-Lugones as recently as last week, doing surveillance of him while he was in a SCIFF, which is a secure room for handling top secret information, the complaint states.

Perez-Lugones was monitored logging in to systems. And the complaint includes a photo of him from January 6, leaving his workplace with a black bag.

Two days later, federal investigators searched Perez-Lugones' house in Laurel, Maryland and found a document marked "SECRET" in the basement, the complaint states.

"While searching Perez-Lugones' car, investigators located a lunch box in which a document was marked as SECRET," the complaint states. "One of more of these documents are related to national defense."

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