Federal agents executed a search warrant at the home of a Washington Post reporter as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally taking home classified documents, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.  I must be checked out.

     Bondi revealed on X that the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson was searched as part of a leak investigation. Natanson had been covering President Donald Trump’s transformation of the federal government. “This past week, at the request of the Department of War, the Department of Justice and FBI executed a search warrant at the home of a Washington Post journalist who was obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor,” she wrote.

     Natanson was at her home in Virginia when the search was conducted on her devices. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized her phone, a Garmin watch and two laptops, one being a Washington Post-issued laptop.  Investigators told Natanson that she is not the focus of the investigation, as the warrant said law enforcement was looking into Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a system administrator and an IT specialist for a government subcontractor in Maryland. He had top-secret security clearance and allegedly took home classified intelligence reports that were found in his lunchbox and basement, an FBI affidavit clarified.

     Additionally, an affidavit from an FBI special agent accompanying the complaint alleged that Perez-Lugones accessed databases “maintained by several Government agencies” to “view a classified intelligence report related to a foreign country.”