Why the FBI’s raid on a Washington Post reporter crosses a dangerous line
Just when you think you’ve seen it all. Just when you think the Trump administration cannot go any further in harassing the press and threatening the First Amendment. Just when you think there are some parts of our democracy so sacred that even the Trump administration will respect them.
Just when you think there’s a line they won’t cross, sure enough, President Donald Trump and his administration prove none of the above is true.
In an extraordinary and damaging step on Wednesday, the FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter as part of an investigation into a government contractor’s handling of classified material. Not only did the FBI execute a search warrant to enter the Virginia home of Post reporter Hannah Natanson, but they also seized her phone and two laptops — one of which was issued by the Post and another that was her own personal computer. They also took her Garmin watch.
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