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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Michael Kunzelman

Judge blocks DOJ from ‘wholesale’ search of Washington Post reporter’s seized devices

Federal authorities are barred from conducting an “unsupervised, wholesale search” of electronic devices that they seized from a Washington Post reporter’s Virginia home, a magistrate judge ruled Tuesday.

The feds seized the devices while investigating allegations that a Pentagon contractor illegally leaked classified information to the journalist.

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