The FBI has searched the home of a Washington Post reporter who was covering the Trump administration’s firings of federal employees.
The search was part of an investigation into the possible sharing of classified documents, the newspaper reported.
Agents took the rare step of searching the Virginia home of Hannah Natanson on Wednesday, seizing her phone, two laptops, and a Garmin watch.
It was not immediately clear what sensitive information prompted the search, but investigators told Natanson that she is not the target of the probe, according to The Post.
The newspaper’s reporting of the incident characterized the search of its reporter’s home as “highly unusual and aggressive.”
Natanson has spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s reshaping of the government and in December 2025, wrote a first-person account of how she has spoken with federal employees to learn of their experiences.
In one of the messages she received from a Defense Department staffer, they told her: “I understand the risks. But getting the truth and facts out is so much more important.”
“I’d never thought I’d be leaking info like this,” another Justice Department worker told Natanson, according to her account.
This is a developing story
