Key Highlights
- The group’s attorneys wrote that “as of this writing, the affidavit purporting to justify that exceptional measure remains sealed in its entirety, alongside every other judicial record related to the warrant.
- The public is therefore left with no means to understand the government’s basis for seeking (and a federal court’s basis for approving) a search with dramatic implications for a free press and the constitutional rights of journalists.” Related Stories News Michele Austin Named President And Managing Director Of MPA-Canada Politics Federal Court Rejects Effort To Halt Gavin Newsom-Led Redrawing Of California Congressional Districts The search of Natanson’s home early Wednesday drew alarm from First Amendment groups, as Donald Trump‘s administration engages in an effort to find and, in some cases, prosecute leakers.
- Watch on Deadline The Post was told that Natanson was not the focus of the investigation.
- The Post reported that the warrant said that the investigation was of Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a system administrator who has a security clearance and is accused of retaining classified intelligence reports.” An arrest warrant was executed in his case on Jan.
- 9, according to court records.
