Journalists and press-freedom advocates condemned the extraordinary federal search of a Washington Post reporter’s home stemming from allegations from the Trump administration that she obtained classified information from a source.

FBI agents executed a search warrant at the home of Hannah Natanson as part of an investigation into Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a Maryland system administrator. According to the Post, the affidavit claimed that Perez-Lugones has been accused of using his top-secret security clearance to access classified intelligence reports and taking them home, with secret reports being discovered in his basement and even his lunch box.

NBC News reports that Perez-Lugones is a U.S. citizen and Navy veteran, and that he made his first court appearance last Friday in the U.S. District Court of Maryland. Per the criminal complaint, he is being charged with “unlawful retention of national defense information.” An FBI official told Politico that Perez-Lugones was “actively communicating with the........

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