The FBI searched Washington Post (WaPo) reporter Hannah Natanson’s home and devices on Wednesday as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of sharing government secrets, according to multiple reports.

Natanson, who covers the Trump administration’s reshaping of the federal government for the WaPo, had her phone and a Garmin watch seized from her Virginia home, the outlet reported. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department would resume searching reporters’ phones to find alleged leakers of government information, according to an internal memo published in 2025, the WaPo reported.

Natanson recently published a piece on her newfound sources, with a college reportedly calling her “the federal government whisperer.” She also was a part of a team of WaPo journalists awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

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