By Brian Stelter, Liam Reilly, CNN(CNN) — A federal judge has blocked the Justice Department from examining Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s phone and computers for the time being. “The government must preserve but must not review any of the materials that law enforcement seized… until the Court authorizes review of the materials by further order,” the magistrate judge wrote. Natanson’s devices were seized in an extraordinary pre-dawn FBI raid last week. Government seizures of reporter records are exceedingly rare in the US, and The Post immediately decried the action. The Post said the FBI took two phones, two laptops, a Garmin watch, a portable hard drive and a recording device.

Source: CNN January 21, 2026 19:43 UTC