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Aaron Schaffer
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NEW: Judge blocks DOJ from searching reporter Hannah Natanson's seized devices, says court will review them. The judge also said a DOJ filter team's search of work-product would be "the equivalent of leaving the government’s fox in charge of the Washington Post’s henhouse" wapo.st/4kR9c7P

wapo.stJudge says government may not search devices seized from Post reporterA federal judge in Virginia denied the Justice Department’s request to search a Washington Post reporter’s devices in a national security leak probe.

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Aaron Schaffer
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The judge also said prosecutors' failure to inform him about the Privacy Protection Act of 1980 before he approved the warrant in the case “has seriously undermined the Court’s confidence in the government’s disclosures in this proceeding” wapo.st/4kR9c7P Opinion: washingtonpost.com/documents/82...

wapo.stJudge says government may not search devices seized from Post reporterA federal judge in Virginia denied the Justice Department’s request to search a Washington Post reporter’s devices in a national security leak probe.