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
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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...
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AlsoL "The Court finds that seizing the totality of a reporter’s electronic work product, including tools essential to ongoing newsgathering, constitutes a restraint on the exercise of First Amendment rights" www.washingtonpost.com/documents/82...
👀 Interestingly, the judge also mentioned that "counsel from the highest levels of the DOJ participated in at least one" call with him, but the PPA was never mentioned www.washingtonpost.com/documents/82...