A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily declined to allow the FBI to examine electronics it seized from a Washington Post reporter’s home.
U.S. Magistrate Judge William B. Porter ruled the agency is permitted to keep Hannah Natanson’s two phones, two laptops, a recorder, a portable hard drive, and a Garmin watch that it seized from her residence last week. However, the FBI is not allowed to review the items, Porter wrote in a two-page ruling filed in federal district court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The FBI is not permitted to investigate the electronics until at least early next month, when a hearing is scheduled on the case. The agency obtained them last week by executing a search warrant. It sought to investigate the items
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