Judge bars FBI from probing Washington Post reporter's electronics

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.