Agents with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided the home of a Washington Post reporter this week as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of leaking classified information, officials said.
In a post on X, US Attorney General Pam Bondi said agents had searched the home of a journalist who allegedly "was obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor".
Bondi said the contractor had been arrested.
The Washington Post identified the reporter to the BBC as Hannah Natanson, who has covered how President Donald Trump's administration has drastically reduced and reshaped the federal workforce.
Natanson was at her home in Virginia on Wednesday when federal agents came to search her home, according to the Washington Post. They took her phone, a work and personal computer and a Garmin watch, the outlet said.
