Judge orders stop to FBI search of devices seized from Washington Post reporter
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美国联邦法官今日下令政府停止搜查从《华盛顿邮报》记者处扣押的设备。此次搜查是联邦调查局为调查五角大楼承包商涉嫌泄密案件而进行，记者本人并非调查对象。《华盛顿邮报》已向法院提出动议，要求归还设备并暂停审查，理由是扣押数据大多与搜查令范围无关，且涉及受宪法保护的新闻材料及律师客户保密内容。法院将进一步审理是否允许恢复搜查或必须归还设备。
A federal judge today ordered the US government to stop searching devices seized from the house of a Washington Post reporter. It may be only a temporary reprieve for the Post and reporter Hannah Natanson, however. Further proceedings will be held on whether the search can resume or whether the government must return the devices.
Natanson herself isn't the subject of investigation, but the FBI executed a search warrant at her home and seized her work and personal devices last week as part of an investigation into alleged leaks by a Pentagon contractor. The Post filed a motion to force the return of the reporter's property, and a separate motion for a standstill order that would prevent review of the seized devices until the court rules on whether they must be returned.
"Almost none of the seized data is even potentially responsive to the warrant, which seeks only records received from or relating to a single government contractor," a Post court filing today said. "The seized data is core First Amendment-protected material, and some is protected by the attorney-client privilege."
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