‘Tip of the iceberg’: The FBI search of a reporter’s home has newsrooms bracing
- Posted on January 15, 2026
- By CNN
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‘Tip of the iceberg’: The FBI search of a reporter’s home has newsrooms bracing

Inside The Washington Post, the impact was immediate. Reporters called the search “incredibly disturbing” and unprecedented. Natanson met with Post lawyers and security experts, scrambled to line up her own outside legal counsel, and urged her colleagues to keep reporting.