True or False: Before the Hannah Natanson raid, the Justice Department had never executed a search warrant at a reporter's home in a national security leak case.

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True. According to Gabe Rottman of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Justice Department had "never executed a search warrant at the home of a reporter in a national security leak case" until the Natanson raid. This makes the January 14, 2026 action unprecedented. While DOJ has used subpoenas and obtained phone records from third parties in leak investigations, physically searching a journalist's home and seizing devices marked a sharp escalation. The Reporters Committee called it "a tremendous escalation in the administration's intrusions into the independence of the press."

True or False: Before the Hannah Natanson raid, the Justice Department had never executed a search warrant at a reporter's home in a national security leak case.

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