The raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is deeply troubling.
When the government stomps on some once-inviolable right, it may be carrying out the next step in a concerted plan, or it may just be stumbling clumsily. The proper response in these moments is not to wax hysterical, but instead to draw clear moral lines. That is especially true for powerful people with the ability to make themselves heard.
This morning, FBI agents searched the home of the Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson and seized her devices, allegedly as part of a leak investigation targeting sources she had covered.
