The judge said he will independently review the contents of the reporter’s phone

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Officials from the Justice Department have indicated their intention to review the ruling

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A magistrate judge has barred federal authorities from conducting an unsupervised, wholesale search of electronic devices that they seized from a Washington Post reporter’s Virginia home while investigating allegations that a Pentagon contractor illegally leaked classified information to the journalist

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