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Story summary
- The U.S. Department of Justice did not inform a magistrate judge about the 1980 Privacy Protection Act when seeking a warrant to search a Washington Post reporter's home in a leak probe.
- Gabe Rottman of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press highlighted the omission and said it could have influenced the judge's warrant decision.
- The investigation concerns a Pentagon contractor allegedly leaking classified information.
