They should have gone to Mar Lago to find their missing classified documents. Do they not watch the news? /s

In all seriousness, it sounds like they're trying to stop another Snowden type leak.

The problem is that "classified materials" means whatever the government wants it to mean in this context. Is there a journalist you want to target for a particular reason? Just accuse them of handling classified information, which they don't ever have to produce to the public because it's "classified".

> In all seriousness, it sounds like they're trying to stop another Snowden type leak.

In what way is what she was doing similar to Snowden? Snowden was a huge bombshell, with droves of material, proving what a lot of people suspected was happening, but had no proof.

This journalist seems to have been receiving a ton of "small leaks", of improper firings and a lot of other federal misbehavior, but all within the US, and all with things we already knew was happening.

So rather than "one big sea of bad", she was investigating "a thousand small cuts of bad" across thousands of people who had evidence.

Snowden leaks had global implications that changed relationships between countries, while this seems mostly internal to the US.

Or intimidate a member of the press that isn't "bending the knee" to them.

>In all seriousness, it sounds like they're trying to stop another Snowden type leak.

I bet it's the recipe for the military-grade copium some people are on