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Conservative investigative journalist Audrey Hudson says that her reporting notes were taken during a search of her home by the Department of Homeland Security and Maryland police. Hudson's husband, Paul Flanagan, is legally prohibited from owning a gun, and cops searched their home in Shady Side, Maryland for firearms in the early morning of August 6, the Daily Caller's Alex Pappas reports. Hudson is now afraid her sources have been compromised, and suggests she's being punished for her reporting. The Coast Guard says it's because she had original government documents.

"They took my notes without my knowledge and without legal authority to do so," Hudson told the Daily Caller. "The search warrant they presented said nothing about walking out of here with a single sheet of paper." The Daily Caller says Hudson produced a photo showing "the stack of file folders in a bag marked 'evidence/property.'" The site also obtained a copy of the search warrant:

The document notes that her husband, Paul Flanagan, was found guilty in 1986 to resisting arrest in Prince George’s County. The warrant called for police to search the residence they share and seize all weapons and ammunition because he is prohibited under the law from possessing firearms.

So why does Hudson think she was the real target of the raid? Hudson once worked for the conservative Washington Times, and Newsmax, and the Colorado Observer. She told the Daily Caller that an investigator with the Coast Guard Investigative Service, Miguel Bosch, asked her of she was the reporter who'd written articles for the Washington Times critical of arm marshals. Then, on September 10, Bosch told her that five files with interview notes were taken during the raid. Those files had the names of government sources, and "were used to expose how the Federal Air Marshal Service had lied to Congress about the number of airline flights there were actually protecting against another terrorist attack," Hudson says. She says Bosch said the files had to be run by the TSA to make sure it was "legitimate" for her to have them. Bosch would not give the Daily Caller a comment.