The judge moves to prevent Hegseth, Waltz and others from eliminating Houthi texts
Thursday a federal judge in Washington ordered several Trump administration officials who participated in a group chat chat that discussed the details of a pending attack in Yemen to preserve all the messages that exchanged on the app from 11 to 15 March.
The judge’s decision, James E. Boasberg, came in response to a case presented this week by a non -profit American guard group Sovenesight, accusing the National Security Team of Trump of violating the laws on the federal registers using Signal – a encrypted commercial communication platform – to talk about the attack on the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The order of Judge Boasberg, who is located at the Federal District Court of Washington, has applied to the best officials of the Administration, including the National Security Councilor of Trump, Michael Waltz; The defense secretary Pete Hegseth; Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence; and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
During an audition at the Federal District Court of Washington, judge Boasberg clarified that he had issued his order to be sure that none of the signal messages was lost, not because he had believed that the administration officials had done something wrong.
American Overyight, which often tries to remove information from the government pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, has accused the administration officials of violating the Federal Records Act, which requires the conservation of official communications by the agencies officials.
The revelation that the best officials of the Trump Administration not only discussed a specially suspended military strike on the signal, but also inadvertently invited a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic editor in the chat, shocked the national security factory. The cause intended by American abortion was in a certain sense a preventive measure to ensure that the complete record of what had been said in the group chat was not eliminated.
The Department of Justice, in a warehouse on Thursday afternoon, said that one of the participants in the group chat, Scott Besent, the secretary of the treasure, had already delivered the version of the messages that were on his phone.
In the same deposit, a Pentagon lawyer said he requested a complete copy of the chat from Mr. Hegseth, but it was not unclear if it had been delivered.
This is a development story and will be updated.
