The order issued by judge James Boasberg imposes on federal agencies, whose bosses participated in the chat, The obligation to store all messages sent via Signala in the period from 11 to 15 March,.
It is about the time when the editor -in -chief of “The Atlantic” documented the activity in the conversation.
US attack on Huti. The court ordered the knowledge of the chat
Meanwhile, the lawyer of the administration of Donald Trump announced that federal agencies are already working on Determining which entries have not yet been deleted and may be maintained.
American OVERSIGHT, a government billing group, sued on Tuesday federal agencies involved in chat, claiming that the use of Signal, which enables automatic removal of messages after a certain timeviolates the federal law regarding the storage of documentation.
– We are grateful for the judicial bench decision to suspend further destruction of these key documents. Society has the right to know how decisions regarding war and national security are made, and The responsibility does not disappear just because the message has been set to automatic removal – said Chukwu Chukwu, temporary executive director of American Oversight in a statement.
The editor -in -chief of “The Atlantic” Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to the group on the Signal messenger, where American officials, including Defense Secretary of Pete HegeSth, US Vice President JD Vance and Mike Waltzthey discussed the attack on Yemen from March 15.
Goldberg revealed a slip -up of the White House only in an article published on Monday, March 24, calling global scandal and questioning the competences of Donald Trump's administration.
After all, some lawyers, specializing in national security, even suggested that Waltz, who added Goldberg to the conversation, He could have violated the act on espionagecoordinating the plans of “National Defense” in such a careless way.
The blushes of the case are also given by the fact that Waltz and Rubio have loudly criticized the former secretary of State Hillary Clinton for using a private e-mail server to handle government matters.
The authenticity of the message, about which Goldberg wrote, was confirmed by the spokesman of the US National Security Council Brian Hughes, who announced that Checking how an outsidor was added to the chat by accident.
US scandal. Republicans and Democrats demand investigation
Tym -ranking politicians of Republicans and Democrats, sitting on the US Senate Armed Forces Committee announced on Thursday that They asked the Pentagon to examine the use of the Signal application by the administration of Donald Trump To discuss sensitive plans to attack Huti.
In a letter to Steven Stebbins, acting as a general inspector in the Department of Defense, Republican Senator Roger Wicker and Senator Jack Reed from the Democratic Party asked for Investigation and assessment of facts about Signal chat and “compliance with policy” regarding the provision of sensitive information.
Stebbins' office has announced that he was analyzing the letter but refused to comment further.