A federal judge is holding a hearing on Thursday on the use of the Trump administration messaging application, after the senior national security officials used the application to discuss military attacks in Yemen as they were carried out earlier this month.
The American district judge James Boasberg, who also supervises the case involving the deportation of the administration of alleged members of migrant gangs under the Alien enemies law, was assigned to the case of the signal after the transparency group of the American Superight Government filed a federal demand that affirms the use of the signal viola the federal law that governs the preservation of the government’s records.
The Lawsuit – Which Names Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the National Archives as Defandants – Asks a Federal Guute to declare the use of signal a signal of signal a Order The Cabinet Members to Preserve The Records Immedialy, As Messages Within Signal Can Be Set To Delete Automatically, In Violation of Government Record-Keeping Requirements.
Boasberg at the beginning of this month temporarily blocked the use of President Donald Trump of the Alien Enemies Law to deport more than 200 alleged gang members to El Salvador without due process, which led the White House to ask for its dismissal and publicly attack it as a “Democratic activist” and a “left left radical”.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth talks to the media when he reaches the joint base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu on March 24, 2025.
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The use of the chat of the signal group was revealed Monday by the chief editor of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, who said that he was unnoticed to the chat when the senior national security officials, including Hegseth and the national security advisor Mike Waltz, were discussing the military operation.
President Trump and other senior administration officials have minimized the use of the signal to discuss the attack, saying that the classified information was not shared in the chat, despite the exchange, including information on the weapons systems that are used and the time of strikes.
