Officials were crisscrossing the world as they sent and received sensitive messages on Signal about an imminent U.S. attack on Yemen.
Judge James Boasberg ordered all Signal chats linked to a planned military strike in Yemen preserved after American Oversight filed a records lawsuit.
Trump officials are scrambling to respond to the Signal group chat scandal, claiming that no classified information was actually shared in the group. In response, The Atlantic has published more of the messages, since apparently that's fine.
The nonprofit American Oversight sued Trump Cabinet members to force them to preserve Signal messages that could otherwise be automatically deleted.
The information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed in the Signal chat of top Trump national security officials was highly classified at the time he wrote it, especially because the operation had not even started yet,
The Atlantic has published the texts from a Signal group chat that discussed U.S. military plans for strikes in Yemen after some Trump administration officials denied classified information was shared.
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Trump's senior Cabinet members have struggled to explain how such details ended up on an unclassified Signal chat.
Signal is a messaging app. You download it to your iOS or Android device, link your phone number, and you’re ready to go — just like other services like WhatsApp or Telegram. The thing that makes Signal different is its emphasis on privacy.
Senior officials in the Trump administration are under fire after inadvertently sharing secret war plans with a reporter via a Signal group chat.