A lawsuit against the Minister of Defense, Pitt Hesseg, and other officials in his administration, was filed for the Signal scandal. It was submitted by a government control group after revelations about the use of the Signal application to discuss military attack plans to.
According to a report by Axios, American Oversight – Non -Government and Non -Profit – claims in its lawsuit that the conversation in the implementation accidentally included The Atlantic editor -in -chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, violating federal files on files.
The action
A lawsuit filed with a Federal Court of Washington names Pitt Hessegen and other senior officials, including National Intelligence Service Director, Touli Gabard, CIA Director John Ratclifis and Minister of Finance.
American Oversight said in a statement that it seeks to “recover the illegal deleted messages and prevent them from further destroying them”.
Five issues and a crime
“The law on federal archives requires federal officials to maintain communications related to official government affairs,” he said, adding: “The reported disclosure of sensitive military information in a group conversation of a Signal and a group of Signal.
Representatives of the Pentagon refused to comment, saying they were not discussing the ongoing court cases.
M. Waltz: We made a mistake
National Security Advisor Mike Walts said on Tuesday (25/3) that, saying to Fox News: “We made a mistake.”
He said that lessons were drawn and we no longer use the encrypted application.
US President D. Trump made it clear earlier on Tuesday that he did not intend to dismiss his national security adviser and later told Newsmax that “someone who was with Mike Waltz, who worked with Mike Waltz at the lower level, had a lower level.”
Both T. Gabard and J. Ratclifs filed before the Senate Information Committee on Tuesday that no classified information had been distributed during the conversation.
