Judge James Bomberg revealed Thursday at a hearing that will issue a temporary restriction order that prevents government employees from destroying messages exchanged through signal application, in a group to which A journalist was added.
A US federal judge said Thursday that he will order the Trump administration to preserve records of messages exchanged between the ups responsible on the Signal platform, including confidential plans for a military attack against the Huthis do Yemen.
Judge James Bomberg revealed Thursday at a hearing that will issue a temporary restriction order that prevents government employees from destroying messages exchanged through signal application, in a group to which who reported the case.
The court order was requested by a non -profit civil society organization, the
An administration lawyer cited by AP stated that the Government is already taking action to collect and store the messages.
White House minimized incident
The White House initially responded to the magazine article minimizing the incident and attacking the credibility of its director Jeffrey Goldberg, who reported being added to the group by Mike Waltz, White House National Security Counselor.
After the administration of Donald Trump insisted that nothing in the exchange of messages in the sign was confidential, the A new article containing almost the entire conversation, including parts that in a first article had not published for security reasons.
The new article reproduces Message Screen Captures by Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth with the precise time of planned attacks against the Huthis, Iemenite Rebel Group Allied from Iran, and the weapons used, all sent two hours before the attacks take place.
The magazine tells that it contacted the government officials, stating that the messages were not ultra -secret, to ask them if they agreed with the publication of more messages, more accurate than those referred to in the first article.
The White House opposed itself, indicated The Atlantic, which, however, published the essentials of messages, hiding only the name of an agent of the CIA.
“12:15-F-18 (first attack group),” the Pentagon head wrote to other group members on March 15, where they were also responsible for the Pentagon and the CIA (US Agency for External Secret Services).
Group included vice-president
The group also included Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, among other responsible.
Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, said on Wednesday that the Secretary of Defense “has to be fired immediately if he does not have the courage to recognize his mistake and fire.”
Also Democrat Tammy Duckworth, a member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, argued that “confidential information was clearly shared” and that Hegseth “disclosed it negligently.”
President Donald Trump defended his secretary of the defense of these dismissal requests, qualifying for “witch hunt” the case released by The Atlantic magazine.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, “is doing a great job, has nothing to do with it,” Trump said on Wednesday.
In his decision on Thursday, Boasberg limited the order to messages sent between 11 and 15 March in the group.
Judge asks for clarification on Monday
The judge also gave instructions to the government to provide him with a situation of situation on Monday.
Justice Department lawyer Amber Richer said she is still “verified that agencies have” from that message exchange.
“I’m glad we got a solution,” the judge said later.
American Oversight’s lawyers state in the judicial process that “use by the defendants of an unlawful commercial application, even for life or death issues, such as the planning of a military operation, leads to the inevitable inference that defendants must have used the signal to conduct other official government matters.”
